mosk

See also: móšk

English

Noun

mosk (plural mosks)

1. Archaic form of mosque.
   • 1846, Henry Keppel, The Expedition to Borneo‎^[1], HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2007:

     Should the English hoist their flag here, a new factory must be erected; the most eligible situation for which would be where the mosk now stands, or the mosk itself might be converted into one, and another rebuilt elsewhere; but to this the sultan has insuperable objections. In an English fort, to think to have a mosk open to the ingress of a large body of Malays at all times is wholly incompatible with a certain reserve and security required from it.

   • 1900, Richard F. Burton, Supplement Nights to The Book of the Thousand And One Nights, Vol 6‎^[2], Online edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2002:

     Then I left the mosk and began to promenade the quarters and the streets ...

Anagrams

• KOMs, Moks, Omsk

West Frisian

Etymology

From Middle Dutch mussche, from Old Dutch musca, from Latin musca (“fly”).

Noun

mosk c (plural mosken, diminutive moskje)

1. sparrow

Further reading

• “mosk (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011