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ʿ
Or ·ʿ,
[kah-buh, kah-uh-buh]
noun
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.
one of several replicas of this building, sacred to pre-Islamic Arabs.
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of ʿ1
First recorded in 1895–1900, ʿ is from the Arabic word 첹ʿ
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