mezquita

English

Etymology

Spanish mezquita.

Noun

mezquita (plural mezquitas)

1. (dated) A Moorish or Spanish mosque.

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Asturian

Noun

mezquita f (plural mezquites)

1. (Islam) mosque (a place of worship for Muslims)

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Spanish

Etymology

From Andalusian Arabic [Term?], from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid, “mosque”, literally “place of prostration”), from the verbal root سَجَدَ (sajada, “to prostrate, bow down”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /meθˈkita/ [meθˈki.t̪a]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /mesˈkita/ [mesˈki.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ita

Noun

mezquita f (plural mezquitas)

1. mosque (place of worship for Muslims)
2. (by extension, obsolete) a Native American (especially Aztec) religious site (during the Spanish conquest of the Americas)
   • 1520 October 30, Hernán Cortés, a letter about "la matanza de cholula", quoted in 1992, El genocidio en México durante la conquista (1519-1521): crónica:

     "...y certifico a vuestra alteza que yo conté desde una mezquita a cuatrocientos una mezquita y tantas torres en dicha ciudad, y todas son de mezquitas..."

Derived terms

• Explanada de las Mezquitas