mosque

English

Alternative forms

• mosk

Etymology

From French mosquée, from Italian moschea, ultimately from Arabic مَسْجِد‎ (masjid, literally “place of prostration”). Doublet of masjid.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /mɑsk/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mɒsk/

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Noun

mosque (plural mosques)

1. (Islam) A place of worship for Muslims, often having at least one minaret; a masjid.

   There's a mosque near where I live.

   Synonym: masjid

Coordinate terms

• church, synagogue, temple, gurdwara, hof, fire temple, circle, mandir, jinja, House of Worship

Derived terms

• antimosque
• cybermosque
• Farthest Mosque
• inter-mosque
• megamosque
• mosque affiliation
• mosqued
• mosqueful
• mosquelike
• paramosque
• supermosque
• unmosqued

 

Translations

a place of worship for Muslims

• Abkhaz: аджьаама (ādž’āāmā)
• Acehnese: meuseujid
• Afrikaans: moskee
• Albanian: xhami (sq) f
• Alviri-Vidari:

  Vidari: مجید‎ (majjid)

• Amharic: መስጊድ (mäsgid)
• Arabic: مَسْجِد‎ m (masjid), جَامِع‎ m (jāmiʿ)
• Aragonese: mezquita f
• Armenian: մզկիթ (hy) (mzkitʿ)
• Assamese: মছজিদ (mosozid)
• Asturian: mezquita f
• Avar: мажгит (mažgit)
• Azerbaijani: məscid (az)
• Bashkir: мәсет (mäset)
• Basque: meskita
• Belarusian: мячэ́ць f (mjačécʹ)
• Bengali: মসজিদ (môsjid)
• Berber:

  Tashelhit: timzgid f

• Bole: mashidi
• Breton: moskeenn f
• Bulgarian: джами́я (bg) f (džamíja)
• Burmese: ဗလီ (my) (ba.li)
• Catalan: mesquita (ca) f
• Central Dusun: mosigid
• Central Melanau: masegit
• Chechen: маьждиг (mäždig)
• Chichewa: mzikiti
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 清真寺 (cing¹ zan¹ zi⁶)

  Dungan: либэсы (libesɨ), сы (sɨ)

  Mandarin: 清真寺 (zh) (qīngzhēnsì), 禮拜寺 (zh), 礼拜寺 (zh) (lǐbàisì)

  Min Nan: 清真寺 (zh-min-nan) (chheng-chin-sī)

• Chuvash: мичӗт (mičĕt)
• Classical Nahuatl: mahomacalli, mahomatlatlatlauhtilizcalli
• Crimean Tatar: cami, mescit
• Czech: mešita (cs) f
• Danish: moské (da) c, moske c
• Dargwa: мижит (mižit)
• Dutch: moskee (nl) f
• Esperanto: moskeo
• Estonian: mošee (et)
• Faroese: moska f
• Finnish: moskeija (fi)
• French: mosquée (fr) f
• Galician: mesquita f
• Georgian: მეჩეთი (mečeti)
• German: Moschee (de) f
• Greek: τέμενος (el) n (témenos), τζαμί (el) n (tzamí)
• Gujarati: મસ્જિદ (masjid)
• Haitian Creole: moske
• Hausa: masallaci (ha)
• Hebrew: מִסְגָּד‎ (he) m (misgad)
• Hindi: मस्जिद (hi) m (masjid)
• Hungarian: dzsámi (hu), mecset (hu)
• Icelandic: moska (is) f
• Ido: moskeo (io)
• Indonesian: mesjid (id), masjid (id)

  Sundanese: masigit

• Ingush: маьждиг (mäždig)
• Interlingua: moschea
• Interlingue: moské
• Irish: mosc m
• Italian: moschea (it) f
• Japanese: モスク (mosuku)
• Kannada: ಮಸೀದಿ (kn) (masīdi)
• Karakalpak: meshit
• Kazakh: мешіт (kk) (meşit)
• Khmer: វិហារអ៊ីស្លាម (vihiə ʾihslaam)
• Kimaragang: mosigid
• Korean: 모스크 (ko) (moseukeu)
• Kumyk: межит (mejit)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: mizgeft (ku), camî (ku)

  Sorani: مزگه‌وت‎ (mizgewt)

• Kyrgyz: мечит (ky) (meçit)
• Lak: мизит (mizit)
• Lao: ສຸເຫຣົ່າ (su rao), ມັດ​ຍິດ (mat nyit)
• Latin: meschita f
• Latvian: mošeja f
• Lezgi: мискӏин (misḳin)
• Lithuanian: mečètė f
• Luganda: omuzikiti
• Luxembourgish: Moschee f
• Macedonian: џа́мија f (džámija)
• Malay:

  Jawi: مسجد‎, جامع‎, سوراو‎ (smaller, less role), لڠݢر‎ (smaller, less role), زاوية‎ (smaller, less role)

  Rumi: masjid (ms), jamik (ms), surau (smaller, less role), langgar (smaller, less role), zawiat (ms) (smaller, less role)

• Malayalam: മസ്ജിദ് (ml) (masjidŭ)
• Maltese: moskea f
• Marathi: मशीद (maśīd), मस्जिद (masjid)
• Mongolian: мечет (mečet), лалын сүм (lalyn süm)
• Mwali Comorian: mkiri class 3/4
• Nepali: मस्जिद (masjida)
• Ngazidja Comorian: msihiri class 3/4
• Nogai: мешит (meşit)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: moské (no) m

  Nynorsk: moské m

• Occitan: mosqueta (oc) f
• Oriya: ମସଜିଦ୍ (masajid)
• Ossetian: мӕзджыт (mæzǵyt)
• Paelignian: masjedi
• Pashto: جومات‎ (ps) m (ǰomãt), مسجد‎ (ps) m (masǰéd)
• Persian: مسجد‎ (fa) m (masjed)
• Polish: meczet (pl) m
• Portuguese: mesquita (pt)
• Punjabi: ਮਸਜਿਦ (masjid)
• Rajasthani: मसीद (masīd), मसीत (masīt)
• Romanian: moschee (ro) f
• Russian: мече́ть (ru) f (mečétʹ)
• Rutul: мездик
• Rwanda-Rundi: umusigiti
• Samoan: mosike
• Scottish Gaelic: mosg
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: џа́мија f, моше́ја f (rare)

  Roman: džámija (sh) f, mošéja (sh) f (rare)

• Shona: musikiti
• Sicilian: muschea (scn) f
• Sinhalese: පල්ලිය (si) (palliya), මුස්ලිම් පල්ලිය (muslim palliya), මස්ජිඩ් (masjiḍ)
• Slovak: mešita (sk) f
• Slovene: mošéja (sl) f, džámija (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: mošeja f

• Southern Altai: мечет (mečet)
• Spanish: mezquita (es)
• Swahili: msikiti (sw)
• Swedish: moské (sv) c
• Tabasaran: мист (mist)
• Tagalog: mosk
• Tajik: масҷид (tg) (masjid)
• Tamil: மசூதி (ta) (macūti), மஸ்ஜித் (masjit)
• Tatar: мәчет (tt) (mäçet)
• Telugu: మస్జిద్ (masjid)
• Tetum: mesjid, meskita
• Thai: มัสยิด (th) (mát-sà-yít), สุเหร่า (th) (sù-rào) (smaller, less role)
• Tibetan: ཁ་ཆེའི་ཆོས་ཁང (kha che'i chos khang)
• Turkish: cami (tr), mescit (tr) (smaller), toplak (tr)
• Turkmen: metjit
• Ukrainian: мече́ть (uk) (mečétʹ)
• Urdu: مسجد‎ m (masjid)
• Uyghur: جامى‎ (jami), مەسچىد‎ (meschid)
• Uzbek: masjid (uz), machit (uz)
• Vietnamese: nhà thờ Hồi giáo, thánh đường (vi), masjid
• Volapük: mojöp
• Welsh: mosg m
• Western Panjabi: مسیت‎ (pnb)
• Yiddish: מעטשעט‎ m (metshet)
• Yoruba: mosalasi

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Old French

Noun

mosque ?

1. mosque

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Portuguese

Verb

mosque

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of moscar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of moscar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of moscar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of moscar

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoske/

Verb

mosque

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of moscar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of moscar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of moscar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of moscar.