بكة

According to Ibn Manzor the name derives from the root بكَّ‎ (“to be crowded, to throng, to pester”). Popular etymology has it that it comes instead from the vb. بَكَى‎ (bakā, “to cry”)

• IPA^(key): /bak.ka/

بَكَّة • (bakka) f

1. Bakkah is a toponym mentioned in the Quran (3:96) as the "first home to mankind" and thought traditionally to refer to today's city of Mecca
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 3:96:

     ‏إِنَّ أَوَّلَ بَيْتٍ وُضِعَ لِلنَّاسِ لَلَّذِي بِبَكَّةَ مُبَارَكًا وَهُدًى لِلْعَالَمِينَ‎

     ʾinna ʾawwala baytin wuḍiʿa li-n-nāsi la-llaḏī bi-bakkata mubārakan wa-hudan li-l-ʿālamīna

     The first House [of worship] established for mankind was that at Bakkah - blessed and a guidance for the worlds.

• Asaas al-Balaaghah by al-Zamakhshari (d. 1143 CE)
• Al-Muhkam wal Muheet al-Aadham by Ibn Seedah al-Mursi (d. 1066 CE)