mosquée

See also: mosquee and mosqueé

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian moschea, ultimately from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid, literally “place of prostration”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔs.ke/

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Noun

mosquée f (plural mosquées)

1. mosque

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: moske
• → English: mosque
• → German: Moschee
  • → Lower Sorbian: mošeja
• → Malagasy: moske
• → Romanian: moschee
• → Norwegian Bokmål: moské
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: moské

Further reading

• “mosquée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.