قبلة

From the root ق ب ل‎ (q-b-l). Compare قَبِلَ‎ (qabila, “to receive hospitably”).

قُبْلَة • (qubla) f (plural قُبُلَات‎ (qubulāt) or قُبْلَات‎ (qublāt) or قُبَل‎ (qubal))

1. kiss

   Synonym: بَوْسَة‎ (bawsa)

   ‏قُبْلَةُ الْفَجْرِ تُضِئِينَ بِهَا حَيَاتِي كَشَمْسٍ تَشْرُقُ فِي أُوْلَى سَاعَاتِ الصَّبَاحِ‎

   qublatu al-fajri tuḍiʔīna bihā ḥayātī kašamsin tašruqu fī ʔuwlā sāʕāti ṣ-ṣabāḥi

   Your morning kiss lights up my life like a sun rising in the early hours of dawn.

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• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “قبلة”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

قِبْلَة • (qibla) f

1. direction, trend, drift

   ‏مَكَّةُ قِبْلَةُ الْحُجَّاجِ‎

   makkatu qiblatu l-ḥujjāji

   Mecca, direction of the pilgrims

2. (definite اَلْقِبْلَة‎ (al-qibla)) qibla, the direction towards the Kaaba, towards which Muslims pray.
3. (by extension) something or somewhere which people ought to seek

   Synonym: كَعْبَة‎ (kaʕba)

   ‏قِبْلَةُ الْأَحْرَارِ‎ ― qiblatu l-ʔaḥrāri ― the qibla of the free

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• القِبْلَتَان‎ (al-qiblatān, “the Two Qiblas (Mecca and Jerusalem)”)

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• → Azerbaijani: qiblə
• → Bashkir: ҡибла (qibla)
• → Catalan: alquibla
• → Chagatai: قبله‎
  • Uyghur: قىبلە‎ (qible)
  • Uzbek: qibla
• → English: qibla
• → Kazakh: құбыла (qūbyla)
• → Khalaj: qıblə
• → Ottoman Turkish: قبله‎
  • Turkish: kıble
• → Persian: قبله‎ (qeble)
  • → Urdu: قبلہ‎
• → Spanish: alquibla
• → Swahili: kibla
• → Turkmen: kybla

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• IPA^(key): /ɡib.la/, /ɡɪb.la/

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1. qibla, the direction towards the Kaaba, towards which Muslims pray.