Ka'ba

Ka'ba
/kah"beuh, kah"euh beuh/, n.
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, Ka'bah, Ka'abah.
[1895-1900; < Ar ka'bah]

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Universalium. 2010.

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