In Qur’anic Arabic, the word أَقْصَى (transliterated as AqSā) generally means “farthest,” “most distant,” or “furthest away.” This is most famously seen in the phrase المسجد الأقصى (al-masjid al-AqSā), which appears in Sūrat al-Isrā’ (17:1) and is typically translated as “the Farthest Mosque.”