Is it true that it is wrong to use the word “Mosque”?

[Haitham Hamdan]

I read that the word Mosque came from the word mosquito.

A crusader once said in a speech: I will crush Muslims like I crush a Mosquito.

So people started to call the Masjid = Mosque.

Is this true?

[Abu_Abdillah2000]

No. The word "mosque" is originally the french pronunciation of the spanish "mezquita", which the spanish obviously would have got from the Arabic "masjid", which would have been well-known to them while the Muslims were in al-Andalus.

[AhluSunnah]

There is also another story which goes as folowed: the Queen of England used to remark that the Muslims are going to their places of worship like the 'Mosquitos' to their homes, i.e. in thousands at a time, and from that time the people called the Masjids 'Mosques'.

See also; http://www.renaissance.com.pk/febq52y3.html

Wallahu a3lem.