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caaba
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun caaba has 1 sense
- caaba(n = noun.artifact) kaaba - (Islam) a black stone building in Mecca that is shaped like a cube and that is the most sacred Muslim pilgrim shrine; believed to have been given by Gabriel to Abraham; Muslims turn in its direction when praying; Array is a kind of shrine
is a part of mecca
CIDE DICTIONARY
caaba, n. [Ar. ka'bah, lit., a square building, fr. ka'b cube.].
The small and nearly cubical stone building, toward which all Mohammedans must pray. [1913 Webster]
" The Caaba is situated in Mecca, a city of Arabia, and contains a famous black stone said to have been brought from heaven. Before the time of Mohammed, the Caaba was an idolatrous temple, but it has since been the chief sanctuary and object of pilgrimage of the Mohammedan world."
[1913 Webster]
DEVIL DICTIONARY
caaba
n. A large stone presented by the archangel Gabriel to the patriarch Abraham, and preserved at Mecca. The patriarch had perhaps asked the archangel for bread.
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