Kaaba
/ˈkɑːbə/(亦作Caaba)
- a square stone building in the centre of the Great Mosque at Mecca, the site most holy to Muslims and towards which they must face when praying. It stands on the site of a pre-Islamic shrine said to have been built by Abraham, and a sacred Black Stone is set in its south-eastern corner.天房, 克尔白（建于麦加大清真寺广场中央的方形石造建筑, 是穆斯林圣地, 穆斯林祈祷时必须面朝它; 其所在地即伊斯兰教创立之前据传由希伯来人始祖亚伯拉罕所建神殿的旧址, 东南角置有神圣的“黑石”）。
词源
from Arabic （al-） ka'ba, literally '(the) square house'.