What is the original name of mecca?

Answer 1

Mecca dirived from old arabic term "BAKK or BAKKUN". It means "Old city, holy city".

Answer:

The first name for the Valley of Makkah (Mecca) is in The Bible.

Read the Bible and you will see that Abraham (who is the forefather of Muhammad through Ishmael and through Ishmael's famous second son, Kedar) it says took Hagar (His second wife and the mother of his firstborn son, Ishmael) to the "Wilderness" (meaning place of no vegetation) of "PARAN".

Arabian history records that the valley Abraham was instructed by God to leave Hagar and Ishmael in, was FIRST called, in Arabic, Far-raan. Paran.

Why?

Well, when Ishmael - as a very young child, BEFORE Isaac was born (not as the Bible says that Ishmael was a whopping Fourteen Years Old at the time).

So it says, in the BIble, that the child was "Kicking his feet from thirst; and up sprang a well".

That well is still there. It nourishes the thirst of millions of pilgrims, every year.

AND . . . the well is the reason the valley got named Far-raan.

Arab history records that a caravan coming North from Yemen, spotted birds circling around the valley. They thought that was odd because they knew it was empty. It was a "wilderness".

So they steered the caravan towards the valley and, lo and behold, they found a woman, her young child and an ample supply of water. When they realized that this woman and her child are in the middle of nowhere, they named the valley Far-raan. Two Runaways. Paran.

So Hagar lived well, with Ishmael, after that. She owned the well.

See how God works?

Answer 2

It's from the Arabic "Makkah". However, the origin of "Makkah" is unclear. It has been proposed that it stems from the Phoenician "maqaq" (ruined) or the Arabic "mahrab" (sanctuary).

Makkah also means "cube" in Arabic.

Answer 3

yasrab was the ist and old name of mecca