English-French translations for mecca

• La Mecque
  L'accord de La Mecque prévoyait aussi la fin de l'hégémonie du Hamas. The Mecca agreement had its part to play in bringing rule by Hamas alone to an end.
  Le prophète Mahomet est également venu de La Mecque sur notre terre pour monter aux cieux. Muhammad, the Prophet, came also from Mecca to our land to be lifted into the heavens.
  La Grande-Bretagne dispose de services consulaires à La Mecque durant le pèlerinage, Hajj. The United Kingdom is providing consular services in Mecca during the Haj pilgrimage.
• haut lieu
  Cette catastrophe, qui a commencé par souiller les côtes galiciennes, a aussi touché la côte atlantique française, dont le bassin d'Arcachon, haut lieu de l'ostréiculture. This disaster, which began by polluting the Galician coast, has also affected the French Atlantic coast, including that Mecca of oyster farming, the Arcachon basin.

Definition of mecca

• ; a place to which a group of people are drawn

Related words

• Meccan
• meccano
• balsam of Mecca