مَسْجِد mosque in Arabic
مَسْجِد is how you say “mosque” in Arabic.
Root س ج د s-j-d. noun (place noun / ism makān). masjid.
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Meaning of mosque in Arabic
- mosque the ordinary word for a Muslim place of worship
- a place of prostration literal sense, built on the root's core meaning of bowing down or prostrating oneself
Example sentence
فَلَا يزَال بك حَتَّى يخْرجك من الْمَسْجِد
He persists with you until he drives you out of the mosque.
الْمَسْجِدِ the mosque
In the genitive after 'from', definite — the mosque. The place of worship he expels you from.
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How it is used
The root سجد centres on lowering and humbling oneself, whether by bending the head and body or, in prayer, by placing the forehead on the ground before God — this specific ritual act is سُجُود. From this literal sense of prostration, masjid denotes the place set aside for it: a mosque. The same root is used tropically of a camel lowering its head to be mounted, a palm tree bending under its fruit, or a ship leaning in the wind — all pictured as a kind of "bowing down."
Words from the same root
- سَجَدَ to be lowly, humble; to bend oneself down and put the forehead to the ground (form I verb)
- أَسْجَدَ to lower the head; to gaze steadily with lowered, languid eyelids (form IV)
- سَجْدَةٌ a single act of prostration
- سِجْدَةٌ a particular manner or kind of prostration
- سَجَّادَةٌ a small mat or rug spread out to prostrate on; prayer mat
- سَاجِدٌ one who is prostrating himself (active participle), plural سُجَّد/سُجُود
- سَجَّادٌ a man who prostrates himself often, i.e. very devout in prayer
More example sentences
فسأل عنه الشعبي، فقال ادخل المسجد، عافاك الله،
He asked about him to Al-Sha'bi, who said: Enter the mosque, may God protect you,
المَسْجِدَ the mosque
This noun is the place commanded to be entered, so it stands in the object form as the destination of the order. The 'the' makes it the definite, specific mosque.
فَوَجَدْتُهُ عَلَى بَابِ الْمَسْجِدِ،
So I found him at the door of the mosque.
الْمَسْجِدِ the mosque
This completes 'door of ___', and as the owning second half of the pairing it takes the genitive ending. It makes the whole 'the door of the mosque' phrase definite, the first half borrowing its specificity from here.
ثُمَّ يَدْخُلُ الْمَسْجِدَ وَالْرِّيشُ عَلَى رَأْسِهِ
Then he enters the mosque with the feathers on his head.
الْمَسْجِدَ the mosque
The al- marks this as the definite, specific mosque. It is the place entered, the receiver of the verb's action, so it takes the object case shown by the vowel on its end. It is the destination of the habitual entering.
Common questions
- How do you say "mosque" in Arabic?
- مَسْجِد (masjid).
- What does the root of masjid, س-ج-د, actually mean?
- It means to bow down or prostrate oneself in humility — the same root gives سجد (to prostrate) and سجادة (prayer mat); masjid literally means "a place of prostration."
Related words
Definitions summarised from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (E. W. Lane, 1863–1893).