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The direction in which Muslims face while praying, currently determined as the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: Islam, lifestyle, religion
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
a small terrorist group of Muslims in South Africa formed in the 1980s; was inspired by Ayatollah Khomeini to create an Islamic state in South Africa
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: terrorist organization, terrorist group, foreign terrorist organization, FTO
the direction of the Kaaba toward which Muslims turn for their daily prayers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: direction, way
Borrowed from Arabic قِبْلَة (qibla, “which is opposite”).
Across languages
Translations
48 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
قِبْلَة
(qibla)
— direction of praying
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Arabic:
قِبْلة
(gibla)
— direction of praying
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Azerbaijani:
qiblə
— direction of praying
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Bashkir:
ҡибла
(qibla)
— direction of praying
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Belarusian:
кі́бла
(kíbla)
— direction of praying
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Bengali:
ক্বিবলা
(kibla)
— direction of praying
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Bulgarian:
ки́бла
(kíbla)
— direction of praying
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Catalan:
alquibla
— direction of praying
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Crimean Tatar:
qıbla
— direction of praying
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Esperanto:
kiblo
— direction of praying
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Esperanto:
Kiblo
— direction of praying
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French:
qibla
— direction of praying
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French:
kibla
— direction of praying
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French:
kiblat
— direction of praying
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French:
kiblet
— direction of praying
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Georgian:
ქიბლა
(kibla)
— direction of praying
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German:
Qibla
— direction of praying
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Hindi:
किबला
(kiblā)
— direction of praying
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Hindi:
क़िबला
(qiblā)
— direction of praying
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Hindi:
क़िबलाह
(qiblāh)
— direction of praying
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Indonesian:
kiblat
— direction of praying
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Italian:
qibla
— direction of praying
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Japanese:
キブラ
(kibura)
— direction of praying
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Kazakh:
құбыла
(qūbyla)
— direction of praying
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Korean:
키블라
(kibeulla)
— direction of praying
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Northern Kurdish:
qible
— direction of praying
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Kyrgyz:
кыбыла
(kıbıla)
— direction of praying
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Malay:
kiblat
— direction of praying
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Pashto:
قبله
(qebla)
— direction of praying
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Persian:
قِبْلَه
(qibla)
— direction of praying
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Iranian Persian:
قِبْلِه
(ġeble)
— direction of praying
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Portuguese:
quibla
— direction of praying
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Portuguese:
alquibla
— direction of praying
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Russian:
ки́бла
(kíbla)
— direction of praying
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Russian:
кы́бла
(kýbla)
— direction of praying
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Serbo-Croatian:
ки́бла
— direction of praying
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Serbo-Croatian:
kíbla
— direction of praying
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Spanish:
alquibla
— direction of praying
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Swahili:
kibla
— direction of praying
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Tajik:
қибла
(qibla)
— direction of praying
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Tatar:
кыйбла
(qıybla)
— direction of praying
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Turkish:
kıble
— direction of praying
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Ottoman Turkish:
قبله
(kıble)
— direction of praying
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Turkmen:
kybla
— direction of praying
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Ukrainian:
кі́бла
(kíbla)
— direction of praying
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Urdu:
قِبْلَہ
(qibla)
— direction of praying
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Uyghur:
قىبلە
(qible)
— direction of praying
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Uzbek:
qibla
— direction of praying
