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Arabic
Etymology
Noun of place from the verb سَجَدَ (sajada, “to bow down”), from the root س ج د (s-j-d). Likely borrowed from a regional Aramaic term for a place of worship, attested in Nabataean Aramaic 𐢓𐢖𐢄𐢅𐢀 (msgdʾ) and in Imperial Aramaic 𐡌𐡎𐡂𐡃𐡀 (msgdʾ) already in the 5th century BCE, the emphatic state of which seems to underlie some of the Romance descendants.
Pronunciation
Noun
مَسْجِد • (masjid) m (plural مَسَاجِد (masājid))
- (Islam) mosque
- مَسْجِد جَامِع ― masjid jāmiʕ ― central mosque, great mosque
Declension
Declension of noun مَسْجِد (masjid)
Derived terms
Descendants
See also
References
- “msgd”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
- Schwally, Friedrich (1898) “Lexikalische Studien”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (in German), volume 52, page 134
- Wehr, Hans (1979) “سجد”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
Hijazi Arabic
Etymology
From Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid).
Pronunciation
Noun
مسجد • (masjid) m (plural مَساجد (masājid))
- mosque
- Synonym: (mosque that hosts Friday prayer; usually a bigger mosque) جامِع (jāmiʕ)
Malay
Etymology
From Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid).
Pronunciation
Noun
مسجد (Rumi spelling masjid, plural مسجد-مسجد or مسجد۲, informal 1st possessive مسجدکو, 2nd possessive مسجدمو, 3rd possessive مسجدڽ)
- mosque (a place of worship for Muslims)
Synonyms
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid, “mosque”), noun of place from the verb سَجَدَ (sajada, “to bow down”).
Noun
مسجد • (mescid) (definite accusative مسجدی (mescidi), plural مساجد (mesâcid))
- mosque, a place of worship for Muslims, often having at least one minaret
- Synonym: جامع (camiʼ)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mescit”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3161
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “mescid”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 747
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مسجد”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1165
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Templum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 1655
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مسجد”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 4643
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mescit”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مسجد”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1851
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid).
Pronunciation
Readings
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Classical reading?
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masjiḏ
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Dari reading?
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masjid
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Iranian reading?
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masjed
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Tajik reading?
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masjid
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Noun
Dari
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مسجد
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Iranian Persian
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Tajik
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масҷид
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مَسجِد • (masjed) (plural مساجد (masâjed) or مسجدها (masjed-hâ))
- mosque
South Levantine Arabic
Etymology
From Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid).
Pronunciation
Noun
مسجد • (masjid) m (plural مساجد (masājid))
- mosque
- Synonym: جامع (jāmeʕ)
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian مسجد (masjid), from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid), from the Arabic root س ج د (s j d, “to prostrate; bow; bending; complying”).
Pronunciation
Noun
مَسْجِد • (masjid) f (formal plural مَساجِد (masājid), Hindi spelling मस्जिद)
- mosque
- prayer hall (of a mosque)
- (by extension) a place of worship for prostration:
- (Judaism, obsolete) synagogue
- Synonym: کنیسہ (kanīsa)
2019 May 16, شاہ ولی اللہ [Shah Wali-ul-llah], “کراچی میں مقیم یہودیوں کی تاریخ [karācī meṉ maqīm yahūdioṉ kī tārīx]”, in روزنامہ جنگ [Daily Jang], Karachi:اس عبادت گاہ کو بنی اسرائیل مسجد بھی کہا جاتا تھا۔- is ʻibādat gāh ko banī isrā'īl masjid bhī kahā jātā thā.
- This place of worship also used to be known as the Bene Israel synagogue.
Declension
Declension of مسجد
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singular
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plural
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direct
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مسجد (masjid)
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مسجدیں (masjidẽ)
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oblique
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مسجد (masjid)
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مسجدوں (masjidõ)
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vocative
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مسجد (masjid)
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مسجدو (masjido)
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Derived terms
Usage notes
While مسجد usually infers the Islamic place of worship – the mosque, broadly speaking, it can be used for other places of worship, but specifically for Abrahamic faiths whose worship involves prostration.
Further reading
- “مسجد”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “مسجد”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “مسجد”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “مسجد”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “مسجد”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
- John Shakespear (1834) “مسجد”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC