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casbá

Portuguese, noun/kazˈba/

casbá is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “casbah (the fortress in a city in North Africa or the Middle East)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does casbá mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininecasbah (the fortress in a city in North Africa or the Middle East)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of casbá

  • casbás plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce casbá?

  • Brazil /kazˈba/
  • /kaʒˈba/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to casbá

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is casbá in Portuguese?

casbá appears about once in every 83 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).