mosque

noun
🔊/mɒsk/
🔊/mɑːsk/
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  1. a building where Muslims go to worship (= praise God)清真寺
    • We were woken by the call to prayer from a nearby mosque.我们被附近清真寺召集礼拜的声音吵醒了。
    Topics Religion and festivalsb2, Buildingsb2
    Word Originlate Middle English: from French mosquée, via Italian and Spanish from Egyptian Arabic masgid.