𐡌𐡎𐡂𐡃𐡀

Aramaic

Etymology

Noun of place from the verb 𐡎𐡂𐡃 (sgd, “to bow down”)

Noun

𐡌𐡎𐡂𐡃𐡀 • (msgdʾ /masgəḏā/) m (Imperial Aramaic)

1. place of worship

Descendants

• Nabataean Aramaic: 𐢓𐢖𐢄𐢅𐢀 (msgdʾ)
• → Arabic: مَسْجِد (masjid)
  • Gulf Arabic: مسيد (masyid)
  • → Amharic: መስጊድ (mäsgid)
  • → Central Kurdish: مزگەوت (mizgewt), مِزگِت (mizgit) — Ardalani
  • Northern Kurdish: mizgeft
  • → Classical Syriac: ܡܣܓܕܐ (masgḏā)
  • → English: masjid
  • → Japanese: マスジド
  • → Sundanese: masigit
  • → Javanese: mesjid
    • → Indonesian: mesjid
    • → Dutch: mesdjid
  • → Kimaragang: mosigid
  • → Malay: masjid
    • Indonesian: masjid
  • → Middle Persian: [script needed] (mzgt' /⁠mazgit⁠/)
    • Classical Persian: مزگت (mazgit)
      • → Southern Altai: мечет (mečet)
      • → Old Armenian: մզկիթ (mzkitʻ)
        • Middle Armenian: մզկիթ (mzkitʻ), մզգիթ (mzgitʻ), մսքիթ (mskʻitʻ), մզքիթ (mzkʻitʻ)
          • Armenian: մզկիթ (mzkitʻ)
      • → Avar: мажгит (mažgit)
      • → Bashkir: мәсет (məset)
      • → Chechen: маьждиг (mäždig)
      • → Crimean Tatar: mescit
      • → Dargwa: мижит (mižit)
      • → Georgian: მეჩეთი (mečeti)
      • → Lak: мизит (mizit)
      • → Ingush: маьждиг (mäždig)
      • → Kazakh: мешіт (meşıt)
      • → Nogai: мешит (meşit)
      • → Tatar: мәчет (mäçet)
        • → Russian: мече́ть (mečétʹ)
          • → Lithuanian: mečètė
          • → Ukrainian: мече́ть (mečétʹ)
            • → Polish: meczet
            • → Yiddish: מעטשעט (metshet)
  • → Classical Persian: مسجد (masjid)
    • Tajik: масҷид (masjid)
    • → Azerbaijani: məscid
    • → Bengali: মসজিদ (mosjid)
    • → Gujarati: મસ્જિદ (masjid), મસીદ (masīd), મસીત (masīt)
    • → Hindustani:

      → Hindi: मस्जिद (masjid)

      → Urdu: مسجد (masjid)

    • → Kannada: ಮಸೀದಿ (masīdi)
    • → Magahi: 𑂧𑂯𑂔𑂱𑂠 (mahjid)
    • → Marathi: मस्जिद (masjid), मशीद (maśīd)
    • → Marwari: मसीत (masīt), मसीद (masīd)
    • → Nepali: मस्जिद (masjid)
    • Newar: masjida

    Devanagari script: मस्जिद

    Newa script: 𑐩𑐳𑑂𑐖𑐶𑐡

    • → Northern Kurdish: mescîd, mizgeft

      → Lishana Deni: מזגפת (məzgaft(e))

    • → Ottoman Turkish: مسجد
      • Turkish: mescit
      • → Hungarian: mecset
      • → Romanian: mecet
    • → Old Punjabi: مَسِیت (masīti)
      • Punjabi: masīt

        Gurmukhi script: ਮਸੀਤ

        Shahmukhi script: مَسِیت

      • Saraiki: masīt

        Devanagari script: मसीत

        Multani script: 𑊠𑊥𑊁𑊖 (msit /⁠masīt⁠/)

        Shahmukhi script: مَسِیت

    • → Tamil: மஸ்ஜித் (masjit)
    • → Telugu: మస్జిద్ (masjid)
    • → Turkmen: metjit
    • → Uzbek: masjid, machit
  • → Swahili: msikiti
    • → Kamba: mũsikiti
    • → Luganda: omuzikiti
    • → Rwanda-Rundi: umusigiti
    • → Yao: msikiti
      • → Chichewa: mzikiti
  • → Hebrew: מִסְגָּד (misgā́d) (calque)
  • → Portuguese: Magide
  • → Thai: มัสยิด (mát-sà-yít)
  • Medieval Latin: meschita
    • Spanish: mezquita
      • → Italian: moschea
        • → French: mosquée
          • Haitian Creole: moske
          • → English: mosque
          • → German: Moschee
            • → Lower Sorbian: mošeja
          • → Malagasy: moske
          • → Romanian: moschee
          • → Norwegian Bokmål: moské
          • → Norwegian Nynorsk: moské
    • Portuguese: mesquita
  • Ancient Greek: μασγίδιον (masgídion)
• → Berber:
  • Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵜⵉⵎⴻⵣⴳⵉⴷⴰ (timezgida)
  • Northern Saharan Berber: taməzgida (Figuig, Wargla), tamǝzǧida, tamǝǧǧida, tamǝždida (Mzab)
  • Nefusa: tmǝzgidá
  • Siwi: amǝzdǝg
  • Tamahaq: tamăžžida
  • Tawellemmet: tamǝzgidda
  • Tarifit: tamziyda, ṯamǝzḏiya (Iznasen)
  • Tashelhit: ⵜⵉⵎⵣⴳⵉⴷⴰ (timzgida)
• → Byzantine Greek: μασγίδα (masgída), μασγίδιον (masgídion)
• → Catalan: mesquita
  • →? Occitan: mosqueta, mosquèa
• → Ge'ez: መስጊድ (mäsgid)
  • → Amharic: መስጊድ (mäsgid)
  • → Harari: መስጊድ (mäsgid)
  • → Tigrinya: መስጊድ (mäsgid)
• → Italian: moschea
  • → Czech: mešita
  • → Old French: mosque
    • French: mosquée
    • → Breton: moskeenn
    • → English: mosque
      • → Irish: mosc
      • → Japanese: モスク
      • → Korean: 모스크 (moseukeu)
      • → Scottish Gaelic: mosg
      • → Welsh: mosg
    • → Danish: moské
      • → Faroese: moska
        • → Icelandic: moska
    • → Norwegian: moské
    • → Swedish: moské
      • → Finnish: moskeija
  • → German: Moschee
    • → Estonian: mošee
    • → Latvian: mošeja
  • → Ligurian: moschêa
  • → Luxembourgish: Moschee
  • → Maltese: moskea
  • → Dutch: moskee
  • → Rutul: мездик
  • → Serbo-Croatian: (or from German)
    • Latin script: mošéja
    • Cyrillic script: моше́ја
  • → Slovene: mošêja (or from German)
  • → Slovak: mešita
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: mesquita
  • → Galician: mesquita
  • → Portuguese: mesquita
• → Old South Arabian: 𐩣𐩪𐩴𐩵 (ms¹gd)
• → Sicilian: muschea
• → Spanish: mezquita
  • → Asturian: mezquita
  • → English: mezquita

References

• “msgd”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–