mosque

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Alternative forms

• mosk

Etymology

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

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 an Ahmadiyya mosque near where I live.

Synonyms

• masjid

Coordinate terms

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

Derived terms

Derived terms

antimosque cybermosque Farthest Mosque inter-mosque megamosque

mosque affiliation mosque service mosqued mosqueful

mosquelike paramosque supermosque unmosqued

Translations

a place of worship for Muslims

• Abkhaz: аджьаама ‎(ādž’āāmā)
• 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)
• Asturian: mezquita f
• Azeri: məscid (az)
• Bashkir: мәсет ‎(mäset)
• Basque: meskita
• Belarusian: мячэ́ць f ‎(mjačécʹ)
• Bengali: মসজিদ ‎(môshjid)
• Berber:

  Tashelhit: timzgid f

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

  Cantonese: 清真寺 ‎(cing¹ zan¹ zi⁶)

  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)
• Hausa: masallaci (ha)
• Hebrew: מִסְגָּד (he) m ‎(misgad)
• Hindi: मस्जिद (hi) ‎(masjid)
• Hungarian: dzsámi (hu), mecset (hu)
• Icelandic: moska (is) f
• Ido: moskeo (io)
• Indonesian: mesjid (id), masjid (id)

  Sundanese: masigit

• Interlingua: moschea
• Interlingue: moské
• Irish: mosc
• Italian: moschea (it)
• Japanese: モスク ‎(mosuku)
• Kannada: ಮಸೀದಿ (kn) ‎(masīdi)
• Kazakh: мешіт (kk) ‎(meşit)
• Khmer: វិហារអ៊ីស្លាម ‎(vi’hie iislaam)
• Kimaragang: mosigid
• Korean: 모스크 (ko) ‎(moseukeu)

• Kumyk: межит ‎(mejit)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: mizgeft (ku), camî (ku)

  Sorani: مزگه‌وت ‎(mizgewt)

• Kyrgyz: мечит ‎(meçit)
• Lao: ສຸເຫຣົ່າ ‎(su rao)
• Latin: meschita
• Latvian: mošeja f
• Lithuanian: mečètė f
• Luxembourgish: Moschee f
• Macedonian: џа́мија f ‎(džámija)
• Malay:

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

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

• Malayalam: ജുമാമസ്ജിദ് ‎(jumāmasjid)
• Maltese: moskea f
• Marathi: मशीद ‎(maśīd)
• Mongolian: мечет ‎(mečet)
• Mwali Comorian: mkiri class 3/4
• 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
• Persian: مسجد (fa) m ‎(masjed)
• Polish: meczet (pl) m
• Portuguese: mesquita (pt)
• Rajasthani: मसीद ‎(masīd), मसीत ‎(masīt)
• Romanian: moschee (ro) f
• Russian: мече́ть (ru) f ‎(mečétʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: mosg
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: џа́мија f, моше́ја f (rare)

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

• Sicilian: muschea (scn) f
• Sinhalese: පල්ලිය (si) ‎(palliya), මුස්ලිම් පල්ලිය ‎(muslim palliya)
• Slovak: mešita f
• Slovene: mošéja (sl) f, džámija (sl) f
• Southern Altai: мечет ‎(meçet)
• Spanish: mezquita (es)
• Swahili: msikiti (sw)
• Swedish: moské (sv) c
• Tagalog: mosk
• Tajik: масҷид (tg) ‎(masjid)
• Tamil: மசூதி (ta) ‎(macūti)
• Tatar: мәчет (tt) ‎(mäçet)
• Telugu: మస్జిద్ ‎(masjid)
• Tetum: mesjid, meskita
• Thai: มัสยิด (th) ‎(mát-yít), สุเหร่า (th) ‎(sòo-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)
• Volapük: mojöp
• Welsh: mosg m
• Western Panjabi: مسیت (pnb)
• Yiddish: מעטשעט m ‎(metshet)

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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, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of moscar
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of moscar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of moscar