mosquée
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian moschea, ultimately from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid, literally “place of prostration”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mosquée f (plural mosquées)
Descendants edit
- → English: mosque
- → German: Moschee
- → Lower Sorbian: mošeja
- → Romanian: moschee
- → Norwegian Bokmål: moské
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: moské
Further reading edit
- “mosquée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.