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ʿ

or ·ʿ, ʿ·

[ kah-buh, kah-uh-buh ]

noun

  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.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of ʿ1

First recorded in 1895–1900, ʿ is from the Arabic word 첹ʿ

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