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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid).
Pronunciation
Noun
meschita f (genitive meschitae); first declension
- (Medieval Latin) mosque
1591, Leunclavius, Historiae Musulmanae Turcorum, de monumentis ipsorum exscriptae, libri XVIII, column 195:Condidit secundum haec Urchan Nicaeae magnam quamdam meschitam sive templum, in quo sui die Veneris hebdomadarium, Muhametano ritu, festum celebrarent.- Accordingly Orhan built a certain great mosque or temple in Nicaea, in which his people were to celebrate a weekly feast on Friday in the Mohammedan rite.
Declension
First-declension noun.
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