Meka

See also: meka, mēkā, and męka

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Telugu మేకా (mēkā).

Proper noun

Meka (plural Mekas)

1. A surname from Telugu.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Meka is the 39837^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 551 individuals. Meka is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (49.55%) and White (39.93%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Meka”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 568.

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mêka/

  Homophones: mȅka

Proper noun

Mȅka f (Cyrillic spelling Ме̏ка)

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

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mèːka/

Proper noun

Mẹ́ka f

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

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nominative	Méka
genitive	Méke
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Méka
genitive (rodȋlnik)	—
dative (dajȃlnik)	—
accusative (tožȋlnik)	—
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Méki
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Méko

Related terms

• Méčan / Méčanka
• méški

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• Meca, Mecca

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish La Meca, later on from English Mecca, ultimately from Arabic مَكَّة (makka). Possible doublet of Maka.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈmeka/, [ˈmɛ.xɐ]
• Rhymes: -eka
• Syllabification: Me‧ka

Proper noun

Meka (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒᜃ)

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