مسیت

Corrupted from Classical Persian مَسْجِد‎ (masjid) / مزگت‎ (mazget), ultimately from Arabic مَسْجِد‎ (masjid). Doublet of مسجد‎ (masjid).

مَسِیتّ • (masītt)

1. (Islam) mosque

• Uppsala University (2023), “مسیت”, in Southern Baluchi Dictionary (Webonary) (in Baluchi), Dallas, Texas, USA: SIL International, published 2019.

Semi-learned borrowing from Arabic مَسْجِد‎ (masjid), through Classical Persian مسجد‎ (masjid) / مزگت‎ (mazgit). Compare also Indic cognates Old Hindi मसीति (masīti), Old Marathi 𑘦𑘭𑘲𑘝𑘲 (masītī), likely from the same source.

مَسِیت (masīti) f (Gurmukhi ਮਸੀਤਿ‎)

1. mosque
   • 12th Century, Bābā Farīd Ganj śakar, Bait 194

     فریدا ایسا ہوءِ رہو ، جیسا ککھ مَسِیت‎

     farīdā aisā ho'i raho , jaisā kakkh masīti

• Punjabi: masīt

  Gurmukhi script: ਮਸੀਤ

  Shahmukhi script: مَسِیت‎

• “مسیت”, in Kalam Baba Farid, Bait (or page) 21, 12th Century.
• “مسیت”, in A Descriptive Grammar of Hindko, Panjabi, and Saraiki (in English), volume 4 of Mouton-CASL Grammar Series, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2019, page 80

First attested as Old Punjabi مَسِیت‎ (masīti). Compare Marathi मशीद (maśīd) and Rajasthani मसीद (masīd). Doublet of مَسْجِد‎ (masjid).

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /mə.siːt̪ə̆/
• Rhymes: -iːt̪
• Hyphenation: مَ‧سِیت

مَسِیت • (masīt) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਮਸੀਤ)

1. (Islam) mosque
   • 1993, Anvar ʻAlī, Nūrī‎, volume 2, →ISBN, page 100:

     ‏"ایہنوں مسیت وچ وڑݨ نہیں دینا چاہِدا"۔‎‎

     ehnūṉ masīt vicc vaṛaṇ nahīṉ denā cāhidā.

     "He musn't be allowed inside the mosque".

   Synonyms: مَسجِد‎ (masjid), نَماز گاہ‎ (namāz gāh)

• گِرجا‎ (girjā), مَنْدِر‎ (mandir), گُرُدْوارَہ‎ (gurudvārah), عِبادَت گاہ‎ (ʻibādat gāh)

• مَسِیتی‎ (masītī)

• “مسیت‎”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2023
• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002), “مسِیت‎”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

Corrupted from Classical Persian مَسْجِد‎ (masjid) / مزگت‎ (mazget) (compare Old Punjabi مَسِیت‎ (masīti)), ultimately from Arabic مَسْجِد‎ (masjid). Doublet of مَسْجِد‎ (masjid).

• IPA^(key): /mə.siːt̪/

مَسِیت (masīt) f (Devanagari मसीत‎)

1. (Islam) mosque

• مَسِیتَر‎ (masītar, “a mosque regular”)

• “مسیت”, in Dictionary of the Jatki Or Western Panjábi Language (in English), United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2019 (originally published in 1900), →ISBN, page 287