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Subject: Re: Wot's a Masjid (Was Re: A look into Islamic banking)
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Date: 3 Dec 90 15:51:05 GMT
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Salaam all,
           I forgot to mention that I have had a couple of people mail me and
explain that mosque is basically derived from the word masjid; it comes through
the Spanish mesquita or something like that; Ive lost the ref.. sorry !

So basically it's the closest phonetically to masjid that Spanish could get.

Presumably it worked its way from Spain to France.


Fazal.