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/
  • (Hijazi) IPA^(key): [mas.d͡ʒɪd], [mas.ʒɪd]

مَسْجِد • (masjid) m (plural مَسَاجِد (masājid))

1. (Islam) mosque

   مَسْجِد جَامِع ― masjid jāmiʕ ― central mosque, great mosque

• 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 Furthest Mosque, Al-Aqsa Mosque”)
• 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^[1] (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).

• IPA^(key): /mas.d͡ʒid/, [mas.d͡ʒɪd]

مسجد • (masjid) m (plural مَساجد (masājid))

1. mosque

   Synonym: (mosque that hosts Friday prayer; usually a bigger mosque) جامِع (jāmiʕ)

مسجد (plural مسجد-مسجد or مسجد٢)

1. Jawi spelling of masjid.‎

Borrowed from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid, “mosque”), noun of place from the verb سَجَدَ (sajada, “to bow down”).

مسجد • (mescid) (definite accusative مسجدی (mescidi), plural مساجد (mesâcid))

1. mosque, a place of worship for Muslims, often having at least one minaret

   Synonym: جامع (camiʼ)

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

• 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^[2] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 747
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “مسجد”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[3] (in French), 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^[4], 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^[5], Vienna, column 4643
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “mescit”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “مسجد”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1851

• مزگت (mazgit / mazget) (Early New Persian, obsolete)
• مچد (maččed) (dialectal, Hamadan, Isfahan)
• مجد (majjed) (dialectal)

Borrowed from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid).

مسجد • (masjid / masjed) (plural مساجد (masājid / masâjed), or مسجدها (masjid-hā / masjed-hâ), Tajik spelling масҷид)

1. mosque

• Chagatai: مسجد (mäsjid)

  Uyghur: مەسچىد (meschid)

  Uzbek: masjid

From Early New Persian مَزْگِت (mazgit)

• Turkmen: metjit

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 مَسْجِد (masjid), borrowed from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid), from سَجَدَ (sajada). First attested in c. 1609 as Middle Hindi مسجد (msjd /⁠masjid⁠/).^[1]

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /məs.d͡ʒɪd̪/

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• Rhymes: -ɪd̪
• Hyphenation: مَسْ‧جِد

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

1. mosque (of a building)
2. prayer hall (of a mosque)
3. (by extension) a place of worship for prostration:
4. (Judaism, obsolete) synagogue

   Synonym: کَنِیسَہ (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]‎^[7], 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.

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.

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

• “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]