mosque (place of worship for Muslims); a Native American (especially Aztec) religious site (during the Spanish conquest of the Americas)
“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” — (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Usually claimed as being from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid, “mosque”), which is however phonologically difficult, so Al-Jallad (2017) suggests that it is a better match for Aramaic 𐡌𐡎𐡂𐡃𐡀 (msgdʾ /masgəḏā/, “the mosque”), which he also posits as the source of Byzantine Greek μασγίδα (masgída) and Tashelhit timzgida, 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 stil