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, the provincial capital of Mecca Province in the in the Hejaz region, 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, if possible)

Further reading

More information

• “مکہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• 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
• Fallon, S. W. (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, page 1663