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)

mosque

Descendants

→ English: mosque
→ German: Moschee
- → Lower Sorbian: mošeja
→ 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.

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