Kyaba
/kjaba/
the Kaaba, the sacred cube-shaped house in Mecca toward which Muslims pray and to which they make pilgrimage — The pilgrimage to the Kaaba is expressed with the dative: Kyabağa barırğa "make the hajj".
- Kyabağa barıw — the pilgrimage to the Kaaba
- Kyabağa namaz qılırğa barayım — let me go to the Kaaba to pray
- Kyabağa barğan men — it was I who went to the Kaaba
- Kyabanı qatında turğan haji qılmaydı — the one who lives beside the Kaaba does not make the hajj
- kyabağa barırğa — to make the pilgrimage to the Kaaba
Cases
| Case | —plain |
|---|---|
| Nominative | Kyabathe Kaaba |
| Genitive | Kyabanıthe Kaaba's |
| Accusative | Kyabanıthe Kaaba (as the object) |
| Dative | Kyabağato the Kaaba |
| Locative | Kyabadain / at the Kaaba |
| Ablative | Kyabadanfrom the Kaaba |
There is no plural of this word. The ending would attach like any other — it is the word, not the grammar, that refuses: this is not something Karachay counts.
The endings are the same ones the pronouns wear — that page explains when each case is used.