مسجد

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.

• IPA^(key): /mas.d͡ʒid/
  • (Hijazi) IPA^(key): [mas.d͡ʒɪd], [mas.ʒɪd]

مَسْجِد • (masjid) m (plural مَسَاجِد (masājid))

1. (Islam) mosque

   مَسْجِد جَامِع ― masjid jāmiʕ ― central mosque, great mosque

• الْمَسْجِد الْحَرَام (al-masjid al-ḥarām)
• الْمَسْجِد الْأَقْصَى (al-masjid al-ʔaqṣā)
• الْمَسْجِدَان (al-masjidān, “the Two Mosques (of Mecca and Medina)”)

• جَامِع (jāmiʕ)

• “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

From Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid).

• IPA^(key): /mas.d͡ʒid/, [mas.d͡ʒɪd]

مسجد • (masjid) m (plural مَساجد (masājid))

1. mosque

   Synonym: (mosque that hosts Friday prayer; usually a bigger mosque) جامِع (jāmiʕ)

From Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid).

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /masd͡ʒet/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /masd͡ʒɪt/
• Rhymes: -d͡ʒet, -et

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)

• جامع / jamik
• سوراو / surau (smaller, less role)
• لڠݢر / langgar (smaller, less role)

Borrowed from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid, “mosque”), noun of place from the verb سَجَدَ (sajada, “to bow down”).

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)

• Turkish: mescit
• → Hungarian: mecset

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mescit”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3161
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “mescid”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 747
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مسجد”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1165
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Templum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1655
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مسجد”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 4643
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mescit”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مسجد”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1851

Borrowed from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid).

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

1. mosque

From Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid).

• IPA^(key): /mas.ʒid/, [ˈmas.ʒɪd]

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مسجد • (masjid) m (plural مساجد (masājid))

1. mosque

   Synonym: جامع (jāmeʕ)

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”).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /məs.d͡ʒɪd̪/

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• Rhymes: -ɪd̪
• Hyphenation: مَسْ‧جِد

مَسْجِد • (masjid) f (formal plural مَساجِد (masājid), Hindi spelling मस्जिद)

1. mosque
2. (by extension) a place of worship for prostration:
3. (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.

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.

• “مسجد”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “مسجد”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “مسجد”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.