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English
Noun
mosk (plural mosks)
- Archaic form of mosque.
1846, Henry Keppel, The Expedition to Borneo, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2007:Should the English hoist their flag here, a new factory must be erected; the most eligible situation for which would be where the mosk now stands, or the mosk itself might be converted into one, and another rebuilt elsewhere; but to this the sultan has insuperable objections. In an English fort, to think to have a mosk open to the ingress of a large body of Malays at all times is wholly incompatible with a certain reserve and security required from it.
1900, Richard F. Burton, Supplement Nights to The Book of the Thousand And One Nights, Vol 6, Online edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2002:Then I left the mosk and began to promenade the quarters and the streets ...
Anagrams
West Frisian
Etymology
From Middle Dutch mussche, from Old Dutch musca, from Latin musca (“fly”).
Noun
mosk c (plural mosken, diminutive moskje)
- sparrow
Further reading
- “mosk (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011