Kaaba

Kaaba

See also: kʼaabaʼ

English

The Kaaba

Alternative forms

• Ka'ba, Kaʻba (stricter transliterations)
• Ka'aba (nonstandard, proscribed)
• Caaba, Cahaba, Qabah (all archaic)

Etymology

From Arabic كَعْبَة‎ (kaʿba, “cube”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːəbə/

Proper noun

the Kaaba

1. (Islam) The small and nearly cubical stone building in Mecca, holiest place of Islam, and also holy to pre-Islamic Arabian religions.

Translations

cubical stone building in Mecca

Albanian: Qabeja Arabic: الْكَعْبَة‎ (ar) f (al-kaʿba), الْكَعْبَة الْمُشَرَّفَة‎‎ f (al-kaʿba l-mušarrafa) Azerbaijani: Kəbə Bashkir: Ҡәғбә (Qäğbä) Bengali: কাবা (kaba), খানে কাবা (khane kaba), কাবাঘর (kabaghôrô) Bulgarian: Кааба (Kaaba) Chinese: Mandarin: 克爾白／克尔白 (zh) (Kè'ěrbái), 天房 (zh) (Tiānfáng) Crimean Tatar: Kâbe Danish: Ka'ba Dargwa: Кагӏба (Kaʿba) Dutch: Ka'aba Esperanto: Kaabo Estonian: Kaaba (et) Finnish: Kaaba French: Ka'ba German: Kaaba (de) Hebrew: כַּעְבָּה‎ f (ka'ba) Hindi: काबा (hi) (kābā) Hungarian: Kába (hu) Icelandic: Kaba Indonesian: Ka'bah Italian: Ka'ba f Japanese: カアバ (kāba) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: Kabe (ku) Lithuanian: Kaaba f Macedonian: Ќаба f (Ḱaba), Каба f (Kaba) Malay: Kaabah Marathi: काबा (kābā) Norwegian: Kaba Persian: کعبه‎ (fa) (ka'be) Polish: Kaaba (pl) f Portuguese: Kaaba (pt) f Rohingya: Kaabá Russian: Ка́аба (ru) f (Káaba) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Ка́ба f, Ћа́ба f Roman: Kába f, Ćába f Slovak: Kába f Spanish: Kaaba f Swahili: Kaaba (sw) Swedish: Kaba Tajik: Каъба (Kaʾba) Thai: กะอฺบะหฺ (gà’bàh) Translingual: 🕋 Turkish: Kâbe (tr) Urdu: کعبہ‎ (ka'ba) Uyghur: كەئبە‎ (ke'be) Uzbek: Kaʼba

Further reading

• Kaaba on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Akaba, abaka, abaká

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Estonian

Proper noun

Kaaba

1. (Islam) Kaaba

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Finnish

Etymology

From Arabic كَعْبَة‎ (kaʿba).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːbɑ/, [ˈkɑːbɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑːbɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Kaa‧ba

Proper noun

Kaaba

1. (Islam) Kaaba

Declension

Inflection of Kaaba (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative		Kaaba	—
genitive		Kaaban	—
partitive		Kaabaa	—
illative		Kaabaan	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Kaaba	—
accusative	nom.	Kaaba	—
	gen.	Kaaban
genitive		Kaaban	—
partitive		Kaabaa	—
inessive		Kaabassa	—
elative		Kaabasta	—
illative		Kaabaan	—
adessive		Kaaballa	—
ablative		Kaabalta	—
allative		Kaaballe	—
essive		Kaabana	—
translative		Kaabaksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Kaabatta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Kaaba (type kala)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Kaabani	Kaabamme
2nd person	Kaabasi	Kaabanne
3rd person	Kaabansa

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German

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic كَعْبَة‎ (kaʿba).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaʔabaː/
• Hyphenation: Ka‧a‧ba

• Audio

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Noun

Kaaba f (genitive Kaaba, no plural)

1. Kaaba (cubical stone building in Mecca)

Declension

Declension of Kaaba [sg-only, feminine]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Kaaba
genitive	einer	der	Kaaba
dative	einer	der	Kaaba
accusative	eine	die	Kaaba

Further reading

• “Kaaba” in Duden online
• “Kaaba” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Caaba

Proper noun

Kaaba f

1. Kaaba (cubical stone building in Mecca)

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Spanish

Proper noun

Kaaba f

1. Kaaba (cubical stone building in Mecca)