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/

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).

• (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)

From Arabic مَسْجِد‎ (masjid).

مسجد • (mescid)

1. (Islam) mosque

• Turkish: mescit
• → Hungarian: mecset

• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “مسجد”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1851

Borrowed from Arabic مَسْجِد‎ (masjid).

مسجد • (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/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /məs.d͡ʒɪd̪/

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• Rhymes: -ɪd̪
• Hyphenation: مَسْ‧جِد

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

1. a place of worship for prostration

   (chiefly Islam) mosque

   (Judaism, obsolete) synagogue

   • 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.

   Synonym: کنیسہ‎ (kanīsa)

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 faiths who's worship involves prostration.

• “مسجد”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “مسجد”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “مسجد”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.