meca
Portuguese, noun
meca is spelled M-E-C-A (4 letters) and appears 1.9 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 22,561st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Meca is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “Mecca (any important place of pilgrimage by people with a particular interest)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Meca is a different word: “alternative letter-case form of meca”. With a cedilla, meça is a different word: “first/third-person singular present subjunctive”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “mulher atrevida”.
What does meca mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineMecca (any important place of pilgrimage by people with a particular interest)
noun
- 1
femininealternative letter-case form of meca
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. mulher atrevida 2. mulher brejeira 3. espécie de jogo do osso, no que é atirada ao ar uma pedrinha e voltada a recolher, e no intervalo são feitos determinados movimentos habilidosos com outras quatro pedras do chão
noun: 1. terra natal de Maomé 2. mesquita que guarda a Caaba 3. cidade santa do islamismo
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of meca
- mecas plural
- Meca alternative
- Mecas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is meca in Portuguese?
meca appears 1.9 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).