mansigit

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• mansiguir, mansiguit — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
• mansigid, mansigir

Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid), possibly via Ta'izzi-Adeni (southern Yemeni) Arabic (noting retention of older *g) and then Maranao masgit. Compare Maguindanao mesjid, Sundanese masigit, and Malay masjid. Doublet of masjid and meskita.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /manˈsiɡit/ [mɐn̪ˈsiː.ɣɪt̪̚]
• Rhymes: -iɡit
• Syllabification: man‧si‧git

Noun

mansigit (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜈ᜔ᜐᜒᜄᜒᜆ᜔) (Islam, obsolete)

1. mosque

   Synonyms: moske, meskita, templo, simbahan, pook dalanginan

Related terms

• moske

Further reading

• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de; Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860), Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves, y coordinado por…, ultimamente aumentado y corregido por varios religiosos de la Orden de Agustinos calzados.‎ (overall work in Spanish and Classical Tagalog), Manila: Ramírez y Giraudier.
• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2013), Arabic and Persian Loanwords in Tagalog, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 142