Morocco
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See also: morocco
English
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Etymology 1
[edit]Earlier spelling Marocco, from Portuguese Marrocos and/or Spanish Marruecos, from Arabic مُرَّاكُش (murrākuš), from Berber ⴰⵎⵓⵔ ⵏ ⴰⴽⵓⵛ (amur n akuc, literally “Land of God”). The word originally referred to the capital city of Marrakech (founded late 11th c.), but came to be used as a pars pro toto for the westernmost region of the Islamic world. Compare older Arabic مُرَّاكُش (murrākuš) (now اَلْمَغْرِب (al-maḡrib)), Persian مراکش (marâkeš), Medieval Latin Marrochium. Turkish refers to the country as Fas from Fez, another former capital. Doublet of Marrakech.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /məˈɹɒkəʊ/
- (US) enPR: məräk'ō, /məˈɹɑkoʊ/, /mɔɹˈɑkoʊ/
Audio (UK): (file) Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒkəʊ
Proper noun
[edit]Morocco
- A country in North Africa. Official name: Kingdom of Morocco. Capital: Rabat.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Japanese: モロッコ (Morokko)
Translations
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Etymology 2
[edit]Probably a surname of Italian origin.
Proper noun
[edit]Morocco (plural Moroccos)
- A surname from Italian.
Statistics
[edit]- According to the 2010 United States Census, Morocco is the 37591st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 592 individuals. Morocco is most common among White (92.23%) individuals.
See also
[edit]- Algeria
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cabo Verde
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Comoros
- Côte d'Ivoire, Ivory Coast
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini ~ eSwatini, Swaziland
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Republic of the Congo
- Rwanda
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- Western Sahara
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Further reading
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Morocco”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 621.
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