The Western Wall (Hebrew: ????????? ????????????, romanized: HaKotel HaMa'aravi, lit.'the western wall',[1] often shortened to the Kotel or Kosel), known in the West as the Wailing Wall, and in Islam as the Buraq Wall (Arabic: ?????? ?????????, ?ā'i? al-BurāqArabic pronunciation:['?a???t?alb?'ra?q])