casaba

See also: cãsãbã

English

Etymology

From Turkish Kasaba, a town in Turkey, now Turgutlu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈsɑː.bə/
• Rhymes: -ɑːbə

Noun

casaba (plural casabas)

1. A cultivar of the muskmelon (Cucumis melo), with bright yellow, wrinkled skin.
2. (usually in the plural, slang) The adult female breast.
   • 1993, Quantum Leap, season 5, episode 14, spoken by Al Calavicci (Dean Stockwell):

     Oh, well. She's got... great... casabas . […] Well, you know. Melons. […] Hoo-has? Honkers? Hooters? Headlights? Uh... tatas? Teeters? Tweeters? Tom-toms? Tetons? […] I'm trying to say it. Uh, meatballs. Mangoes. Cream pies. Cupcakes? Uh... bangers? Bouncers? Bulumbas? […] Bazongas? Breasts! I said it.

Synonyms

• (breast): See Thesaurus:breasts.

Anagrams

• cabasa, abacas

Asturian

Verb

casaba

1. first-person singular imperfect indicative of casar
2. third-person singular imperfect indicative of casar

Galician

Verb

casaba

1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of casar

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قصبه (kasaba), from Arabic قَصَبَة (qaṣaba).

Noun

casaba f (plural casabale)

1. (obsolete) casbah

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	casaba	casabaua		casabale	casabalele
genitive-dative	casabale	casabalei		casabale	casabalelor
vocative	casaba			casabalelor

References

• casaba in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Spanish

Verb

casaba

1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of casar