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 (2025), “مسیت”, in Southern Baluchi Dictionary (Webonary) (in Baluchi), Dallas, Texas, USA: SIL International, published 2019.

Borrowed from Classical Persian مسجد (masjid) / مزگت (mazgit). Compare also Indic cognates Old Hindi मसीति (masīti), Old Marathi 𑘦𑘭𑘲𑘝𑘲 (masītī), likely from the same source.

مَسِیتِ (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

• Saraiki: masīt

  Devanagari script: मसीत

  Multani script: 𑊠𑊥𑊁𑊖 (msit /⁠masīt⁠/)

  Shahmukhi script: مَسِیت

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

First attested as Old Punjabi مَسِیتِ (masīti).Doublet of مَسْجِد (masjid).

• (phr) IPA^(key): /mə.siːt̪ə̆/

مسیت (masīt)

1. mosque

First attested as Old Punjabi مَسِیتِ (masīti). Compare Marathi मशीद (maśīd) and Marwari 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

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

   • 1993, Anvar ʻAlī, Nūrī‎^[1], 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".

• گِرجا (girjā), مَنْدَر (mandar), گُرْدْوارَہ (gurdvārah), عِبادَت گاہ (ʻibādat gāh)

• مَسِیتی (masītī)

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002), “مسِیت”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: عزیز پبلشرز [ʻazīz pabliśarz]
• Bashir, Kanwal (2012), “مسیت”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Hyattsville, MD: Dunwoody Press
• “ਮਸੀਤ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025

Inherited from Old Punjabi مَسِیتِ (masīti), from Classical Persian مَسْجِد (masjid), from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid). Doublet of مَسْجِد (masjid). Cognate with Marathi मशीद (maśīd), Marwari मसीद (masīd), Punjabi مَسِیت (masīt).

• 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, United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2019 (originally published in 1900), →ISBN, page 287