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Definitions

Proper Noun

1. 1
   The nearly cubical stone temple in Mecca, the holiest place in Islam and site of the great hajj assembly.

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caaba

Example

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"Sami circumambulated the Kaaba seven times."

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic كَعْبَة (kaʕba, “cube”).

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