مکہ

See also: مکه, مكة, and مکھ

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian مَکَّه (makka), from Arabic مَكَّة (makka). First attested in c. 1564 as Middle Hindi مکہ (mkh /⁠makka⁠/).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /mək.kɑ(ː)/

Proper noun

مَکَّہ • (makkah) m (Hindi spelling मक्का)

1. Mecca (a large city in the Hejaz, Saudi Arabia, the holiest place in Islam).

Further reading

More information

• “مکہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “مکہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “مکه”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 1059
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “مکه”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1111
• John Shakespear (1834) “مکه”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC