moska

From Danish moské, from French mosquée, from Italian moschea, ultimately from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid), literally ‘place of prostration’.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔska/

moska f (genitive singular mosku, plural moskur)

1. mosque

Declension of moska
f1	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	moska	moskan	moskur	moskurnar
accusative	mosku	moskuna	moskur	moskurnar
dative	mosku	moskuni	moskum	moskunum
genitive	mosku	moskunnar	moska	moskanna

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoskɑ/, [ˈmo̞s̠kɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -oskɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): mos‧ka

From dialectal Swedish måsk.

moska

1. crud (dirt, filth or refuse)

• “1. moska”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-12

Uncertain. May be an obscured diminutive from moukari with +‎ -ska. First attested in the 1900s (decade).

The sense of the "card game" may be figurative use as a reference to how lyödä (“to hit, strike”) is also used to mean "to play (a card)".

moska

1. a small sledgehammer
2. a certain card game similar to Durak

• “2. moska”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-12

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔska/
• Rhymes: -ɔska

moska f (genitive singular mosku, nominative plural moskur)

1. mosque