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

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