mezquita

English

Etymology

Spanish mezquita.

Noun

mezquita (plural mezquitas)

  1. (dated) A Moorish or Spanish mosque.

Asturian

Noun

mezquita f (plural mezquites)

  1. (Islam) mosque (a place of worship for Muslims)

Spanish

Etymology

From Andalusian Arabic, from Arabic مَسْجِد‎ (masjid, “mosque”, literally “place of prostration”), from the verbal root سَجَدَ‎ (sajada, “to prostrate, bow down”).

Pronunciation
  • (Castilian) IPA(key): /meθˈkita/, [meθˈkit̪a]
  • (Latin America) IPA(key): /mesˈkita/, [mesˈkit̪a]
  • Rhymes: -ita

Noun

mezquita f (plural mezquitas)

  1. mosque (place of worship for Muslims)
  2. (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:
      "...y certifico a vuestra alteza que yo conté desde una mezquita a cuatrocientos una mezquita y tantas torres en dicha ciudad, y todas son de mezquitas..."
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