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–noun

a Muslim temple or place of public worship.

[Origin: 1600–10; earlier mosquee < MF < It moschea ≪ Ar masjid, deriv. of sajada to worship, lit., prostrate oneself; the -ee seems to have been taken as dim. suffix and dropped

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n. A Muslim house of worship.

[French mosquée, from Old French mousquaie, from Old Italian moschea, from moscheta, from Old Spanish mezquita, from Arabic masjid; see masjid.]

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c.1400, moseak, probably from M.Fr. mosquée, from It. moschea, from Sp. mesquita (modern mezquita), from Arabic masjid "temple, place of worship," from sajada "he worshipped" + prefix ma- denoting "place." In M.E. as muskey, moseache, etc.

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mosque
noun
(Islam) a Muslim place of worship that usually has a minaret

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mosque [mosk] noun

a Muslim place of worship

Arabic:	مَسْجِد
Chinese (Simplified):	清真寺
Chinese (Traditional):	清真寺
Czech:	mešita
Danish:	moské
Dutch:	moskee
Estonian:	mošee
Finnish:	moskeija
French:	mosquée
German:	die Moschee
Greek:	τέμενος, τζαμί
Hungarian:	mecset
Icelandic:	moska
Indonesian:	masjid
Italian:	moschea

Japanese:	回教寺院
Korean:	회교 사원
Latvian:	mošeja
Lithuanian:	mečetė
Norwegian:	moské
Portuguese (Brazil):	mesquita
Portuguese (Portugal):	mesquita
Romanian:	moschee
Russian:	мечеть
Slovak:	mešita
Slovenian:	mošeja
Spanish:	mezquita
Swedish:	moské
Turkish:	cami