مسیت

Corrupted from Classical Persian مَسْجِد (masjid) / مزگت (mazget), ultimately from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid). Doublet of مسجد (masjid).

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مَسِیتّ • (masītt)

1. (Islam) mosque

• Uppsala University (2024) “مسیت”, in Southern Baluchi Dictionary (Webonary) (in Baluchi), Dallas, Texas, USA: SIL International, published 2019.

Semi-learned borrowing from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid), through Classical Persian مسجد (masjid) / مزگت (mazgit). Compare also Indic cognates Old Hindi मसीति (masīti), Old Marathi 𑘦𑘭𑘲𑘝𑘲 (masītī), likely from the same source.

مَسِیت (masīti) f (Gurmukhi ਮਸੀਤਿ)

1. mosque
   • 12th Century, Bābā Farīd Ganj śakar, Bait 194

     فریدا ایسا ہوءِ رہو ، جیسا ککھ مَسِیت

     farīdā aisā ho'i raho , jaisā kakkh masīti

• Punjabi: masīt

  Gurmukhi script: ਮਸੀਤ

  Shahmukhi script: مَسِیت

• “مسیت”, in Kalam Baba Farid, Bait (or page) 21, 12th Century.
• “مسیت”, in A Descriptive Grammar of Hindko, Panjabi, and Saraiki, volume 4 of Mouton-CASL Grammar Series, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2019, page 80

First attested as Old Punjabi مَسِیت (masīti). Compare Marathi मशीद (maśīd) and Rajasthani मसीद (masīd). Doublet of مَسْجِد (masjid).

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /mə.siːt̪ə̆/
• Rhymes: -iːt̪
• Hyphenation: مَ‧سِیت

مَسِیت • (masīt) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਮਸੀਤ)

1. (Islam) mosque

   Synonyms: مَسجِد (masjid), نَماز گاہ (namāz gāh)

   • 1993, Anvar ʻAlī, Nūrī‎, volume 2, →ISBN, page 100:

     "ایہنوں مسیت وچ وڑݨ نہیں دینا چاہِدا"۔

     ehnūṉ masīt vicc vaṛaṇ nahīṉ denā cāhidā.

     "He musn't be allowed inside the mosque".

• گِرجا (girjā), مَنْدِر (mandir), گُرُدْوارَہ (gurudvārah), عِبادَت گاہ (ʻibādat gāh)

• مَسِیتی (masītī)

• “مسیت”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2024
• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “مسِیت”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

Corrupted from Classical Persian مَسْجِد (masjid) / مزگت (mazget) (compare Old Punjabi مَسِیت (masīti)), ultimately from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid). Doublet of مَسْجِد (masjid).

• IPA^(key): /mə.siːt̪/

مَسِیت (masīt) f (Devanagari मसीत)

1. (Islam) mosque

• مَسِیتَر (masītar, “a mosque regular”)

• “مسیت”, in Dictionary of the Jatki Or Western Panjábi Language, United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2019 (originally published in 1900), →ISBN, page 287