# Morocco

Pronunciation: US say "muh-RAH-koh" /məˈɹɑkoʊ/; UK say "muh-RO-koh" /məˈɹɒkəʊ/

## Proper noun

1. A country in North Africa, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, with its capital at Rabat.
   - Simple: A country in northwestern Africa, next to the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. Its capital is Rabat.
   - _Morocco lies just south of Spain, across the Strait of Gibraltar._
   - _A royal dynasty has governed Morocco for several centuries._

## Other meanings

- (proper noun) A surname from Italian.

## Origin

An earlier spelling was Marocco, taken from Portuguese Marrocos and/or Spanish Marruecos, which come from Arabic murrākuš, itself from a Berber phrase meaning literally "Land of God." The word first referred to the capital city of Marrakech, founded in the late 11th century, but later came to stand for the whole westernmost region of the Islamic world.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/morocco (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).