Mecca

Etymology
From of uncertain etymology. In American place names, in reference to the Arabian city.

Proper noun

 * 1)  , mostly borne by women.
 * 1)  , mostly borne by women.
 * 1)  , mostly borne by women.
 * 1)  , mostly borne by women.
 * 1)  , mostly borne by women.
 * 1)  , mostly borne by women.
 * 1)  , mostly borne by women.
 * 1)  , mostly borne by women.
 * 1)  , mostly borne by women.
 * 1)  , mostly borne by women.
 * 1)  , mostly borne by women.

Usage notes
Some Muslims consider the pronunciation shift indicated by English Mecca to be too great, insisting on or some equivalent transcription of the standard Arabic name.

Translations

 * Albanian: Mekë, Meka
 * Amharic: መካ
 * Arabic:, مَكَّةُ الْمُكَرَّمَة
 * Armenian: Մեքքա
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: Мәккә
 * Belarusian: Ме́кка, Мэ́ка
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: Ме́ка
 * Burmese: မက္ကာမြို့
 * Catalan: La Meca
 * Chechen: Мекка, Макка
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 麥加
 * Mandarin:
 * Coptic: ⲙⲁⲕⲁ
 * Czech:
 * Danish: Mekka
 * Dhivehi: މައްކާ
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: Mekko
 * Estonian: Meka
 * Farefare: Mɛka
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: მექა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: Μάκεχ
 * Hausa:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: Mekka
 * Indonesian: Makkah
 * Italian: La Mecca
 * Japanese:, マッカ
 * Javanese: Mekah
 * Kazakh: Мекке
 * Khmer: មេកា
 * Korean:, ^마카
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz: Меке
 * Lak: Макка
 * Latin: Mecca
 * Latvian: Meka
 * Lithuanian: Meka
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: Mekah, Makkah
 * Malayalam:
 * Maranao: Maka, Meka
 * Marathi: मक्का
 * Middle Persian: mkkh
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: Мекка
 * Ngazidja Comorian: Maka
 * Nogai: Макка
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: Mekka
 * Odia: ,
 * Ossetian: Меккӕ
 * Ottoman Turkish: مكه, مكۀ مكرمه
 * Pashto: مکه
 * Persian:
 * Dari:
 * Iranian Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Ме̏ка
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: Mekka
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: Makka
 * Swedish: Mekka
 * Tagalog: Meka
 * Tajik: Макка
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar: Мәккә
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: Mekge
 * Ukrainian: Ме́кка
 * Urdu: مَکَّہ
 * Uyghur: مەككە
 * Uzbek: Makka
 * Yakut: Мекка
 * Yiddish: מעקאַ

Noun

 * 1)  Any place considered to be a very important place to visit by people with a particular interest.

Usage notes
Generalized use of the name of the city of Mecca is offensive to some Muslims.

Translations

 * Danish: mekka
 * Hindi:
 * Japanese:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: мека
 * Latin:
 * Spanish: meca
 * Swedish:

Etymology
Borrowed from.