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Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian مَکَّه (makka), from Arabic مَكَّة (makka). First attested in c. 1564 as Middle Hindi مکہ (mkh /makka/).[1]
Pronunciation
Proper noun
مَکَّہ • (makkah) m (Hindi spelling मक्का)
- Mecca (a large city in the Hejaz, Saudi Arabia, the holiest place in Islam).
References
- ^ “مکہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
Further reading
More information
- “مکہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- 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
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “مکه”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 1111
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