Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

kasba

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.17 in modern English

Syllables: kas-ba
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A neighbourhood of Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Etymology

Borrowed from Bengali কসবা (kosba), from Arabic قَصَبَة (qaṣaba). Doublet of casbah.

Origin

Source language: Arabic

Word Breakdown

Root: قَصَبَة

Questions

What does kasba mean?: A neighbourhood of Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Where does kasba come from?: It is traced to Arabic.

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