mezquita

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  A Moorish or Spanish mosque.

Etymology
Usually claimed as being from, which is however phonologically difficult, so Al-Jallad (2017) suggests that it is a better match for , which he also posits as the source of 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, which would have been borrowed directly due to closer contact of Romance speakers with Aramaic-speaking Christians or due to the Aramaic form being passed on in colloquial Arabic still in foreign shape.

Noun

 * 1) mosque
 * 2)  a Native American (especially Aztec) religious site
 * 3) * 1520 October 30, Hernán Cortés, a letter about "la matanza de cholula", quoted in 1992, El genocidio en México durante la conquista (1519-1521): crónica:
 * "es"

- "...y certifico a vuestra alteza que yo conté desde una mezquita a cuatrocientos una mezquita y tantas torres en dicha ciudad, y todas son de mezquitas..."