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mosque

[ mosk, mawsk ]

noun

  1. a Muslim temple or place of public worship.


mosque

/ mɒsk /

noun

  1. a Muslim place of worship, usually having one or more minarets and often decorated with elaborate tracery and texts from the Koran Also calledmasjidmusjid


mosque

  1. A Muslim house of worship with at least one minaret, a tall, slender tower with balconies, used for calling the faithful to prayer.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of mosque1

1600–10; earlier mosquee < Middle French < Italian moschea Arabic masjid, derivative of sajada to worship, literally, prostrate oneself; the -ee seems to have been taken as diminutive suffix and dropped

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Word History and Origins

Origin of mosque1

C14: earlier mosquee, from Old French via Italian moschea, ultimately from Arabic masjid temple, place of prostration

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Example Sentences

Although the elderly can still worship, police bar children from entering the mosque.

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Last year, his regime converted the historic Hagia Sophia monument that was serving as a museum into a mosque.

From Ozy

Celebratory gunfire sounded over the mostly dark neighborhoods, a few horns blared from cars braving streets pocked with shell craters, and praise for God rang out from mosques around Gaza City.

In internal posts obtained by BuzzFeed, Facebook reportedly said the mistake had been made by an artificial intelligence system that mistook posts mentioning the mosque for references to a banned terror group.

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The mosque in Jerusalem had been the site of recent Palestinian protests amid high communal tensions in the city.

From Time

“Iran knows who lives in each and every house here,” one man in a Turbat mosque tells me.

Riots broke out in 1994, after Iranian authorities replaced a Sunni mosque in Mashad with a development project.

“Palmyra, Krac des Chevaliers, Afamia, the Umayyad Mosque—I took them everywhere,” he said, speaking to me in English.

Similarly, we never failed to recognize our relatives or friends if we came across them in the mall or mosque.

She then expressed her annoyance that the leader of the Oklahoma mosque where Nolan had worshipped refused to appear on her show.

The building, a mosque-like structure of considerable size, was situated in the midst of a grove of mango trees.

He entered the Mosque alone; his wives remaining seated in their carriages outside.

It was a mosque that stood in a garden, bounded by a high and stout wall and protected by jungle and mud hovels.

Among the other buildings, the Mosque Aurang Zeb is most worthy of the notice of travellers.

Fattipoor Sikri stands upon a hill; the fortress walls, the mosque, and other buildings can therefore be seen from a distance.

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