mosque
nounUS /mɑsk/ · UK /mɒsk/
Etymology From Middle French mosquée, from Italian moschea, ultimately from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid, literally “place of prostration”). Doublet of masjid.
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Islam, Lifestyle, Religion A place of worship for Muslims, often having at least one minaret; a masjid.
- There's a mosque near where I live.
- The demolition of two mosques in India within days of each other has highlighted the deep religious divide in the country, months before voters head to the polls for a nationwide election that is expected to hand Prime Minister Narendra Modi a rare third term in power.2024 February 15, Aishwarya S Iyer, Rhea Mogul, “‘Erasing a part of history’ – What a double mosque demolition tells us about India ahead of crucial election”, in CNN, archived from the original on 02 Jun 2024:
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- One Terrorgram user livestreamed himself stabbing five people outside of a mosque in Turkey, she said, and a 19-year-old Slovakian man praised the group in a manifesto before killing two people at an LGBTQ bar in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.2024 September 9, Hannah Rabinowitz, “Alleged leaders of White supremacist group charged in effort to encourage terrorism and hate crimes”, in CNN, archived from the original on 19 Sep 2024:
- Derived terms
- antimosque, cybermosque, Farthest Mosque, inter-mosque, intermosque, megamosque, mosque affiliation, mosqued, mosqueful, mosque-goer, mosque-going, mosqueing, mosqueless, mosquelike, mosque swallow, mosque yard, mosquish, paramosque, supermosque, unmosqued, victory mosque