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Pronunciation
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-�k�|-�k�

Alternative spellings
Makkah
Makkah al-Mukkaramah

Proper noun
Mecca

1. A city in Saudi Arabia, the holiest place in Islam, location of the sacred Ka'ba, and to which Muslims are required to make a hajj at least once in their lifetime.

Translations

Arabic: ARchar|��ة ا���ر��|����ة ا�����ر�� (mákkat al-múkrim) f
Azerbaijani: M�kk�
Bosnian: Meka#Bosnian|Meka f
Bulgarian: �ека f
Chinese:
:Mandarin: zh-ts|麥�|麦� (Màiji�)
Croatian: Meka#Croatian|Meka f
Danish: Mekka#Danish|Mekka
Dutch: Mekka#Dutch|Mekka
Finnish: Mekka#Finnish|Mekka
French: La Mecque
German: Mekka#German|Mekka
Hindi: म���ा
Italian: La Mecca f
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Japanese: ��� (mekka)
Korean: �카 (mekka), �카 (makka)
Macedonian: �ека f
Norwegian: Mekka#Norwegian|Mekka
Persian: FAchar|Ù�Ú©Ù� (mekkeh)
Polish: Mekka#Polish|Mekka
Portuguese: Meca
Serbian:
:Cyrillic: �ека#Serbian|�ека f
:Roman: Meka#Serbian|Meka f
Slovene: Meka f
Spanish: La Meca f
Swedish: Mekka#Swedish|Mekka
Turkish: Mekke
Urdu: URchar|Ù�Ú©Û�

Noun
en-noun or mecca

1. figuratively Any place considered to be a very important place to visit by people with a particular interest.

Quotations
1991: On the other side of the Atlantic, stores in Paris's chic Avenue Montaigne, a mecca for Japanese tourists, said that sales to foreigners had fallen sharply. — The Economist, The Economist Newspaper Ltd

Category:Islam

ar:Mecca
fr:Mecca
hu:Mecca
ru:Mecca

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