/kah"beuh, kah"euh beuh/ , n.
1. a small, cubical building in the courtyard of the Great Mosque at Mecca containing a sacred black stone: regarded by Muslims as the House of God and the objective of their pilgrimages.
2. one of several replicas of this building, sacred to pre-Islamic Arabs.
Also, Ka'bah, Ka'abah .
[ 1895-1900; ka'bah ]