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

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    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

    Noun

    مسجد (plural مسجد-مسجد or مسجد۲, informal 1st possessive مسجدکو, 2nd possessive مسجدمو, 3rd possessive مسجدڽ)

    1. Jawi spelling of masjid

    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

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    Persian

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    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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      Etymology

        Borrowed from Classical Persian مَسْجِد (masjid), borrowed from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid), from سَجَدَ (sajada), from س ج د (s j d). First attested in c. 1609 as Middle Hindi مسجد (msjd /⁠masjid⁠/).[1]

        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.

        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.

        Declension

        Declension of مسجد
        singular plural
        direct مَسْجِد (masjid) مَسْجِدیں (masjidẽ)
        oblique مَسْجِد (masjid) مَسْجِدوں (masjidõ)
        vocative مَسْجِد (masjid) مَسْجِدو (masjido)

        Derived terms

        References

        1. ^ مسجد”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

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