Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
madrasa is a noun meaning "Muslim schools in Bangladesh and Pakistan". It carries one recorded sense.
Muslim schools in Bangladesh and Pakistan
“the Pakistan government decided to close down madrasas that provided military training for their students”
“many madrasas in Bangladesh are supported with money from Saudi Arabia”
Bangladesh · Pakistan
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for madrasa come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.