mosque
pronunciation
How to pronounce mosque in British English:
UK [mɒsk]
How to pronounce mosque in American English:
US [mɑːsk]
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- Noun:
- (Islam) a Muslim place of worship
Word Origin
- mosque
- mosque: [17] Mosque means etymologically a place where you ‘bow down’ in prayer and is, not surprisingly, of Arabic origin. It comes from Arabic masjid ‘place of worship’, a derivative of the verb sajada ‘bow down’. English acquired the word via Italian moschea and French mosquée as mosquee, but soon dropped the final -e. (The Arabic form masjid or musjid has been intermittently used in English in the 19th and 20th centuries.)
- mosque (n.)
- 1717, earlier moseak (c. 1400), also mosquee (16c.), probably in part from Middle French mosquée, from Italian moschea, earlier moscheta, from Spanish mesquita (modern mezquita), from Arabic masjid "temple, place of worship," from sajada "he worshipped" + prefix ma- denoting "place." Mangled in Middle English as muskey, moseache, etc.
Example
- 1. He has paid several visits to a local mosque .
- 2. A nearby mosque is bringing some relief .
- 3. Yet these mosque projects and others continue .
- 4. A red sandstone mosque stands on one side .
- 5. This is china 's only surviving mosque from the song dynasty .