"Kaaba" meaning in English

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Proper name

IPA: /ˈkɑːbə/ Forms: the Kaaba [canonical]
Etymology: From Arabic كَعْبَة (kaʕba, “cube”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|ar|كَعْبَة||cube}} Arabic كَعْبَة (kaʕba, “cube”), {{root|en|ar|ك ع ب}} Head templates: {{en-proper noun|head=the Kaaba}} the Kaaba
  1. The nearly cubical stone temple in Mecca, the holiest place in Islam and site of the great hajj assembly Wikipedia link: en:Kaaba Categories (topical): Buildings, Islam Categories (place): Saudi Arabia Synonyms: Ka'ba, Kaʻba (english: stricter transliterations), Ka'aba [nonstandard, proscribed], Caaba, Cahaba, Qabah [archaic] Hypernyms: Masjid al-Haram (english: mosque including the Kaaba) Translations (cubical stone temple in Mecca): Qabeja (Albanian), الْكَعْبَة (al-kaʕba) [feminine] (Arabic), الْكَعْبَة الْمُشَرَّفَة (al-kaʕba l-mušarrafa) [feminine] (Arabic), Kəbə (Azerbaijani), Ҡәғбә (Qəğbə) (Bashkir), কাবা (kaba) (Bengali), খানে কাবা (khane kaba) (Bengali), কাবাঘর (kabaghor) (Bengali), Кааба (Kaaba) (Bulgarian), 克爾白 (Chinese Mandarin), 克尔白 (Kè'ěrbái) (Chinese Mandarin), 天房 (Tiānfáng) (Chinese Mandarin), Kâbe (Crimean Tatar), Ka'ba (Danish), Кагӏба (Kaʿba) (Dargwa), Ka'aba (Dutch), Kaabo (Esperanto), Kaaba (Estonian), Kaaba (Finnish), Ka’ba (French), Kaaba (German), કાબા (kābā) [masculine] (Gujarati), כַּעְבָּה (ka'ba) [feminine] (Hebrew), काबा (kābā) (Hindi), Kába (Hungarian), Kaba (Icelandic), Ka'bah (Indonesian), Ka'ba [feminine] (Italian), カアバ (Kaaba) (Japanese), Kaaba [feminine] (Lithuanian), Ќаба (Ḱaba) [feminine] (Macedonian), Каба (Kaba) [feminine] (Macedonian), Kaabah (Malay), काबा (kābā) (Marathi), Kabe (Northern Kurdish), Kaba (Norwegian), کعبه (ka'be) (Persian), Kaaba [feminine] (Polish), Kaaba [feminine] (Portuguese), Kaabá (Rohingya), Ка́аба (Káaba) [feminine] (Russian), Ка́ба [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), Ћа́ба [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), Kába [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), Ćába [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), Kába [feminine] (Slovak), Kaaba [feminine] (Spanish), Kaaba (Swahili), Kaba (Swedish), Каъба (Kaʾba) (Tajik), காபா (kāpā) (Tamil), กะอฺบะหฺ (gà’bàh) (Thai), 🕋 (Translingual), Kâbe (Turkish), کعبہ (ka'ba) (Urdu), كەئبە (ke'be) (Uyghur), Kaʼba (Uzbek)
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          "code": "sk",
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          "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
          "word": "காபா"
        },
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          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "gà’bàh",
          "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
          "word": "กะอฺบะหฺ"
        },
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          "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
          "word": "🕋"
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          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
          "word": "Kâbe"
        },
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          "roman": "ka'ba",
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          "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
          "word": "كەئبە"
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          "lang": "Uzbek",
          "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
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        "Terms with Crimean Tatar translations",
        "Terms with Danish translations",
        "Terms with Dargwa translations",
        "Terms with Dutch translations",
        "Terms with Esperanto translations",
        "Terms with Estonian translations",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Gujarati translations",
        "Terms with Hebrew translations",
        "Terms with Hindi translations",
        "Terms with Hungarian translations",
        "Terms with Icelandic translations",
        "Terms with Indonesian translations",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Japanese translations",
        "Terms with Lithuanian translations",
        "Terms with Macedonian translations",
        "Terms with Malay translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Marathi translations",
        "Terms with Northern Kurdish translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian translations",
        "Terms with Persian translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Rohingya translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
        "Terms with Slovak translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Swahili translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations",
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        "Terms with Tamil translations",
        "Terms with Thai translations",
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      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "word": "Qabeja"
    },
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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "al-kaʕba",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "الْكَعْبَة"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "al-kaʕba l-mušarrafa",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "الْكَعْبَة الْمُشَرَّفَة"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "word": "Kəbə"
    },
    {
      "code": "ba",
      "lang": "Bashkir",
      "roman": "Qəğbə",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "word": "Ҡәғбә"
    },
    {
      "code": "bn",
      "lang": "Bengali",
      "roman": "kaba",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "word": "কাবা"
    },
    {
      "code": "bn",
      "lang": "Bengali",
      "roman": "khane kaba",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "word": "খানে কাবা"
    },
    {
      "code": "bn",
      "lang": "Bengali",
      "roman": "kabaghor",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "word": "কাবাঘর"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "Kaaba",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "word": "Кааба"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "word": "克爾白"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "Kè'ěrbái",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "word": "克尔白"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "Tiānfáng",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "word": "天房"
    },
    {
      "code": "crh",
      "lang": "Crimean Tatar",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "word": "Kâbe"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "word": "Ka'ba"
    },
    {
      "code": "dar",
      "lang": "Dargwa",
      "roman": "Kaʿba",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "word": "Кагӏба"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "word": "Ka'aba"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "word": "Kaabo"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "word": "Kaaba"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "word": "Kaaba"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "word": "Ka’ba"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "word": "Kaaba"
    },
    {
      "code": "gu",
      "lang": "Gujarati",
      "roman": "kābā",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "કાબા"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "ka'ba",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "כַּעְבָּה"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "kābā",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "word": "काबा"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "word": "Kába"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "word": "Kaba"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "word": "Ka'bah"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Ka'ba"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "Kaaba",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "word": "カアバ"
    },
    {
      "code": "kmr",
      "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "word": "Kabe"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Kaaba"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "Ḱaba",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Ќаба"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "Kaba",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Каба"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "word": "Kaabah"
    },
    {
      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "kābā",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "word": "काबा"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "word": "Kaba"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "ka'be",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "word": "کعبه"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Kaaba"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Kaaba"
    },
    {
      "code": "rhg",
      "lang": "Rohingya",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "word": "Kaabá"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "Káaba",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Ка́аба"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "tags": [
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        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Ка́ба"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Ћа́ба"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Kába"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Ćába"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Kába"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Kaaba"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "word": "Kaaba"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "word": "Kaba"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "Kaʾba",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "word": "Каъба"
    },
    {
      "code": "ta",
      "lang": "Tamil",
      "roman": "kāpā",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "word": "காபா"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "gà’bàh",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "word": "กะอฺบะหฺ"
    },
    {
      "code": "mul",
      "lang": "Translingual",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "word": "🕋"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "word": "Kâbe"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "ka'ba",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "word": "کعبہ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ug",
      "lang": "Uyghur",
      "roman": "ke'be",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "word": "كەئبە"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "cubical stone temple in Mecca",
      "word": "Kaʼba"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Kaaba"
}

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