mosquée

See also: mosquee and mosqueé

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian moschea, ultimately from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid, literally “place of prostration”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔs.ke/

• Audio; “une mosquée”:

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• Audio (France (Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost)):

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Noun

mosquée f (plural mosquées)

1. mosque

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: moske
• → Danish: moské, moske, moska
  • → Faroese: moska
  • → Icelandic: moska
• → English: mosque, mosk
  • → Irish: mosc
  • → Japanese: モスク
  • → Korean: 모스크 (moseukeu)
  • → Scottish Gaelic: mosg
  • → Welsh: mosg
• → German: Moschee
  • → Lower Sorbian: mošeja
  • → Estonian: mošee
  • → Latvian: mošeja
• → Malagasy: moske
• → Norwegian Bokmål: moské
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: moské
• → Romanian: moschee
• → Swedish: moské
  • → Finnish: moskeija

Further reading

• “mosquée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012