Arabic vocabulary
How to say “Kaaba” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
اَلْيَوْمُ يَوْمُ الْمَلْحَمَةِ، اَلْيَوْمَ تُسْتَحَلُّ الْكَعْبَةُ
Today is the day of the great battle; today the Kaaba will be desecrated.
الْكَعْبَةُ — the Kaaba. A definite feminine name 'the Kaaba' carrying the article 'the', standing as the thing acted upon by the passive verb. Because the verb is passive, this noun is its grammatical subject (the receiver of the action), shown by the '-u' ending, and it follows the verb in normal order.
From: Conquest of Mecca Account →OpenArabic teaches words like كَعْبَةٌ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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