Morocco

Earlier spelling Marocco, from Portuguese Marrocos and/or Spanish Marruecos, from Arabic مُرَّاكُش (murrākuš), from Berber ⴰⵎⵓⵔ ⵏ ⴰⴽⵓⵛ (amur n akuc, literally “Land of God”). The word originally referred to the capital city of Marrakech (founded late 11th c.), but came to be used as a pars pro toto for the westernmost region of the Islamic world. Compare older Arabic مُرَّاكُش (murrākuš) (now اَلْمَغْرِب (al-maḡrib)), Persian مراکش (marâkeš), Medieval Latin Marrochium. Turkish refers to the country as Fas from Fez, another former capital. Doublet of Marrakech.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /məˈɹɒkəʊ/
• (US) enPR: məräk'ō, /məˈɹɑkoʊ/, /mɔɹˈɑkoʊ/

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• Rhymes: -ɒkəʊ

Morocco

1. Morocco (a country in North Africa; official name: Kingdom of Morocco; capital: Rabat).

Probably a surname of Italian origin.

Morocco (plural Moroccos)

1. A surname from Italian.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Morocco is the 37591^st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 592 individuals. Morocco is most common among White (92.23%) individuals.

• Maghreb, Maghrib
• North Africa
• Appendix:Countries of the world
• (countries of Africa) countries of Africa; Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe ^{(Category: en:Countries in Africa) [edit]}

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Morocco”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 621.