mosque

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Alternative forms

• mosk

Etymology

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

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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 to where I live.

Synonyms

• masjid

Coordinate terms

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

Translations

a place of worship for Muslims

• Abkhaz: аджьаама (ādž̍āāmā)
• Albanian: xhami f
• Alviri-Vidari:

  Vidari: مجید (majjid)

• Amharic: መስጊድ (mäsgid)
• Arabic: مسجد m (masjid), جامع m (jāmiʿ)
• Aragonese: mezquita f
• Armenian: մզկիթ (mzkitʿ)
• Asturian: mezquita f
• Azeri: məscid (az)
• Bashkir: мәсет (mäset)
• Basque: meskita
• Belarusian: мячэць f (mjačécʹ)
• Bengali: মসজিদ (môshjid)
• Berber:

  Tashelhit: timzgid f

• Breton: moskeenn f
• Bulgarian: джамия (bg) f (džamíja)
• Burmese: ဗလီ (my) (bali)
• Catalan: mesquita (ca) f
• Chechen: маьждиг (mäždig)
• Chinese:

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

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

• Classical Nahuatl: mahomacalli, mahomatlatlatlauhtilizcalli
• Czech: mešita (cs) f
• Danish: moské (da) c, moske c
• Dutch: moskee (nl) f
• Esperanto: moskeo
• Estonian: mošee (et)
• Faroese: moska f
• Finnish: moskeija (fi)
• French: mosquée (fr) f
• Galician: mesquita f
• Georgian: მეჩეთი (meč’et’i)
• German: Moschee (de) f
• Greek: τέμενος (el) n (témenos), τζαμί (el) n (tzamí)
• Gujarati: મસ્જિદ (masjid)
• Hebrew: מִסְגָּד m (misgad)
• Hindi: मस्जिद (masjid)
• Hungarian: dzsámi (hu), mecset (hu)
• Icelandic: moska (is) f
• Ido: moskeo (io)
• Indonesian: mesjid (id), masjid (id)
• Interlingua: moschea
• Irish: mosc
• Italian: moschea (it)
• Japanese: モスク (mosuku)
• Kannada: ಮಸೀದಿ (kn) (masīdi)
• Kazakh: мешіт (meşit)
• Khmer: វិហារអ៊ីស្លាម (vi’hie iislaam)
• Korean: 모스크 (ko) (moseukeu)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: mizgeft (ku), camî (ku)

  Sorani: مزگه‌وت (mizgewt)

• Kyrgyz: мечит (meçit)
• Lao: ສຸເຫຣົ່າ (sú lāu)
• Latin: meschita
• Latvian: mošeja f
• Lithuanian: mečètė f
• Luxembourgish: Moschee f
• Macedonian: џамија f (džámija)
• Malay:

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

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

• Marathi: मशीद (maśīd)
• Mongolian: мечет (mečet)
• Ngazidja Comorian: msihiri class 3/4
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: moské (no) m

  Nynorsk: moské m

• Occitan: mosqueta (oc) f
• Ossetian: мӕзджыт (mæzǵyt)
• Persian: مسجد (fa) m (masjed)
• Polish: meczet (pl) m
• Portuguese: mesquita (pt)
• Rajasthani: मसीद (masīd), मसीत (masīt)
• Romanian: moschee (ro) f
• Russian: мечеть (ru) f (mečétʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: mosg
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: џа́мија f, моше́ја f (rare)

  Roman: džámija f, mošéja f (rare)

• Sicilian: muschea (scn) f
• Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: mešita f
• Slovene: mošéja f, džámija f
• Spanish: mezquita (es)
• Swahili: msikiti (sw)
• Swedish: moské (sv) c
• Tagalog: mosk
• Tajik: масҷид (masjid)
• Tamil: மசூதி (ta) (macūti)
• Tatar: мәчет (tt) (mäçet)
• Telugu: మస్జిద్ (masjid)
• Tetum: mesjid, meskita
• Thai: มัสยิด (mát-yít), สุเหร่า (th) (sòo-rào) (smaller, less role)
• Turkish: cami (tr), mescit (tr)
• Turkmen: metjit
• Ukrainian: мечеть (uk) (mečétʹ)
• Urdu: مسجد m (masjid)
• Uyghur: جامى (jami)
• Uzbek: masjid
• Vietnamese: nhà thờ Hồi giáo, thánh đường (vi)
• Western Panjabi: مسیت (pnb)

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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. First-person singular (eu) affirmative imperative of moscar
4. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of moscar
5. First-person singular (eu) negative imperative of moscar
6. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of moscar