Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word
mezquita. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
mezquita, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
mezquita in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
mezquita you have here. The definition of the word
mezquita will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of
mezquita, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
English
Etymology
From Spanish mezquita. Doublet of mosque.
Noun
mezquita (plural mezquitas)
- (dated) A Moorish or Spanish mosque.
Asturian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /meθˈkita/,
- Rhymes: -ita
- Hyphenation: mez‧qui‧ta
Noun
mezquita f (plural mezquites)
- (Islam) mosque (a place of worship for Muslims)
Spanish
Etymology
Usually claimed as being from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid, “mosque”), which is however phonologically difficult, so Al-Jallad (2017) suggests that it is a better match for Aramaic 𐡌𐡎𐡂𐡃𐡀 (msgdʾ /masgəḏā/, “the mosque”), which he also posits as the source of Byzantine Greek μασγίδα (masgída) and Central Atlas Tamazight ⵜⴰⵎⴻⵣⴳⵉⴷⴰ (tamezgida), which would have been borrowed directly due to closer contact of Romance speakers with Aramaic-speaking Christians or due to the Aramaic form being passed on in colloquial Arabic still in foreign shape.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /meθˈkita/
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /mesˈkita/
- Rhymes: -ita
- Syllabification: mez‧qui‧ta
Noun
mezquita f (plural mezquitas)
- mosque (place of worship for Muslims)
- (by extension, obsolete) a Native American (especially Aztec) religious site (during the Spanish conquest of the Americas)
- 1520 October 30, Hernán Cortés, a letter about "la matanza de cholula", quoted in 1992, El genocidio en México durante la conquista (1519-1521): crónica:
"...y certifico a vuestra alteza que yo conté desde una mezquita a cuatrocientos una mezquita y tantas torres en dicha ciudad, y todas son de mezquitas..."- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- Al-Jallad, Ahmad (2017) “The Arabic of the Islamic Conquests: Notes on Phonology and Morphology based on the Greek Transcriptions from the First Islamic Century”, in Bulletin of School of African and Oriental Studies, volume 80, number 3, pages 419–439
Further reading