Translation
mosque
Word origin
Through French mosquee and Italian moschea from Arabic masjid, a place of prostration, from the verb sajada, to bow down. Every European form of the word goes back to that same Arabic noun.
- Origin
- Arabic, through French
- Root
- masjid
- English cognates
- mosque
Examples
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The mosque stands in the centre of the town.
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In the town there is both a church and a mosque.
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In front of the mosque the people left their shoes.
A is the place of worship of islamo. The
building is defined by what happens in it rather than by its shape, though the
shape is often distinctive: a prayer hall facing Mecca, a miĥrabo niche marking
that direction, and frequently a dome and one or more oj, the towers
from which the call to prayer is given. Esperanto takes all four words from the
international vocabulary, which is what it does with the technical terms of every
religion.
The word is neutral and the register is encyclopedic. is what you
call the building; o is not a word anybody uses, because the person is
an islamano, a Muslim, and membership is of the
faith rather than of the building. The parallel set is worth learning together:
for a church, sinagogo for a synagogue, for a temple,
for a mosque. Only the first of those is built from Esperanto roots,
plus --, the place suffix, and the rest are borrowed whole.
Note that is the generic as well as the particular. Literally it is
just a place for praying, so it can cover any house of worship when you need a
word that does not specify one. In practice speakers use it for a church and
reach for the specific term otherwise, and that is the usage to copy.
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Start your free weekThis word is part of lesson 51.