رحيم

فَعِيل (faʕīl)-type stative-verb derived from the active participle from the verb رَحِمَ (raḥima, “to be merciful”).

• IPA^(key): /ra.ħiːm/
• Rhymes: -iːm

رَحِيم • (raḥīm) (feminine رَحِيمَة (raḥīma), masculine plural رَحِيمُون (raḥīmūn) or رُحَمَاء (ruḥamāʔ), feminine plural رَحِيمَات (raḥīmāt), elative أَرْحَم (ʔarḥam))

1. merciful
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 5:98:

     اِعْلَمُوا أَنَّ اللَّهَ شَدِيدُ الْعِقَابِ وَأَنَّ اللَّهَ غَفُورٌ رَحِيمٌ

     iʕlamū ʔanna l-laha šadīdu l-ʕiqābi waʔanna l-laha ḡafūrun raḥīmun

     Know that Allah is severe in punishment and that Allah is forgiving and merciful

2. compassionate
3. beneficent
4. related by blood
5. sincere in friendship

• بِسْمِ ٱللّٰهِ ٱلرَّحْمٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ (bismi llāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīmi)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “رحيم”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “رحم”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

From Arabic رَحِيم (raḥīm).

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رحيم • (raḥīm) (masculine plural رحما (ruḥamā))

1. merciful
2. compassionate

• Hinds, Martin, Badawi, El-Said (1986) “ر ح م”, in A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic‎, Beirut: Librairie du Liban, page 330