English
Mecca
Mecca comes from Arabic مَكَّة.
- Arabicc. 500–presentمَكَّةMakka
- Englishearliest quotation 1826Mecca
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Arabicc. 500–presentمَكَّةMakka
- Englishearliest quotation 1826Mecca
Earliest quotation: 1826, Sketches of the Medical Schools of Scotland: “It was consequently the “Mecca,” the “Delphic Oracle,” the…”
The story
In American place names, in reference to the Arabian city.
Every English word from Arabic مَكَّة
Today it means
name A province of Saudi Arabia.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Arabic مَكَّة / Mecca