काबा

See also: कब, केब, कैबो, and कोबी

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian (ka'ba), from Arabic كَعْبَة (kaʕba). First attested as Old Hindi काबा (kābā). Compare Punjabi ਕਾਅਬਾ (kāabā) / کَعبہ (kaʻbh), Sindhi ڪَعبو, Gujarati કાબા (kābā), Bengali কাবা (kaba).

Pronunciation

(Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /kɑː.bɑː/, [käː.bäː]

Proper noun

काबा • (kābā) m (Urdu spelling کَعْبَہ)

(Islam) Kaaba

Declension

Declension of काबा (sg-only masc unmarked ā-stem)

	singular
direct	काबा kābā
oblique	काबा kābā
vocative	काबा kābā

Further reading

Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “काबा”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha, page 905
“”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “काबा”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 190

Old Hindi

Alternative forms

काबइ (kābaï)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian (ka'ba), from Arabic كَعْبَة (kaʕba). Compare Old Punjabi ਕਾਬਾ (kābā).

Proper noun

काबा (kābā)

(Islam) Kaaba

Descendants

Hindustani: kābā
Hindi: काबा

Urdu: کَعْبَہ (ka'ba)

Further reading

Jaroslav Strnad (2013) Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī : Edition and Analysis of One Hundred Kabīr Vānī Poems From Rājasthān (Brill's Indological Library; 45), Leiden, →OCLC

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