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 Bosnian: Meka (bs) f. Bulgarian: Мека (bg) f. Chinese: Mandarin: trad. 麥加, simpl. 麦加 (Màijiā) Croatian: Meka (hr) f. 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. Norwegian: Mekka (no) Persian: مکه (fa) (mekkeh) Polish: Mekka (pl) Portuguese: Meca (pt) Russian: Мекка (ru) (Mékka) f. Serbian: Cyrillic: Мека f. Roman: Meka f. Slovene: Meka (sl) f. Spanish: La Meca (es) f. Swedish: Mekka (sv) 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