Mecca

Table of contents

1 English 1.1 Proper noun 1.1.1 Variant forms 1.1.2 Translations 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Quotations 1.3 See also

English

Proper noun

Mecca

Variant forms

Makkah, Makkah al-Mukkaramah

1. A city in Saudi Arabia, the holiest place in Islam to which Muslims are required to make a pilgrimage.

Translations

• Arabic: مكة المكرمة
• Chinese: 麥加
• Danish: Mekka
• Dutch: Mekka
• Finnish: Mekka
• French: La Mecque
• German: Mekka
• Italian: La Mecca
• Japanese: マッカ
• Norwegian: Mekka
• Polish: Mekka
• Portuguese: Makkah
• Spanish: La Meca
• Swedish: Mekka
• Turkish: Mekke

Noun

Mecca or mecca (plural Meccas or meccas)

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

Quotations

• 1991: On the other side of the Atlantic, stores in Paris's chic Avenue Montaigne, a mecca for Japanese tourists, said that sales to foreigners had fallen sharply. — The Economist, The Economist Newspaper Ltd

See also

• Wikipedia article on Mecca