Glossary Term
Risk: Medium- Approved rendering
- kawtal
- Transliteration
- kawtal
- Rejected alternatives
- moosaale (mosque, never use)
Church
kawtal (‘gathering/assembly,’ from kawt-, ‘to gather’) is a native-rooted term for the church as gathered people, deliberately avoiding any Arabic-Islamic-institution vocabulary. Must remain clearly distinct from moosaale (mosque).
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