مسجد

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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 (masjidm (plural مَسَاجِد (masājid))

  1. (Islam) mosque
    مَسْجِد جَامِعmasjid jāmiʕcentral mosque, great mosque

Declension

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

Root
س ج د
1 term

Etymology

From Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid).

Pronunciation

Noun

مسجد (masjidm (plural مَساجد (masājid))

  1. 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)

  1. 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))

  1. mosque, a place of worship for Muslims, often having at least one minaret
    Synonym: جامع (camiʼ)

Descendants

Further reading

Persian

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Wikipedia fa

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? masjiḏ
Dari reading? masjid
Iranian reading? masjed
Tajik reading? masjid

Noun

Dari مسجد
Iranian Persian
Tajik масҷид

مَسجِد (masjed) (plural مساجد (masâjed) or مسجدها (masjed-hâ))

  1. mosque

South Levantine Arabic

Root
س ج د
1 term

Etymology

From Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mas.ʒid/,
  • Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

Noun

مسجد (masjidm (plural مساجد (masājid))

  1. mosque
    Synonym: جامع (jāmeʕ)

Urdu

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Wikipedia ur

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 (masjidf (formal plural مَساجِد (masājid), Hindi spelling मस्जिद)

  1. mosque
  2. prayer hall (of a mosque)
  3. (by extension) a place of worship for prostration:
  4. (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
singular plural
direct مسجد (masjid) مسجدیں (masjidẽ)
oblique مسجد (masjid) مسجدوں (masjidõ)
vocative مسجد (masjid) مسجدو (masjido)

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