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kaaba

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun kaaba has 1 sense

kaaba(n = noun.artifact) caaba - (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

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CIDE DICTIONARY

kaaba, prop. n. [Ar. ka'bah, lit., a square building, fr. ka'b cube.].

The small and nearly cubical stone building, in the court of the Great Mosque at Mecca, toward which all Mohammedans must pray. It contains a sacred black stone, believed by Mohammedans to be one of the precious stones of paradise, and to have been brought to Abraham when he was contructing the Kaaba, by the Angel Gabriel. The Kaaba itself predates Mohammed, having been a pantheon which contained Arab idols, which were destroyed by Mohammed. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

kaaba, n. (also Caaba) a sacred building at Mecca, the Muslim Holy of Holies containing the sacred black stone.

Etymology

Arab. Ka' ba

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