رسول

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ARABIC LIGATURE RASOUL ISOLATED FORM

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Arabic

Etymology

Root
ر س ل (r s l)
10 terms

Compare أَرْسَلَ (ʔarsala, to send).

Pronunciation

Noun

رَسُول (rasūlm (plural رُسُل (rusul))

  1. messenger; emissary; envoy; delegate
    Synonyms: مُرْسَل (mursal), قَيْنَاب (qaynāb), قَانِب (qānib), فَيْج (fayj), فُرَانِق (furāniq)
  2. (religion) messenger, apostle
    1. (Islam) a prophet who is sent by God with a mission (precise definitions vary)
      Synonym: مُرْسَل (mursal)
      رَسُولُ اللّٰهِrasūlu llāhiMessenger of God (Muhammad)
      اَلرَّسُولar-rasūlthe Messenger (Muhammad)
    2. (Christianity) an apostle (leading disciple of Jesus)
      بُولُسُ الرَسُولbūlusu r-rasūlPaul the Apostle
      أَعْمَالُ الرُّسُلʔaʕmālu r-rusulActs of the Apostles
  3. angel
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 42:51:
      وَمَا كَانَ لِبَشَرٍ أَن يُكَلِّمَهُ اللَّهُ إِلَّا وَحْيًا أَوْ مِن وَرَاءِ حِجَابٍ أَوْ يُرْسِلَ رَسُولًا فَيُوحِيَ بِإِذْنِهِ مَا يَشَاءُ ۚ إِنَّهُ عَلِيٌّ حَكِيمٌ
      wamā kāna libašarin ʔan yukallimahu l-lahu ʔillā waḥyan ʔaw min warāʔi ḥijābin ʔaw yursila rasūlan fayūḥiya biʔiḏnihi mā yašāʔu ʔinnahu ʕaliyyun ḥakīmun
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Hindustani
    Hindi: रसूल (rasūl)
    Urdu: رسول
  • Malay: rasul
  • Maranao: rasol
  • Ottoman Turkish: رسول (resul)
  • Rohingya: rosúl
  • Swahili: rasuli

See also

Proper noun

اَلرَّسُول (ar-rasūlm

  1. (Islam) Muhammad (the Messenger)
    • Qur'an 4:170
      يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ قَدْ جَاءَكُمُ الرَّسُولُ بِالْحَقِّ مِن رَّبِّكُمْ فَآمِنُوا خَيْرًا لَّكُمْ
      yā ʔayyuhā n-nāsu qad jāʔakumu ar-rasūlu bi-l-ḥaqqi min rabbikum faʔāminū ḵayran lakum
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

References

  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “رسل”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Malay

Noun

رسول

  1. Jawi spelling of rasul‎.

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic رَسُول (rasūl, messenger, apostle).

Noun

رسول (resul) (definite accusative رسولی (resulı), plural رسل (rüsül) or رسلا (rüselâ))

  1. messenger, emissary, envoy, a person appointed to bring messages
    Synonyms: ایلچی (elçi), خبرجی (haberci)
  2. (Islam) prophet, messenger, someone who speaks by divine inspiration
    Synonyms: پیغامبر (peygamber), نبی (nebi), یالاواج (yalavac)
  3. (Christianity) Apostle, any of the group of twelve disciples chosen by Jesus
    Synonyms: پیغامبر (peygamber), یالاواج (yalavac)

Derived terms

  • رسولی (resuli, quality or function of an envoy)

Descendants

Further reading

Persian

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Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic رَسُول (rasūl).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? rasūl
Dari reading? rasūl
Iranian reading? rasul
Tajik reading? rasul

Noun

Dari رسول
Iranian Persian
Tajik расул

رسول (rasul) (plural رسل (rosol) or رسولان (rasulân))

  1. messenger

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian رَسُول (rasūl), from Arabic رَسُول (rasūl). First attested in c. 1500 as Middle Hindi رسول (rsvl).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

رَسُول (rasūlm (formal plural رُسُل (rusul), Hindi spelling रसूल)

  1. (Islam) Messenger, prophet
    Synonyms: پَیغَمْبَر (paiġambar), نَبی (nabī)
    رسول اللہ ﷺ
    rasūl ullāh (SAW)
    Prophet of God (PBUH)
  2. (by extension) Prophet Muhammad
  3. (Christianity) Apostle
    یوحنا رسول
    yūhannā rasūl
    John the Apostle

Declension

    Declension of رسول
singular plural
direct رَسُول (rasūl) رَسُول (rasūl)
oblique رَسُول (rasūl) رَسُولوں (rasūlõ)
vocative رَسُول (rasūl) رَسُولو (rasūlo)

References

  1. ^ رسول”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

Further reading

  • رسول”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “رسول”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]