What is the ruling on calling one of the Muslim houses of worship a "church"?

It is not permissible to use the name "church" (الكنيسة) for a tent in the desert if the intention is to refer to a place of Christian worship. If the speaker intends to glorify the tent by likening it to a church, then this is forbidden due to the impermissibility of glorifying a church. If the intention is to demean the tent and those who go to it by likening it to a church, then this is prohibited because it involves belittling and disparaging people.

However, if the use of this name has an acceptable meaning in the speaker's dialect, such as intending to refer to entering the tent or hiding within it (as in "the deer kanasa" meaning it entered its dwelling), then there is no objection. This is because some scholars have mentioned that "al-Kinaas" refers to a deer's hiding place, and "takannasa" means to enter a tent or a palanquin.