name
Makka
MAH-kah
ˈmɑːkɑListen
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Syllable breakdown
Makka
Name meaning and origin
- Origin
- Chechen (Russia/Caucasus)
- Meaning
- a Chechen feminine name derived directly from Mecca, the holiest city in Islam; giving daughters this name reflects the profound religious devotion of Chechen society and the centrality of Islam to Chechen identity, which deepened particularly during the resistance wars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; a name carrying both spiritual aspiration and national pride
- Gender
- female
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