काबा

See also: कब, केब, कैबो, and कोबी

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian کعبه (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) IPA^(key): /kɑː.bɑː/, [käː.bäː]

Proper noun

काबा • (kābā) m (Urdu spelling کَعْبَہ)

1. (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
• “[1]”, 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 کعبه (ka'ba), from Arabic كَعْبَة (kaʕba). Compare Old Punjabi ਕਾਬਾ (kābā).

Proper noun

काबा (kābā)

1. (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