Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
mukataa is a noun meaning "an Arabic word for headquarters or administrative center". It carries one recorded sense.
an Arabic word for headquarters or administrative center
“Arafat was holed up in the mukataa of his West Bank compound”
Arabic
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for mukataa come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.