mosque English · revision 15245

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 1400|origins=ar سجد}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /mɒsk/ ''(UK)''; /mɑsk/ ''(US)''^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is an alteration of earlier muskee, moskee, [[bor|frm|mosquée]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024) from [[it|moschea]], an alteration of [[m|it|moscheta]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) from [[osp|mezquita]],^(MWU 2024)^(Barnhart 1988) from [[ar|مَسْجِد|tr=masjid|t=temple, place of worship]] (Egyptian Arabic [[m|arz|مسجد|tr=masgid]]),^(Etymonline)^(NODE 1998)^(Hoad 1986) from [[m|ar|سَجَدَ|tr=sajada|t=he worshipped]] with the prefix [[m|ar|مَ-|tr=ma-]] marking a place.^(Etymonline)^(Hoad 1986)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ A Muslim place of worship: about 1400 in the OED and Etymonline, in the mangled form moseak;^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline) Barnhart dates moseak and moseache probably before 1425, and Hoad has musketh in the 14th century.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Hoad 1986)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The Middle English forms are of obscure development.^(Hoad 1986)^(Barnhart 1988) Mosquee appears in the 16th century,^(Etymonline)^(Hoad 1986) and the present form mosque, a shortening of it, in the 17th, recorded in 1717 in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's letters.^(Hoad 1986)^(Barnhart 1988) The mosque, Muslims collectively, is from 1779.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1400 – moseak.^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline)

+ * 16th century – mosquee.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1717 – mosque.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)

+ * 1779 – the mosque, Muslims as a body.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A building for [[Muslim]] worship, usually with one or more [[minaret|alt=minarets]].^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[masjid]]

+ * [[minaret]]

+ * [[muezzin]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Word Origins cites it as an example of how western European languages mangled Arabic words.^(Cresswell 2021) Also used in English is the Arabic word itself, [[masjid]].^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}