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Kaʿba

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Ka⋅ʿba

[kah-buh, kah-uh-buh]
–noun
1. a small, cubical building in the courtyard of the Great Mosque at Mecca containing a sacred black stone: regarded by Muslims as the House of God and the objective of their pilgrimages.
2. one of several replicas of this building, sacred to pre-Islamic Arabs.
Also, Kaʿbah, Kaʿabah.


Origin:
1895–1900; < Ar kaʿbah
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