Morocco Earlier spellingMarocco , fromPortuguese Marrocos and/orSpanish Marruecos , fromArabic مُرَّاكُش ( murrākuš ) , from aBerber language, compareTashelhit مرّاكُش ( mṛṛakʷš ) . The word originally referred to the capital city ofMarrakech (founded late 11th c.), but came to be used as apars pro toto for the westernmost region of the Islamic world. Compare olderArabic مُرَّاكُش ( murrākuš ) (nowاَلْمَغْرِب ( al-maḡrib ) ),Persian مراکش ( marâkeš ) ,Medieval Latin Marrochium .Turkish refers to the country asFas fromFez , another former capital.Doublet ofMarrakech .
Morocco
Acountry inNorth Africa . Official name:Kingdom of Morocco . Capital:Rabat .2018 October 26, Chris Fitch, “Reintroduction of military conscription in Morocco”, inGeographical [1] , archived fromthe original on27 February 2021 :Jonathan Hill, professor of international relations in the School of Security Studies at King’s College London, points to ongoing social unrest among rural youths inMorocco as another key reason why the law was passed. He cites the 2011 Arab Spring as an indicator of where such behaviour might lead if left unchecked.
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Acehnese:Maghribi Afrikaans:Marokko (af) Akan:Moroko Albanian:Maroku (sq) Amharic:ሞሮኮ ( moroko ) Arabic:الْمَغْرِب (ar) f ( al-maḡrib ) Hijazi Arabic:المغرب f ( al-maḡrib ) Moroccan Arabic:المغرب f ( el-maḡrib ) Aragonese:Marruecos m Aramaic:Assyrian Neo-Aramaic:ܡܵܪܵܟܸܫ ( marakish ) Armenian:Մարոկկո ( Marokko ) Asturian:Marruecos (ast) m pl Azerbaijani:Mərakeş (az) Balinese:Maroko Bashkir:Марокко ( Marokko ) Basque:Maroko (eu) Belarusian:Маро́ка n ( Maróka ) Bengali:মরোক্কো (bn) ( morōkkō ) Betawi:Magrib ,Maroko Breton:Maroko (br) Bulgarian:Маро́ко n ( Maróko ) Burmese:မော်ရိုကို ( mauruikui ) Catalan:Marroc (ca) m Central Atlas Tamazight:ⵍⵎⴰⵖⵔⵉⴱ ( lmaɣrib ) ,ⴰⵎⵕⵕⵓⴽ ( amṛṛuk ) Chinese:Cantonese:摩洛哥 ( mo1 lok3 go1 ) Mandarin:摩洛哥 (zh) ( Móluògē ) Corsican:Maroccu m Crimean Tatar:Mağrip Czech:Maroko (cs) m Danish:Marokko (da) n Dhivehi:މައުރިބު ( mauribu ) Dutch:Marokko (nl) n Esperanto:Maroko (eo) Estonian:Maroko (et) Farefare:Maroko Faroese:Marokko n Finnish:Marokko (fi) French:Maroc (fr) m Frisian:West Frisian:Marokko (fy) n Galician:Marrocos (gl) m pl Georgian:მაროკო (ka) ( maroḳo ) German:Marokko (de) n Ghomara:please add this translation if you can Greek:Μαρόκο (el) n ( Maróko ) Guarani:Paraguayan Guarani:(pleaseverify ) Marruéko Gujarati:મોરોક્કો ( morokko ) Hausa:Màr̃ōkò f Hebrew:מָרוֹקוֹ f ( maroko ) Hindi:मोरक्को (hi) m ( morakko ) ,मराकेश m ( marākeś ) Hungarian:Marokkó (hu) Icelandic:Marokkó (is) n Indonesian:Moroko ,Maroko (id) Interlingua:Marroco Irish:Maracó Italian:Marocco (it) m Japanese:モロッコ (ja) ( Morokko ) Javanese:Maroko Kalenjin:Moroko Kamba:Moroko Kannada:ಮೊರಾಕೊ (kn) ( morāko ) Kazakh:Мағрибия ( Mağribiä ) Khmer:ម៉ារ៉ុក (km) ( maarok ) Kikuyu:Moroko Kis:Moroko Korean:모로코 (ko) ( Moroko ) ,마로끄 (ko) ( Marokkeu ) ( North Korea ) Kumyk:Магърип ( Mağrip ) Kurdish:Central Kurdish:مەغریب (ckb) ( meẍrîb ) Northern Kurdish:Maroko (ku) Kyrgyz:Марокко ( Marokko ) Ladino:Maroko Lao:ມາລົກ ( mā lok ) Latin:Marocum n Latvian:Maroka (lv) f Lithuanian:Marokas (lt) m Luhya:Moroko Luo:Moroko Luxembourgish:Marokko n Macedonian:Маро́ко n ( Maróko ) Malay:Maghribi (ms) Malayalam:മൊറോക്കൊ ( moṟōkko ) Maltese:il-Marokk Manx:Yn Varoc f Māori:Marako ,Moroko Meru:Moroko Mongolian:Cyrillic:Марокко ( Marokko ) Navajo:Eʼeʼaahjí Ghą́ą́ʼaskʼidii Biłikahii Bikéyah Norman:Maroc m Norwegian:Bokmål:Marokko (no) n Occitan:Marròc (oc) m Odia:ମୋରୋକୋ ( moroko ) Pashto:مراکش m ( marākeš ) Persian:Dari:مَرَاکِش ( marākiš ) ,مَغْرِب ( maġrib ) Iranian Persian:مَراکِش ( marâkeš ) ,مَغْرِب ( maġreb ) Polish:Maroko (pl) n Portuguese:Marrocos (pt) m Punjabi:Gurmukhi:ਮਰਾਕਿਸ਼ ( marākiś ) ,ਮੋਰਾਕੋ ( morāko ) Shahmukhi:مراکش ( marākeś ) Rarotongan:Maroko Romanian:Maroc (ro) n Romansh:Maroc m Russian:Маро́кко (ru) n ( Marókko ) Sardinian:Marocu m ,Maroccu m Scots:Morocco Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:Маро̀ко m Latin:Maròko (sh) m Sicilian:Maroccu m Sinhalese:මොරොක්කෝව ( morokkōwa ) Slovak:Maroko (sk) n Slovene:Maroko (sl) m Spanish:Marruecos (es) m Sundanese:Maroko Swahili:Moroko (sw) Swedish:Marocko (sv) n Tagalog:Maruwekos Tajik:Марокаш ( Marokaš ) Tamil:மொரோக்கோ ( morōkkō ) Tarifit:please add this translation if you can Tashelhit:lmɣrib Tatar:Марокко ( Maroqqo ) Telugu:మొరాకో (te) ( morākō ) Thai:โมร็อกโก (th) ( moo-rɔ́k-goo ) Tigrinya:ሞሮኮ ( moroko ) Turkish:Fas (tr) Turkmen:Marokko Ukrainian:Маро́кко (uk) n ( Marókko ) Urdu:مَراکِش m ( marākiś ) Uyghur:ماراكەش ( marakesh ) Uzbek:Marokash (uz) Vietnamese:Ma-rốc Walloon:Marok (wa) m Welsh:Moroco f West Flemish:Marokko n Yiddish:מאַראָקאָ ( maroko ) Yoruba:Mòrókò
Probably a surname ofItalian origin.
Morocco (plural Moroccos )
Asurname from Italian .According to the 2010 United States Census,Morocco is the 37591st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 592 individuals.Morocco is most common among White (92.23%) individuals.