قِبْلَة

The word in other languages

Each form in its own language's script, with its sources. Anything marked "single source" has only one source we could find, so it is shown on this page only, not on the card.

• Turkish kıble on the card

  the qibla

  Sources: Nişanyan, Turkish etymological dictionary (via etimolojiturkce.com); Wiktionary (English edition)

• Turkish kıble single source

  in a record from 1533: a light wind from the south-east

  Sources: Nişanyan, Turkish etymological dictionary (via etimolojiturkce.com)

• Persian قبله qeble on the card

  the qibla

  Sources: Steingass, A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary (1892), University of Chicago edition; Wiktionary (English edition)

• Urdu قبلہ qibla on the card

  the qibla; also a respectful way to address one's father: "Qibla!"

  Sources: Platts, A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi and English (1884), University of Chicago edition; Wiktionary (English edition)

• Indonesian kiblat on the card

  the qibla; also a direction, a point of the compass

  Sources: KBBI, the official Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language; Wiktionary (English edition)

• Malay kiblat in Jawi script: قبلة

  the qibla; also a direction: east, west and so on; the source of the Indonesian word

  Sources: Kamus Dewan, 4th edition, on the PRPM portal of Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Malaysia; Wiktionary (English edition)

• Swahili kibla on the card

  the qibla; the mihrab of a mosque; north (in Zanzibar)

  Sources: Madan, Swahili-English Dictionary (Oxford, 1903); Rechenbach, Swahili-English Dictionary (Catholic University of America, 1967); Wiktionary (English edition)

• Bosnian kibla

  the qibla

  Sources: Abdulah Škaljić, Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku (Sarajevo, 1966); Wiktionary (English edition)

• Bosnian kibla single source

  and for Bosnians the qibla is the south-east: "Kod nas je kibla jugoistok", "with us the qibla is south-east"

  Sources: Abdulah Škaljić, Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku (Sarajevo, 1966)