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mosque

American  
[mosk, mawsk] / mɒsk, mɔsk /

noun

  1. a Muslim temple or place of public worship.

mosque British  
/ mɒsk /

noun

  1. Also called: masjid.   musjid.  a Muslim place of worship, usually having one or more minarets and often decorated with elaborate tracery and texts from the Koran

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mosque Cultural  

  1. A Muslim house of worship with at least one minaret, a tall, slender tower with balconies, used for calling the faithful to prayer.

Etymology

Origin of mosque

1600–10; earlier mosquee < Middle French < Italian moschea ≪ Arabic masjid, derivative of sajada to worship, literally, prostrate oneself; the -ee seems to have been taken as diminutive suffix and dropped

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Their funerals took place at a London mosque on Sunday.

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Their funerals will take place at a London mosque on Sunday.

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He emerges from a mosque in the heart of Gaziantep in south-east Turkey - not far from the Syrian border - wearing a black T-shirt with "Syria" written on the front.

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Though typically seen as a symbol for surrender, the white flags that have popped up across the province – on broken rooftops, along eroded riverbanks and outside mosques – are a call for international solidarity, protesters say.

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Hadi's body, which was brought to the capital on Friday, was buried at the central mosque of Dhaka University.

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