# مسجد
## 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

* IPA: /mas.d͡ʒid/
** (Hijazi) IPA: [mas.d͡ʒɪd], [mas.ʒɪd]
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### Noun

مَسْجِد • (masjid) m (plural مَسَاجِد (masājid))
* (Islam) mosque
    مَسْجِد جَامِع ― masjid jāmiʕ ― central mosque, great mosque

#### Derived terms

* الْمَسْجِد الْحَرَام (al-masjid al-ḥarām, “The Sacred Mosque”)
* الْمَسْجِد النَّبَوِيّ (al-masjid an-nabawiyy, “The Prophet's Mosque”)
* الْمَسْجِد الْأَقْصَى (al-masjid al-ʔaqṣā, “The Furtherest Mosque, Al-Aqsa Mosque”)
* الْمَسْجِدَان (al-masjidān, “the Two Mosques (of Mecca and Medina)”)

#### Descendants

* Gulf Arabic: مسيد (masyid)
* → Amharic: መስጊድ (mäsgid)
* → Central Kurdish: مزگەوت (mizgewt), مِزگِت (mizgit) — Ardalani
* Northern Kurdish: mizgeft
* → Classical Syriac: ܡܣܓܕܐ (masgḏā)
* → English: masjid
* → Japanese: マスジド
* → Sundanese: masigit
* → Javanese: mesjid
** → Indonesian: mesjid
** → Dutch: mesdjid
* → Kimaragang: mosigid
* → Malay: masjid
** Indonesian: masjid
* → Middle Persian: [script needed] (mzgt' /⁠mazgit⁠/)
** Classical Persian: مزگت (mazgit)
*** → Southern Altai: мечет (mečet)
*** → Old Armenian: մզկիթ (mzkitʻ)
**** Middle Armenian: մզկիթ (mzkitʻ), մզգիթ (mzgitʻ), մսքիթ (mskʻitʻ), մզքիթ (mzkʻitʻ)
***** Armenian: մզկիթ (mzkitʻ)
*** → Avar: мажгит (mažgit)
*** → Bashkir: мәсет (məset)
*** → Chechen: маьждиг (mäždig)
*** → Crimean Tatar: mescit
*** → Dargwa: мижит (mižit)
*** → Georgian: მეჩეთი (mečeti)
*** → Lak: мизит (mizit)
*** → Ingush: маьждиг (mäždig)
*** → Kazakh: мешіт (meşıt)
*** → Nogai: мешит (meşit)
*** → Tatar: мәчет (mäçet)
**** → Russian: мече́ть (mečétʹ)
***** → Lithuanian: mečètė
***** → Ukrainian: мече́ть (mečétʹ)
****** → Polish: meczet
****** → Yiddish: מעטשעט (metshet)
* → Classical Persian: مسجد (masjid)
** Tajik: масҷид (masjid)
** → Azerbaijani: məscid
** → Bengali: মসজিদ (mosjid)
** → Gujarati: મસ્જિદ (masjid), મસીદ (masīd), મસીત (masīt)
** → Hindustani:
    → Hindi: मस्जिद (masjid)
    → Urdu: مسجد (masjid)
** → Kannada: ಮಸೀದಿ (masīdi)
** → Magahi: 𑂧𑂯𑂔𑂱𑂠 (mahjid)
** → Marathi: मस्जिद (masjid), मशीद (maśīd)
** → Marwari: मसीत (masīt), मसीद (masīd)
** → Nepali: मस्जिद (masjid)
** Newar: masjida
    Devanagari script: मस्जिद
    Newa script: 𑐩𑐳𑑂𑐖𑐶𑐡
** → Northern Kurdish: mescîd, mizgeft
    → Lishana Deni: מזגפת (məzgaft(e))
** → Ottoman Turkish: مسجد
*** Turkish: mescit
*** → Hungarian: mecset
*** → Romanian: mecet
** → Old Punjabi: مَسِیت (masīti)
*** Punjabi: masīt
    Gurmukhi script: ਮਸੀਤ
    Shahmukhi script: مَسِیت
*** Saraiki: masīt
    Devanagari script: मसीत
    Multani script: 𑊠𑊥𑊁𑊖 (msit /⁠masīt⁠/)
    Shahmukhi script: مَسِیت
** → Tamil: மஸ்ஜித் (masjit)
** → Telugu: మస్జిద్ (masjid)
** → Turkmen: metjit
** → Uzbek: masjid, machit
* → Swahili: msikiti
** → Kamba: mũsikiti
** → Luganda: omuzigiti
** → Rwanda-Rundi: umusigiti
** → Yao: msikiti
*** → Chichewa: mzikiti
* → Hebrew: מִסְגָּד (misgā́d) (calque)
* → Portuguese: Magide
* → Thai: มัสยิด (mát-sà-yít)
* Medieval Latin: meschita
** Spanish: mezquita
*** → Italian: moschea
**** → French: mosquée
***** Haitian Creole: moske
***** → English: mosque
***** → German: Moschee
****** → Lower Sorbian: mošeja
***** → Malagasy: moske
***** → Romanian: moschee
***** → Norwegian Bokmål: moské
***** → Norwegian Nynorsk: moské
***** → Danish: moské or moske
** Portuguese: mesquita
* Ancient Greek: μασγίδιον (masgídion)

### See also

* جَامِع (jāmiʕ)

### 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
### Etymology

From Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mas.d͡ʒid/, [mas.d͡ʒɪd]

### Noun

مسجد • (masjid) m (plural مَساجد (masājid))
* mosque
    Synonym: (mosque that hosts Friday prayer; usually a bigger mosque) جامِع (jāmiʕ)

## Malay
### Noun

مسجد (plural مسجد-مسجد or مسجد٢, informal 1st possessive مسجدکو, 2nd possessive مسجدمو, 3rd possessive مسجدڽ)
* 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))
* mosque, a place of worship for Muslims, often having at least one minaret
    Synonym: جامع (camiʼ)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: mescit
* → Hungarian: mecset
* → Romanian: mecet

### Further reading

* 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

## Persian
### Alternative forms

* مزگت (mazget) (archaic)
* مچد (maččed) (dialectal, Hamadan, Isfahan)
* مجد (majjed) (dialectal)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [mas.ˈd͡ʒið]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [mäs.d͡ʒɪ́d̪]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [mäs.d͡ʒɪ́d̪]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [mäs.d͡ʒɪ́d̪]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [mäs.d͡ʒíd̪̥]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [mæs.d͡ʒéd̪̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [mäs.d͡ʒíd̪]

### Noun

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

## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mas.ʒid/, [ˈmas.ʒɪd]
* Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

### Noun

مسجد • (masjid) m (plural مساجد (masājid))
* mosque
    Synonym: جامع (jāmeʕ)

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian مَسْجِد (masjid), borrowed from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid), from سَجَدَ (sajada). First attested in c. 1609 as Middle Hindi مسجد (msjd /⁠masjid⁠/).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /məs.d͡ʒɪd̪/
* Audio (Pakistan):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪd̪
* Hyphenation: مَسْ‧جِد

### Noun

مَسْجِد • (masjid) f (formal plural مَساجِد (masājid), Hindi spelling मस्जिद)
* mosque
* prayer hall (of a mosque)
* (by extension) a place of worship for prostration:
* (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.

#### Derived terms

* جَامِع مَسْجِد (jāmi' masjid, “a central; congregational (Jamia) mosque”)

### References

* ↑ “مسجد”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

### Further reading

* “مسجد”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
* Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “مسجد”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]