mosque

English

A Mosque in Iran.

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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• Rhymes: -ɒsk

Noun

mosque (plural mosques)

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

   Synonym: masjid

   There's a mosque near where I live.

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
• mosque-goer
• mosque-going
• mosquelike
• mosque swallow
• mosque yard
• paramosque
• supermosque
• unmosqued
• victory mosque

 

Translations

a place of worship for Muslims

• Abkhaz: аджьаама (adžaama)
• Acehnese: meuseujid
• Adyghe: мэщыт (mɛśət)
• Afar: masgiidi
• Afrikaans: moskee
• Albanian: xhami (sq) f
• Alviri-Vidari:

  Vidari: مجید (majjid)

• Amharic: መስጊድ (mäsgid)
• Arabic: مَسْجِد m (masjid), جَامِع m (jāmiʕ), مُصَلًّى m (muṣallan)

  Egyptian Arabic: جامع m (gāmiʕ), مسجد m (masgid)

  Hijazi Arabic: مَسْجِد m (masjid), جامِع m (jāmiʕ), مُصَلَّى m (muṣalla)

  Moroccan Arabic: جامع m (jāmiʕ), مسجد m (masjid)

• Aragonese: mezquita f
• Archi: мижгил (mižgil)
• Armenian: մզկիթ (hy) (mzkitʻ)
• Assamese: মছজিদ (mosozid)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܲܣܓ݂ܵܕܵܐ m (masḡādā)
• Asturian: mezquita (ast) f
• Avar: мажгит (mažgit)
• Azerbaijani: məscid (az)
• Bambara: missiri
• Bashkir: мәсет (məset)
• Basque: meskita
• Batak: masojit
• Belarusian: мячэ́ць f (mjačécʹ)
• Bengali: মসজিদ (bn) (mosjid)
• 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 zi^6-2)

  Dungan: либэсы (libesɨ), сы (sɨ)

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

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

• Chuvash: мичӗт (mič̬ĕt)
• Classical Nahuatl: mahomacalli, mahomatlatlatlauhtilizcalli
• Crimean Tatar: cami, mescit
• Czech: mešita (cs) f
• Danish: moské (da) c, moske c
• Dargwa: мижит (mižit)
• Dhivehi: މިސްކިތް (miskit̊)
• Dutch: moskee (nl) f
• Esperanto: moskeo
• Estonian: mošee (et)
• Faroese: moska f
• Finnish: moskeija (fi)
• French: mosquée (fr) f
• Fula:

  Adlam: 𞤶𞤵𞤥𞤢𞥄

  Latin: jumaa

• Galician: mesquita f
• Georgian: მეჩეთი (mečeti)
• German: Moschee (de) f
• Greek: τέμενος (el) n (témenos), τζαμί (el) n (tzamí)

  Byzantine Greek: τέμενος n (témenos), μασγίδιον n (masgídion)

• Gujarati: મસ્જિદ f (masjid), મસીદ (gu) f (masīd), મસીત f (masīt)
• Haitian Creole: moske
• Hausa: masallaci (ha)
• Hawaiian: mokeko
• Hebrew: מִסְגָּד (he) m (misgád)
• Hindi: मस्जिद (hi) m (masjid), मसजिद (hi) m (masjid), मसीद (hi) f (masīd), मसीत (hi) f (masīt)
• Hungarian: dzsámi (hu), mecset (hu)
• Icelandic: moska (is) f
• Ido: moskeo (io)
• Indonesian: mesjid (id), masjid (id)
• Ingush: маьждиг (mäždig)
• Interlingua: moschea
• Iranun: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: mosc m
• Italian: moschea (it) f
• Japanese: モスク (ja) (mosuku), マスジド (ja) (masujido)
• Kamba: musukiti
• Kannada: ಮಸೀದಿ (kn) (masīdi)
• Kanuri: moshidi
• Karakalpak: meshit
• Kazakh: мешіт (meşıt)
• Khinalug: мачыг (mačɨg)
• Khmer: វិហារអ៊ីស្លាម (vihiə ʼihslaam)
• Kikuyu: muthigiti
• Kimaragang: mosigid
• Korean: 모스크 (ko) (moseukeu)
• Kumyk: межит (mejit)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: مزگەوت (ckb) (mizgewt)

  Northern Kurdish: mizgeft (ku), camî (ku)

• Kyrgyz: мечит (ky) (mecit)
• Ladino: mezkita f, mishkita f, djami m
• Lak: мизит (mizit)
• Lao: ສຸເຫຣົ່າ (su rao), ມັດ​ຍິດ (mat nyit)
• Latin: meschita f
• Latvian: mošeja f
• Lezgi: мискӏин (misḳin)
• Lingala: mosquée
• Lithuanian: mečètė f
• Luganda: omuzikiti
• Luxembourgish: Moschee f
• Macedonian: џа́мија (mk) f (džámija)
• Magahi: 𑂧𑂯𑂔𑂱𑂠 (mahjid)
• Maguindanao: maseguit
• Malagasy: mosikiriny
• Malay: masjid (ms), jamik (ms), surau (ms) (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: മസ്ജിദ് (ml) (masjidŭ)
• Maltese: moskea f
• Mandinka: missiro
• Maori: whare kōrana
• Maranao: masdid, masgit
• Marathi: मशीद (maśīd), मस्जिद (masjid)
• Minangkabau: musajik (min)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: мечет (mečet), лалын сүм (lalyn süm)

• Moroccan Amazigh: ⵜⵉⵎⵣⴳⵉⴷⴰ f (timəzgida), ⵜⴰⵎⵣⴳⵉⴷⴰ f (taməzgida)
• Mossi: misri
• Mwali Comorian: mkiri class 3/4
• Nepali: मस्जिद (masjid)
• Ngazidja Comorian: msihiri class 3/4
• Nogai: мешит (meşit)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: moské (no) m

  Nynorsk: moské m

• Occitan: mosqueta (oc) f
• Odia: ମସଜିଦ୍ (môsôjid)
• Oromo: masgiida
• Ossetian: мӕзджыт (mæzǵyt)
• Ottoman Turkish: جامع (camiʼ), مسجد (mescid)
• Paelignian: masjedi
• Pashto: جومات (ps) m (jomāt), مسجد (ps) m (masjed)
• Persian:

  Classical Persian: مَسْجِد (fa) (masjid)

  Dari: مَسْجِد (fa) (masjid)

  Iranian Persian: مَسْجِد (fa) (masjed)

• Polish: meczet (pl) m
• Portuguese: mesquita (pt) f
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਮਸ੍ਜਿਦ (masjid), ਮਸੀਤ (masīt)

  Shahmukhi: مَسْجِد (masjid), مَسِیت (masīt)

• Rajasthani: मसीद (masīd), मसीत (masīt)
• Rohingya: mosóit
• Romani: džamija
• 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
• Somali: masaajid
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: mošeja f

  Upper Sorbian: mošeja f

• Southern Altai: мечет (mečet)
• Spanish: mezquita (es)
• Sundanese: masigit
• Swahili: msikiti (sw)
• Swedish: moské (sv) c
• Sylheti: ꠝꠍꠤꠖ (mosído), ꠝꠡꠎꠤꠖ (mośozid)
• Tabasaran: мист (mist)
• Tagalog: moske
• Tajik: масҷид (tg) (masjid)
• Talysh: мәчит
• Tamil: மசூதி (ta) (macūti), பள்ளிவாசல் (ta) (paḷḷivācal), மஸ்ஜித் (masjit)
• Tatar: мәчет (tt) (mäçet)
• Tausug: masjid
• Telugu: మసీదు (te) (masīdu), మసీద్ (masīd), 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)
• Tigrinya: መስጊድ (mäsgid)
• Turkish: cami (tr), mescit (tr) (smaller), toplak (tr)
• Turkmen: metjit
• Ubykh: џамиа (dẑamja)
• Ukrainian: мече́ть (uk) f (mečétʹ)
• Urdu: مَسْجِد m (masjid)
• Uyghur: جامى (jami), مەسچىد (meschid)
• Uzbek: masjid (uz), machit (uz)
• Vietnamese: nhà thờ Hồi giáo, thánh đường (vi)
• Volapük: mojöp
• Walloon: moskêye (wa) f
• Welsh: mosg m
• Western Panjabi: مسیت (pnb)
• Wolof: jaaka
• Yakut: мэчиэт (meciet)
• Yiddish: מעטשעט m (metshet)
• Yoruba: mọ́ṣáláṣí

Galician

Verb

mosque

1. inflection of moscar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Old French

Noun

mosque ?

1. mosque

Portuguese

Verb

mosque

1. inflection of moscar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoske/ [ˈmos.ke]
• Rhymes: -oske
• Syllabification: mos‧que

Verb

mosque

1. inflection of moscar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative