Mecca

English

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Alternative forms

• Makkah, Makkah al-Mukkaramah

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛkə

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.

Derived terms

• Meccan

Translations

city in Saudi Arabia

• Arabic: مكة‎ (ar) (mákka) f, مكة المكرمة (ar) (mákkat al-mukárrama) f, مكة المكرِم (ar) (mákkat al-múkrim) f
• Armenian: Մեքքա (hy) (Mek’k’a)
• Azerbaijani: Məkkə (az)
• Bulgarian: Мека (bg) (Meka) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: trad. 麥加, simpl. 麦加 (Màijiā)

• Danish: Mekka (da)
• Dutch: Mekka (nl)
• Finnish: Mekka (fi)
• French: La Mecque (fr)
• German: Mekka (de)
• Hindi: मक्का (hi) (makkā)
• Hungarian: Mekka (hu)
• Icelandic: Mekka (is) f
• Indonesian: Mekah (id)
• Italian: La Mecca f
• Japanese: メッカ (ja) (Mekka), マッカ (ja) (makka)
• Javanese: Mekah (jv)

• Korean: 메카 (ko) (Meka), 마카 (ko) (Maka)
• Macedonian: Мека (mk) (Méka) f
• Malay: Mekah (ms)
• Marathi: मक्का (mr) (makkā) n
• Norwegian: Mekka (no)
• Persian: مکه (fa) (makke)
• Polish: Mekka (pl)
• Portuguese: Meca (pt)
• Russian: Мекка (ru) (Mékka) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Мека (sh) f

  Roman: Meka (sh) f

• Slovene: Méka (sl) f
• Spanish: La Meca (es) f
• Swedish: Mekka (sv)
• Telugu: మక్కా (te)
• Turkish: Mekke (tr)
• Urdu: مکہ (ur) (makka)

Noun

Mecca (plural Meccas)

1. (figuratively) Any place considered to be a very important place to visit by people with a particular interest.
   • 1991, The Economist, The Economist Newspaper Ltd.

     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.

   • 1997, John Romano, Muscle Meals, page 14.

     Living in Venice, California and training at the Mecca of bodybuilding, Gold's Gym, I've seen some of the world's most dedicated and hard-training athletes.

Alternative forms

• mecca