mansigit
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- mansiguir, mansiguit – obsolete, Abecedario orthography
- mansigid
Etymology
From Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid), possibly via Maranao masgit. Doublet of masjid.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: man‧si‧git
- IPA(key): /manˈsiɡit/, [mɐnˈsi.ɣɪt]
Noun
mansigit (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜈ᜔ᜐᜒᜄᜒᜆ᜔)
- (Islam, obsolete) mosque
- Synonyms: moske, meskita, templo, simbahan, pook dalanginan
Further reading
- Fr. Juan José de Noceda; Fr. Pedro de Sanlucar (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves (in Spanish & Tagalog), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
- Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2013) Arabic and Persian Loanwords in Tagalog, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 142