mezquita

== English == === Etymology === From Spanish mezquita. Doublet of mosque. === Noun === mezquita (plural mezquitas) (dated) A Moorish or Spanish mosque. == Asturian == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /meθˈkita/ [meθˈki.t̪a] Rhymes: -ita Syllabification: mez‧qui‧ta === Noun === mezquita f (plural mezquites) (Islam) mosque (a place of worship for Muslims) === Further reading === “mezquita”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1st edition, Academy of the Asturian Language [Asturian: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana], 2000, →ISBN == Spanish == === Etymology === Usually claimed as being from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid, “mosque”), which is however phonologically difficult, so Al-Jallad (2017) suggests that it is a better match for Aramaic 𐡌𐡎𐡂𐡃𐡀 (msgdʾ /⁠masgəḏā⁠/, “the mosque”), which he also posits as the source of Byzantine Greek μασγίδα (masgída) and Tashelhit timzgida, which would have been borrowed directly due to closer contact of Romance speakers with Aramaic-speaking Christians or due to the Aramaic form being passed on in colloquial Arabic still in foreign shape. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /meθˈkita/ [meθˈki.t̪a] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain) IPA(key): /mesˈkita/ [mesˈki.t̪a] (Latin America, Philippines) Rhymes: -ita Syllabification: mez‧qui‧ta === Noun === mezquita f (plural mezquitas) mosque (place of worship for Muslims) (by extension, obsolete) a Native American (especially Aztec) religious site (during the Spanish conquest of the Americas) 1520 October 30, Hernán Cortés, a letter about "la matanza de cholula", quoted in 1992, El genocidio en México durante la conquista (1519-1521): crónica: ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Asturian: mezquita → English: mezquita → Italian: meschita, moschea (see there for further descendants) → Tagalog: meskita === References === Al-Jallad, Ahmad (2017), “The Arabic of the Islamic Conquests: Notes on Phonology and Morphology based on the Greek Transcriptions from the First Islamic Century”, in Bulletin of School of African and Oriental Studies‎[1], volume 80, number 3, pages 419–439 === Further reading === “mezquita”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025