Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

رَوْسَبٌ ذ A calamity, or misfortune; (K;) as also رَوْسَمٌ. (TA.)

مِرْسَبٌ ذ : see رَسُوبٌ.

مَرَاسِبُ ذ i. q. أَوَاسٍ [pl. of اآسِيَةٌ, and app. here meaning Columns, or props ]. (K.)

مُتَرَسِّبٌ ذ : see رَسُوبِىٌّ.

رُسْتَاقٌ ذ : see رُزْدَاقٌ, in art. رزدق.

1 رَسحَ ذ , aor. رَسَحَ , inf. n. رَسَحٌ, (L, Msb,) He had little flesh, or was scant of flesh, in his posteriors and thighs: or he had small buttocks, sticking together: (L:) or he had little flesh in his thighs. (Msb.)

4 ارسح ذ It rendered a person scant of flesh in the posteriors (S, A) and thighs. (S.)

رَسَحٌ ذ Paucity of flesh in the posteriors (S, A, L, K) and thighs: (S, L, K:) or smallness of the buttocks, and their sticking together: (L:) or paucity of flesh in the thighs. (Msb.)

رَسِحٌ ذ Having little flesh in his thighs. (Msb.) [See also what follows.]

أَرْسَحُ ذ A man (S, L) having little flesh in his posteriors (S, A, L) and thighs: (S, L:) or having small buttocks, sticking together: (L:) fem. رَسْحَاآءُ; applied to a woman: (S, A, L:) pl. رُسْحٌ. (S, K.) [See also رَسِحٌ.] الأَرْسَحُ means The wolf: (TA:) [for] every wolf is [termed] أَرْسَح because of the lightness [of the flesh] of his haunches: (S, A, * K:) and so is the سِمْع [a mongrel beast, the offspring of a wolf begotten from the hyena]. (TA.) ― -b2- Also, the fem., A foul, an ugly, or an unseemly, woman: (K, TA:) though disapproved by MF. (TA.)

1 رَسَخَ ذ , (S, A, L, &c.,) aor. رَسَخَ , (A, Msb, JM, &c.,) inf. n. رُسُوخٌ, It (a thing, S, Msb) was, or became, firm, steady, steadfast, stable, fixed, fast, settled, or established, (S, A, L, Msb, K,) in its place. (L.) [Hence,] رَسَخَ الحِبْرُ فِى الصَّحِيفَةِ (tropical:) [ The ink became fixed upon the piece of paper or the like ]. (A, L.) And الرَّقُّ الدَّهِينُ لَا يُرْسَخُ فِيهِ الحِبْرُ (tropical:) [ Ink will not become fixed upon oiled parchment ]: (A:) or الوَرَقُ الدَّهِينُ [ oiled paper ]. (TA.) And رَسَخَ فِى العِلْمِ (tropical:) He became firmly rooted, or grounded, or established, in science, or knowledge. (L.) And العِلْمُ يَرْسَخُ فِى قَلْبِ الاـِنْسَانِ (tropical:) Science, or knowledge, becomes firmly rooted, or grounded, or fixed, in the heart of man. (L, A. *) And رَسَخَ حُبُّهُ فِى قَلْبِهِ (tropical:) [ The love of him, or it, became fixed in his heart ]. (A.) ― -b2- [Hence also,] said of a pool of water left by a torrent, (tropical:) It sank into the earth, and disappeared: (JK, A, K:) inf. n. as above. (JK, TA.) And, said of rain, (tropical:) It sank into the earth so that the two moistures [meaning that of the rain and that of the soil beneath ] met together. (A, K.) ― -b3- رَسْخٌ [as an inf. n.] signifies (assumed tropical:) The connexion of the soul of a human being, after its departure from the body, with an inanimate, not increasing, body: distinguished from نَسْخٌ, which is with the body of another human being: and from مَسْخٌ, which is with the body of a beast: and from فَسْخٌ, which is with a plant. (Marginal note in a copy of the KT.) But see 1 (last sentence) in art. فسخ

4 ارسخهُ ذ , (JK, K,) inf. n. اـِرْسَاخٌ, (TA,) He made it firm, steady, steadfast, stable, fixed, fast, settled, or established, (JK, K,) in its place. (JK.)

رَاسِخٌ ذ Anything firm, steady, steadfast, stable, fixed, fast, settled, or established [ in its place (see 1)]. (S, A, Msb.) You say جَبَلٌ رَاسِخٌ A firm, or steadfast, mountain. (A.) And in like manner دِمْنَةٌ رَاسِخَةٌ [ A black, or dark, patch of compacted dung and urine of cattle sticking fast upon the ground ]. (A.) And [hence,] لَهُ قَدَمٌ رَاسِخَةٌ فِى العِلْمِ (assumed tropical:) [ He has a firm footing in science, or knowledge; or] he possesses excellence, and large acquirements, in science, or knowledge. (Msb.) الرَّاسِخُونَ فِى العِلْمِ [in the Kur iii. 5 and iv. 160] means (tropical:) Those who are firmly rooted, or established, in science, or knowledge: (S, Bd, L, Jel, TA:) or who have made a firm advance therein: (L:) or who are far advanced therein: (Khálid Ibn-Jembeh:) or those who study the Book of God: (TA:) or those who have committed [ it ] to memory, and who call to mind [ its doctrines and precepts ] one with another. (IAar.)

رُسْدَاقٌ ذ : see رُزْدَاقٌ, in art. رزدق.

1 رَسَغَهُ ذ , aor. رَسَغَ , inf. n. رَسْغٌ, [ He tethered him by the fore legs; i. e.] he tied the رُسْغ [or pastern ] of each of his (a camel's [or an ass's]) fore legs with a string, or cord, which is called رُسْغٌ. (TA.)

2 رسّغ ذ , (S, Msb, &c.,) inf. n. تَرْسِيغٌ, (IAar, K,) said of rain, (S, Msb, K, &c.,) It rained so that the water reached to the رُسْغ [or pastern, or ankle ], (S,) or so that it reached to the place of the أَرْسَاغ [pl. of رُسْغٌ]: (Msb:) or it moistened the earth (IAar, K, TA) so that the hands of him who dug for it reached to his أَرْسَاغ [or wrists ]; (IAar, TA;) or so that the moisture reached to the measure of the رُسْغ [or wrist ] of the digger: (TA:) or it was so much that the رُسْغ [or pastern, or ankle, ] disappeared in it; as also ↓ ارسغ, a dial. var., on the authority of IAar. (TA.) -A2- تَرْسِيغٌ also signifies The making [the means of subsistence] ample, or abundant. (K.) You say, رسّغ العَيْشَ He made the means of subsistence ample, or abundant. (TK.) [Or رسّغ عَلَيْهِ فِى العَيْشِ He made ample, or abundant, provision for him in the means of subsistence: see the pass. part. n., below: and see also 8.] -A3- رسّغتُ كَلَامًا, (JK,) inf. n. as above, (K,) i. q. لَفَّقْتُ بَيْنَهُ [meaning I interlarded, or embellished, speech. or discourse, with falsehood: accord. to the TK, connected it, and arranged it, or put it in order: but see the pass. part. n., below]. (JK, K, * TA.)

3 راسغهُ ذ , (Ibn-'Abbád, K,) inf. n. مُرَاسَغَةٌ and رِسَاغٌ, (Lth, Ibn-'Abbád, K,) He took hold of his رُسْغ [meaning ankle ] in wrestling with him, the latter doing the like. (Lth, Ibn-'Abbád, K.) One says, رَادَغَهُ ثُمَّ رَاسَغَهُ ثُمَّ مَارَغَهُ [ He strove with him to throw him down: then he took hold of his ankle &c.: then he rolled with him on the ground, or in the dust ]. (TA.)

4 أَرْسَغَ see 2.

8 ارتسغ عَلَى عِيَالِهِ ذ He expended amply, or abundantly, upon his family, or household. (Ibn-Buzurj, K.) [See also 2.]

رُسْغٌ ذ and ↓ رُسُغٌ, (S, Msb, K,) of a دَابَّة [or beast of the equine kind], (S, Msb,) [The pastern; i.e.] the slender place [or part ] between the solid hoof and the joint of the وَظِيف [or shank ] of the fore leg, and of the hind leg; (S, Msb, K;) or, [in other words,] of solid-hoofed animals, the part that joins the وظيف of each of the fore legs, and of the hind legs, to the hoof; and of camels, the part that joins the أَوْظِفَة [or shanks ] to the أَخْفَاف [or feet ]: (TA:) and (Msb, and so in some copies of the K, but in other copies of the latter “ or, ” [which is more correct, as will be seen from what follows,]) of a human being, [the wrist, and the ankle; i. e.] the joint between the hand and the fore arm, and between the foot and the shank: (Msb, K, TA:) and of any beast (دابّه,) the like thereof; (K;) [the part between the shank and hoof or foot, in the fore leg and in the hind leg, of any quadruped:] pl. أَرْسَاغٌ [used as a pl. of mult. and of pauc.] (Msb, K) and أَرْسُغٌ [which is only a pl. of pauc.]. (K.) ― -b2- See also رِسَاغٌ: ― -b3- and see مِرْسَغَةٌ.

رَسَغٌ ذ A laxness in the legs of a camel. (As, S, K.)

رُسُغٌ ذ : see رُسْغٌ

رِسَاغٌ ذ A cord, or rope, that is tied (JK, S, K) firmly (S) to the رُسْغ [or pastern ] of the camel, (JK, S, K,) or, accord. to the T, to each رُسْغ, [the dual form being there used, meaning to the pastern of each fore leg, ] of the camel, (TA,) to prevent him from going away; (S, K;) also called ↓ مِرْسَغَةٌ; of which the pl. is مَرَاسِغُ: (JK:) or, as some say, رسَاغٌ is pl. of ↓ رُسْغٌ meaning a cord, or rope, with which a camel, and an ass, is [ tethered, or] shackled; or a string, or cord, with which the رُسْغ [or pastern ] of each of the fore legs of a camel [or an ass ] is tied. (TA.) ― -b2- Also an inf. n. of 3.

عَيْشٌ رَسِيغٌ ذ Ample, or abundant, means of subsistence: and طَعَامٌ رَسِيغٌ Much food or wheat. (Aboo-Málik, K.)

مِرْسَغَةٌ ذ sing. of مَرَاسِيغُ [probably a mistranscription for مَرَاسِغُ] meaning [ Bracelets of tortoiseshell or horn or ivory, such as are termed ] مَسَك, that are worn by women on their arms; one of which is also called ↓ رُسْغٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- See also رِسَاغٌ.

هُوَ مُرَسَّغٌ عَلَيْهِ فِى العَيْشِ ذ He is amply, or abundantly, provided for in respect of the means of subsistence. (JK, * TA.) -A2- رَأْىٌ مُرَسَّغٌ An unsound opinion or counsel or advice. (JK, Ibn- 'Abbád, K.)

1 رَسَفَ ذ , aor. رَسُفَ and رَسِفَ , inf. n. رَسْفٌ and رَسَفَانٌ (S, M, O, Msb, K) and رَسِيفٌ, (M, O, Msb, K,) He walked, or went along, in the manner of him who is shackled: (S, M, O, K:) or he walked, or went along, in shackles, gently, softly, or in a leisurely manner: (M:) or you say, رَسَفَ فِى قَيْدِهِ he walked, or went along, in his shackles: (MA, Msb:) or he went along [ therein ] by leaps; or gently. (MA.) رَسِيفٌ also signifies The making short steps. (O.) And رَسَفَ, aor. رَسُفَ , He (a camel) went with short steps, raising and putting down his feet quickly. (Aboo-Nasr, O.)

4 أَرْسَفْتُ الاـِبِلَ ذ , (AZ, S,) inf. n. اـِرْسَافٌ, (K,) I drove along the camels, they being shackled. (AZ, S, K. * [In one of my copies of the S, instead of مُقَيَّدَةً, I find مُقَيَّدًا, i.e. I being shackled. ])

8 ارتسف ذ , inf. n. اِرْتِسَافٌ; (K; so in MS. copies, and so in the CK;) or ↓ اِرْتَسَفَّ, in measure like اِكْفَهَرَّ, inf. n., اِرْتِسْفَافٌ; (O, and in like manner in the TK;) i. q. اِرْتَفَعَ [ It became raised; or it rose: &c.]. (O, K.)

R. Q. 4 اِرْتَسَفَّ ذ : see what next precedes. [This art. is wanting in the copies of the L and TA to which I have had access.]

1 رَسِلَ ذ , aor. رَسَلَ , inf. n. رَسَلٌ and رَسَالَ, He (a camel) was, or became, easy in pace. (M, K.) ― -b2- Also, aor. رَسَلَ , inf. n. رَسَلٌ (AZ, Az, Msb, K) and رَسَالَةٌ, as above, (AZ, Az, K,) It (hair) became lank, not crisp; (Msb, K;) and so ↓ استرسل: (S, K:) or lank and pendent: (Msb:) or long, and lank or pendent. (AZ, Az, Msb.) لَا يَجِبُ مِنَ البِّحْيَةِ ↓ غَسْلُ مَا ا@سْتَرْسَلَ means [ The washing ] of what hangs down, and descends, [ of the beard, ] from the chin [ is not requisite, or necessary, or incumbent ]. (Mgh.) -A2- [Golius says, as on the authority of the KL, that رَسَلَ signifies Nuncium misit: but what I find in the KL is, that رَسُولٌ, as an inf. n., signifies the bringing a message (Pيغام بردن) : whence it seems that رَسَلَ means he brought a message. ]

2 تَرْسِيلٌ ذ , in reading, or reciting, (Msb, K,) i. q. تَرْتِيلٌ; (K, TA;) i. e. (TA) Easy [or leisurely ] utterance; without haste: (Yz, Msb, TA:) or, as some say, with consecution of the parts, or portions: (TA:) and ↓ تَرَسُّلٌ therein signifies the same: (Yz, Msb:) or فِى ↓ تَرَسَّلَ قِرّاآءَتِهِ signifies he proceeded in a leisurely manner in his reading, or reciting, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) and was grave, staid, sedate, or calm, (Mgh,) and endeavoured to understand, without raising his voice much. (TA.) It is said in a trad., كَانَ فِى كَلَامِهِ تَرْسِيلٌ i. e. تَرْتِيلٌ [ There was in his (Mohammad's) speech an easy, or a leisurely, utterance ]. (TA.) And in another trad. it is said, وَاـِذَا أَقَمْتَ فَا@حْذِمْ ↓ اـذَا أَذَّنْتَ فَتَرَسَّلْ [expl. in art. حذم]. (Mgh.) -A2- See also 4, last sentence but one. -A3- رَسَّلْتُ فُصْلَانِى, inf. n. تَرْسِيلٌ, I gave to drink [ to my young camels, or my young weaned camels, ] رِسْل (K, TA,) i. e. milk. (TA.)

3 راسلهُ ذ (S, MA,) inf. n. مُرَاسَلَةٌ, (S,) He sent a message, and a letter, or an epistle, to him, (MA, PS,) the latter doing the like: (PS:) [ he interchanged messages, and letters, with him. ] You say, راسلهُ فِى كَذَا [ He interchanged messages, or letters, with him, in relation to such a thing ]: and بَيْنَهُمَا مُرَاسَلَاتٌ [ Between them two are interchanges of messages, or of letters ]. (TA.) And هَىَ تُرَاسِلُ الخُطَّابَ [ She interchanges messages, or letters, with those who demand women in marriage ]. (M, K.) And تُرَاسِلُهُ بِالخُطَّابِ [ She interchanges messages, or letters, with him by means of those who demand women in marriage ]. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] راسلهُ فِى نِضَالٍ أَوْ غَيْرِهِ [ He acted interchangeably, or alternated, with him in a competition in shooting, or in some other performance ]. (S.) And راسلهُ فِى الغِنَاآءِ, and العَمَلِ, He relieved him, or aided him, in singing, and in work, [ by alternating with him, i. e.,] in the former case, by taking up the strain when the latter was unable to continue it [ so as to accomplish the cadence (see 6)], and in the latter case by taking up the work when the latter person was unable to continue it; or he so relieved, or aided, him in singing with a high voice: or راسلهُ فِى عَمَلِهِ he aided him, [or relieved him, by alternating with him, ] or he followed him, or imitated him, in his work: (IAar, Msb:) and راسلهُ الغِنَاآءَ he emulated him, or imitated him, [ by alternating with him, ] in the singing. (TA.) And راسلهُ فِى القِرَاآءَة He aided him, or assisted him, [or relieved him, by alternating with him, ] in the reading, or reciting, of the Kur-án &c. (MA.)

4 اـِرْسَالٌ ذ signifies The act of sending. (K, KL, &c.) Thus is explained اـِرْسَالُ ا@للّٰهِ أَنْبِيَاآءَهُ [i. e. God's sending his prophets. ] (Th, TA.) You say, ↓ أَرْسَلْتُ فُلَانًا فِى رِسَالَةٍ (S) I sent such a one with a message. (PS.) And ↓ ارسل اـِلَيْهِ رَسُولًا (MA, Msb *) He sent to him a message, or a letter, (MA,) or a messenger. (Msb.) ― -b2- [The act of sending forth, or starting, a horse for a race: the discharging a thing; as, for instance, an arrow from a bow; and water, or the like, from a vessel &c. in which it was confined: the launching forth a ship or boat; letting it go; letting it take its course: ] the act of setting loose or free; letting loose; loosing, unbinding, or liberating. (K.) You say ارسل الشَّىْءَ He set loose or free, &c., the thing. (M.) And أَرْسَلْتُ الطَّائِرَ مِنْ يَدِى I let go, or let loose, the bird from my hand. (Msb.) And [hence,] ارسل الحُرُوفَ [ He uttered the letters ]. (Mgh in art. رتل.) And ارسل الغِنَاآءَ [ He uttered the song; he sang ]. (TA.) And ارسل الاـِقَامَةَ [ He chanted the اقامة]. (Msb in art. درج. [See أَدْرَجَ.]) And ارسل عَلَيْهِ لِسَانَهُ [(assumed tropical:) He let loose his tongue against him ]. (A in art. برد.) And ارسل الكَلَامَ (assumed tropical:) He made the speech, or language, to be unrestricted. (Msb.) [In like manner,] اـِرْسَالٌ signifies also (assumed tropical:) The making a thing, such as property, and a legacy, absolute, or unrestricted. (Mgh.) ― -b3- [The act of letting down, letting fall, or making to hang down, the hair &c. You say, ارسلهُ, and ارسلهُ مِنْ أَعْلَى اـِلَى أَسْفَلَ, He let it down, &c., or lowered it. ] ― -b4- (assumed tropical:) The act of leaving, leaving alone, or neglecting, (M, K,) a thing. (M.) [Hence,] one says, ارسلهُ عَنْ يَدِهِ (tropical:) He left, forsook, or deserted, him; or he abstained from, or neglected, aiding him, or assisting him. (TA.) ― -b5- Also The act of making to have dominion, or authority, and power; making to have, or exercise, absolute dominion or sovereignty or rule, or absolute superiority of power or force; or giving power, or superior power or force. (M, K.) Hence, in the Kur [xix. 86], أَرْسَلْنَا الشَّيَاطِينَ عَلَى الكَافِرِينَ تَؤُزُّهُمْ أَزًّا, i. e. [ We have made the devils to have dominion, &c., over the unbelievers, inciting them strongly to acts of disobedience; or] we have appointed, or prepared, the devils for the unbelievers, because of their unbelief; like as is said in the same [xliii. 35], نُقَيِّضْ لَهُ شَيْطَانًا [“ We will appoint, or prepare, for him a devil ” as an associate]: this is the preferred explanation: [or it may be well rendered we have sent the devils against the unbelievers: ] some say that the meaning is, we have left the devils to do as they please with the unbelievers, not withholding them, or preserving them, from acceptance from them. (Zj, M.) -A2- ارسلوا [from رِسْلٌ] They had milk in their cattle: (S:) or their milk became much; as also ↓ رسّلوا, inf. n. تَرْسِيلٌ: (K:) or the latter signifies their milk and drink became much. (TA.) ― -b2- Also [from رَسَلٌ] They became possessors of herds or flocks. (O, K. *)

5 ترسّل ذ He acted, or behaved, gently, and deliberately, or leisurely, (M, K, TA,) and with gravity, staidness, sedateness, or calmness. (TA.) التَّرَسُّلُ فِى الأُمُورِ is The acting, or behaving, [ gently, and] deliberately, or leisurely, and with gravity, staidness, sedateness, or calmness, in affairs. (TA.) See also 2, in three places. ― -b2- التَّرَسُّلُ in riding is The extending one's legs upon the beast so as to let, or make, his clothes hang down loosely upon his legs: and in sitting, the crossing one's legs, and letting, or making, his clothes hang down loosely upon them and around him. (TA.) -A2- ترسّلا بَيْنَ القَوْمِ [ He acted as a رَسُول (or messenger ) between the people ]. (Msb and TA in art. الك.)

6 تراسلوا ذ They sent, one to another, (MA, Msb, TA,) a message [or messages ], (MA, Msb,) or a messenger [or messengers ]. (Msb.) ― -b2- Hence, تراسلوا فِى الغِنَاآءِ [ They relieved, or aided, one another alternately in singing; ] i. e. they combined in singing, one beginning, and prolonging his voice, but being unable to continue long enough to accomplish the cadence, and therefore pausing, and another then taking up the strain, and then the first returning to the modulation, and so on to the end. (Msb.) لَا تَرَاسُلَ فِى الأَذَانِ means [in like manner] There shall be no relieving, or aiding, one another [ alternately ], i. e., no combining [ of two or more persons, each performing a part alternately ], in the chanting of the call to prayer. (Msb.) [In other cases likewise] التَّرَاسُلُ signifies The doing the like of that which one's companion, or fellow, [or another, ] does, in such a manner as that one follows another [ alternately ]. (Har p. 268.)

10 استرسل ذ It (a thing) was, or became, loose, or slack; syn. سَلِسَ. (M, TA.) ― -b2- Said of hair: see 1, in two places. [In like manner said of a tree, &c., It drooped; or was pendent. Said of a cheek, (to which its part. n. مُسْتَرْسِلٌ is applied as an epithet in the K voce أَسِيلٌ,) It was, or became, lank. ] ― -b3- الاِسْتِرْسَالُ in the pace of a beast is The going gently, deliberately, or leisurely. (TA.) [And you say, استرسلت الدَّابَّةٌ The beast went a gentle, deliberate, or leisurely, pace. ] ― -b4- Also, [in other cases,] The being still, and steady. (TA.) ― -b5- Hence, (TA,) استرسل اـِلَيْهِ (tropical:) He acted, or behaved, towards him with freedom, boldness, forwardness, or presumptuousness, and with familiarity; syn. اِنْبَسَطَ, and اِسْتَأْنَسَ; (S, K, TA;) and was at ease, and confided in him, with respect to that which he told him: (TA:) or he acted forwardly, or impudently, towards him: he acted forwardly, impudently, freely, or familiarly, towards him, in the way of coquetry, or feigned disdain. (MA.) ― -b6- And استرسل الدَّهْرُ فِيهِمْ فَأَفْنَاهُمْ [(assumed tropical:) Fate made free with them, and destroyed them ]. (TA in art. بهل) -A2- Also He said, Send thou to me the camels in droves (أَرْسَالًا [in the CK, erroneously, اِرْسالًا]); (K, TA;) ارسالا being with fet-h to the hemzeh; i. e. drove after drove: for the camels, when they come to the water, are numerous; and their tender brings them to the watering-trough thus; not all together, as in this case they would press together upon the watering-trough and not satisfy their thirst. (TA.)

رَسْلٌ ذ Easy; applied to a pace. (M, K.) ― -b2- Easy in pace; applied to a he-camel: fem. with ة: (S, M, K:) or soft, or gentle, in pace; applied to a he-camel and to a she-camel: (Msb:) and ↓ مِرْسَالٌ, also, applied to a she-camel, has the former of these significations; and its pl. is مَرَاسِيلُ: (S, K:) or this pl. signifies light, or active, she-camels, that give thee what they have to give spontaneously; and رَسْلَةٌ is applied to one thereof: a she-camel is termed ↓ مِرْسَالٌ as being likened to the arrow thus called. (TA.) ― -b3- Soft, and lax, or flaccid: [app. applied to a he-camel; for it is added,] one says نَاقَةٌ رَسْلَةٌ القَوَائِمِ, meaning A she-camel loose, or slack, [ in the legs, and] soft in the joints [ thereof ]. (TA. [See also another meaning assigned to this phrase in what follows.]) ― -b4- Applied to hair, i. q. ↓ مُسْتَرْسِلٌ; (S, K; in the CK مُرْسَل;) which means Lank; not crisp: (Mgh, Msb: [and so accord. to an explanation of استرسل in the S and K:]) or lank and pendent: (Msb:) or long, and lank or pendent. (AZ, Az, Msb.) ― -b5- And رَسْلَةٌ, (M,) or رَسْلَةُ القَوائِمِ, [of which see an explanation in what precedes,] (L, TA,) and ↓ مِرْسَالٌ, applied to a she-camel, (M, L, TA,) Having much hair, (M,) or much and long hair, (L, TA,) upon her shanks, or hind legs (فِى سَاقِيْهَا): (M, L, TA:) but in the K, رَسْلَةٌ and ↓ مُرَاسِلٌ [not مِرْسَالٌ] are explained as epithets applied to a woman, meaning having much and long hair upon her shanks. (TA.) ― -b6- Also sing. of ↓ رِسَالٌ, (TA,) which signifies The legs of a camel: (AZ, S, K, TA:) so called because of their length. (AZ, TA.) -A2- See also مُرَاسِلٌ. -A3- And see the paragraph here next following.

رِسْلٌ ذ Gentleness; and a deliberate, or leisurely, manner of acting or behaving; as also ↓ رِسْلَةٌ; (M, K;) [and perhaps ↓ رَسْلٌ and ↓ رَسْلَةٌ; for] one says اِفْعَلْ كَذَا وَكَذَا عَلَى رِسْلِكَ (S, Mgh, * Msb, * CK * [but not in my MS. copy of the K nor in the copies used by SM]) and رَسْلِكَ and رَسْلَتِكَ, (CK, [but likewise wanting in MS. copies of the K,]) i. e. [ Do thou such and such things ] at thine ease; (Msb;) or act thou gently, deliberately, or leisurely, (S, Mgh, K, *) in doing such and such things; like as one says, عَلَى هِينَتِكَ. (S.) Sakhr-el-Ghei says, when despairing of his companions' overtaking him, his enemies surrounding him, and he feeling sure of slaughter, (M,) لَوْ أَنَّ حَوْلِى مِنْ قُرَيْمٍ رَجْلَا بِيضَ الوَجُوهِ يَحْمِلُونَ النَّبْلَا لَمَنَعُونِى نَجْدَةً أَوْ رِسْلَا (Skr, M, *) i. e. [ If there were around me, of the family of Kureym, men on foot, fair in the faces (app. meant tropically), bearing arrows, they would defend me ] by violent means or by gentle means: (Skr:) or with fighting or without fighting. (M.) [See also a phrase cited from a trad. in what follows of this paragraph.] One says also, ↓ جَاؤُوا رِسْلَةً رِسْلَةً They came company by company. (M.) ― -b2- And A soft, gentle, saying or speech. (TA.) -A2- Also Milk, (S, M, K,) of whatever sort it be: (M, K:) or, accord. to the Towsheeh, fresh milk. (TA.) One says, كَثُرَ الرِّسْلُ العَامَ, meaning Milk has become abundant this year: and the people of the desert assert that, when this is the case, dates are few; and that, when dates are abundant, milk is scarce. (TA.) ― -b2- It is said in a trad. [respecting the giving of the poor-rate], اـِلَّا مَنْ أَعْطَى فِى نَجْدَتِهَا وَرِسْلِهَا, (S, TA,) which is explained in two different ways: (TA:) [J says that] it is from رِسْلٌ in the sense first explained above; meaning straitness and plenty; i. e. Except him who gives when they are fat and goodly, when it is difficult, or hard, to their owner to give them forth, and when they are lean, [or] in a middling condition: (S:) and A'Obeyd says the like; and that it is similar to the saying, قَالَ فُلَانٌ كَذَا عَمَّا رِسْلِهِ, meaning Such a one said such a thing holding it (the saying) in light estimation: others say that it is from رِسْلٌ signifying “ milk; ” which A'Obeyd disallows: IAth says that what is meant by نجدة is straitness and drought or barrenness or dearth; and by رسل, plenty, and abundance of herbage or the like; because رسل, i. e. milk, is plentiful only in the case of abundance of herbage; so that the meaning is, except him who gives forth the due of God in the case of straitness and in that of plenty. (TA.) -A3- The رِسْلَانِ of a horse are The extremities of the عَضُدَانِ [or two arms ]. (M, K. *)

رَسَلٌ ذ Camels: (M, K:) thus expl. by A'Obeyd, without any epithet: (M:) or a drove, or herd, or a distinct collection or number, of camels, (S, M, * Msb, K,) and of sheep or goats, (S, K,) accord. to ISk from ten to twenty-five, (TA,) or the رَسَل of the watering-trough is at least ten, and extending to twenty-five; and the word is masc. and fem.; (M;) and also (assumed tropical:) of horses or horsemen; (S;) applied to (tropical:) a company of men (Mgh, Msb) as being likened to a drove, or herd, of camels: (Msb:) and also a distinct collection or number of any things: (M, K:) pl. أَرْسَالٌ. (S, M, Mgh, Msb, K.) A rájiz says, يَا ذَائِدَيْهَا خَوِّصَا بِأَرْسَالْ وَلَا تَذُودَاهَا ذِيَادَ الضُّلَّالْ [ O ye two drivers of them, water some before others, by droves, and drive them not with the driving of those who err from the right way ]: (S, TA:) i. e. bring near your camels some after some, and do not let them crowd upon the water-ing-trough. (TA.) And one says, جَاآءَتِ الاـِبِلُ رَسَلًا The camels came [ in a drove, or] following one another. (IAmb, TA.) And جَاآءَتِ الخَيْلُ أَرْسَالًا, i. e. (assumed tropical:) [ The horses, or horsemen, came ] in successive distinct companies. (S, TA.) And جَاءُوا أَرْسَالًا (tropical:) They (men) came in successive companies. (Msb. [And the like is said in the Mgh and in the TA.]) وَقِيرٌ كَثِيرُ الرَّسَلِ قَلِيلُ الرِّسْلِ, occurring in a trad. relating to a drought, is said by IKt to mean [ A collection of sheep or goats ] of which many were sent to the pasture, i. e. many in number, but having little milk but the more probable explanation of كثير الرسل is that of El-'Odhree, who says that it means much dispersed in search of pasture: for the trad. relates that the camels had died, notwithstanding their ability to endure drought: how then should the sheep or goats be safe, and increase so as to become numerous? (IAth, TA.) ― -b2- Also Animals, or beasts, having milk. (M, TA.)

رُسُلٌ ذ A young girl, that has not worn the [ muffler, or veil, called ] خَمَار. (K.) -A2- Also a pl. of رَسُولٌ. (S, M, &c.)

رَسْلَةٌ ذ A soft, or delicate condition of life: you say, هُمْ فِى رَسْلَةٍ مِنَ العَيْشِ They are in a soft, or delicate, condition of life. (M.) ― -b2- And Heaviness, sluggishness, laziness, or indolence: (M, K:) you say رَجُلٌ فِيهِ رَسْلَةٌ A man in whom is heaviness, &c. (M.) ― -b3- See also رِسْلٌ, first sentence.

رِسْلَةٌ ذ : see رِسْلٌ, in two places.

رِسَالٌ ذ : see رَسْلٌ (of which it is the pl.), near the end of the paragraph: -A2- and see also مُرَاسِلٌ.

رَسُولٌ ذ i. q. رِسَالَةٌ: (S, M, K:) see the latter, in five places. ― -b2- Hence, as meaning ذُو رَسُولٍ, i. e. ذُو رِسَالَةٍ [ One who has a message; i. e. a messenger ]; (TA;) i. q. ↓ مُرْسَلٌ, (S, M, K,) meaning one sent with a message; (S;) of the measure فَعُولٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ [or rather مُفْعَلٌ]: (Msb:) [and often meaning an apostle of God; and with the article ال especially applied to Mohammad:] accord. to IAmb, its meaning in the proper language of the Arabs is one who carries on by consecutive progressions the relation of the tidings of him who has sent him; taken from the phrase جَاآءَتِ الاـِبِلُ رَسَلًا, meaning “ The camels came following one another: ” and the saying of the Muëdhdhin, أَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا رَسُولُ ا@للّٰه means I know [or acknowledge ] and declare that Mohammad is the relater by consecutive progressions of the tidings from God: (TA:) [or, as commonly understood, I testify that Mohammad is the apostle of God: ] a رَسُول is also called ↓ مِرْسَالٌ, as being likened to the arrow thus termed: (TA:) the pl. of رَسُولٌ is رُسُلٌ (S, M, Msb, K) and رُسْلٌ (S, Msb) and رُسَلَاآءٌ, (M, K,) which last is from IAar, (M,) or Fr, (Sgh,) and أَرْسُلٌ, (M, K,) which [is a pl. of pauc., and] occurs in the saying of the Hudhalee, لَوْكَانَ فِى قَلْبِى كَقَدْرِ قُلَامَةٍ حُبًا لِغَيْرِكِ قَدْ أَتَاهَا أَرْسُلِى [ Had there been in my heart as much as a nailparing of love for another than thee, my messengers (or, accord. to the TA, app., my messages ) had come to her ]: respecting which IJ says that he has given to رَسُولٌ this form of pl., which is [regularly] proper to feminines [of this class of words, consisting of four letter whereof the third is a letter of prolongation], such as أَتَانٌ and عَنَاقٌ and عُقَابٌ, because women are meant thereby, as they, generally, are the persons required to serve in cases of this kind: (M:) [for] رَسُولٌ is applied without variation to a male and a female, and to one [and to two] and to a pl. number; (S, M, Msb, K;) sometimes: (M:) i. e., it is allowable thus to apply it: (Msb:) hence, (S, K,) in the Kur [xxvi. 15], (S,) اـِنَّا رَسُولُ رَبِّ العَالَمِينَ [ Verily we are the apostles of the Lord of the beings of the whole world ]: (S, K:) MF says, in ch. xx. [verse 49], we find اـِنَّا رَسُولَا رَبِّكَ [ Verily we are the two apostles of thy Lord ]; the dual form being here used: and Z says, in the Ksh, that in this instance it means the messengers, and therefore the dual form is necessarily used; but in ch. xxvi. it means the message, and therefore it is allowable to use it alike, when applying it as an epithet, as sing. and dual and pl.: Aboo-Is-hak the Grammarian says that the meaning here is, اـِنَّا رِسَالَةٌ رَبِّ العَالَمِينَ, i. e. ذَوُو رِسالَةِ [ Verily we are those that have the message &c.]: (TA:) [but] رَسُولٌ [as meaning a messenger ] is like عَدُوٌّ and صَديقٌ [&c.] in its being used alike as masc. and fem. and sing. [and dual] and pl.: (Sgh, TA:) Aboo-Dhu-eyb uses it in the sense of رُسُل in his saying, أَلِكْنِى اـِلَيْهَا وَخَيْرُ الرَّسُو لِ أَعْلَمُهُمْ بِنَوَاحِى الخَبَرْ [ Be thou my messenger to her: and the best of messengers is the most knowing of them in respect of the bounds, or limits, of the tidings ]. (M.) See 4. The saying in the Kur [xxv. 39], وَقَوْمَ نُوحٍ لَمَّ كَذَّبُوا الرُّسُلَ أَغْرَقْنَاهُمْ [lit. And the people of Noah, when they charged with lying the apostles, we drowned them ], Zj says, may mean that they charged with lying Noah alone; for he who charges with lying a prophet charges therewith all the prophets, since they believe in God and in all his apostles; or the general term may be here used as meaning one; like as when you say, أَنْتَ مِمَّنْ يُنْفِقُ الدَّرَاهِمَ, meaning “ Thou art of those who expend the kind of things termed دراهم. ” (M.) ― -b3- One says also, السِّهَامُ رُسُلُ المَنَايَا (tropical:) [ Arrows are the messengers of death, or of the decrees of death ]. (TA.) ― -b4- See also the next paragraph.

رَسِيلٌ ذ Easy: occurring in the saying of Jubeyhà El-Asadee, وَقُمْتُ رَسِيلًا بِالَّذِى جَاآءَ يَبْتَغِى اـِلَيْهِ بَلِيجَ الوَجْهِ لَسْتُ بِبَاسِرِ [ And I undertook, or managed, with ease, that which he came seeking to obtain; bright in countenance to him: I was not frowning ]. (TA.) -A2- Also A stallion-camel (K, * TA) of the Arabian race, that is sent among the شَوْل [or she-camels that have passed seven or eight months since the period of their bringing forth ] in order that he may leap them: one says, هٰذَا رَسِيلُ بَنِى فُلَانٍ This is the stallion of the camels of the sons of such a one: and أَرْسَلَ بَنُو فُلَانٍ رَسِيلَهُمْ [ The sons of such a one sent the stallion of their camels ]: as though it were of the measure فَعِيلٌ in the sense of the measure مُفْعَلٌ, from أَرْسَلَ. (TA.) ― -b2- And accord. to some, A horse that is started with another in a race. (Har p. 544.) ― -b3- [In the CK and in a MS. copy of the K, voce عَمُودٌ, it occurs as though meaning The scout, or emissary, or perhaps the advanced guard, of an army: but in other copies of the K, in this instance, accord. to the TA, and in the L, the word is رَئِيس.] ― -b4- I. q. ↓ مُرَاسِلٌ [as meaning one who interchanges messages or letters with another: see 3]. (S, K.) ― -b5- The person who stands with thee (المُوَاقِفُ لَكَ [in the K (in which this explanation is erroneously assigned to ↓ رَسُولٌ) المُوَافِقُ لَكَ in a competition in shooting and the like: (M:) [i. e.] رَسِيلُ الرَّجُلِ signifies he who stands with the man, (يَقِفُ مَعَهُ, Har p. 544,) or he who acts interchangeably, or alternates, with the man, (يُرَاسِلُهُ, S,) in a competition in shooting, or in some other performance. (S and Har.) And, as also ↓ مُرَاسِلٌ, One who relieves, or aids, another, in singing and in work, [ by alternating with him, i. e.,] in the former case, by taking up the strain when the other is unable to continue it [ so as to accomplish the cadence (see 6)], and in the latter case by taking up the work when the other is unable to continue it; or one who so relieves, or aids, another in singing with a high voice; i. q. مُتَالٍ: or one who aids another, [or relieves him, by alternating with him, ] or who follows him, or imitates him, in his work. (IAar, Msb.) One says, هُوَ رَسِيلُهُ فِى الغِنَاآءِ وَنَحْوِهِ [ He is the person who relieves him, or aids him, by alternating with him, in singing and the like thereof ]. (TA.) ― -b6- See also رِسَالَةٌ, in two places. -A3- Also Wide, or ample. (K.) ― -b2- A thing little in quantity, or incomplete: الشَّىْءُ اللَّطِيفُ in the copies of the K should be الشَّىْءُ الطَّفِيفُ, as in the Moheet (TA.) ― -b3- And Sweet water. (K.)

رَسَالَةٌ ذ : see the next paragraph.

رِسَالَةٌ ذ (S, M, Msb, K) and ↓ رَسَالَةٌ (M, K) and ↓ رَسُولٌ (S, M, Msb, K) and ↓ رَسِيلٌ (Th, M, K) signify the same, (S, M, Msb, K,) A message; and a letter; (MA in explanation of the first, and KL in explanation of the first and third;) [ a communication sent from one person or party to another, oral or written; ] substs. from أَرْسَلَ اـِلَيْهِ: (M, K: *) the pl. of the first is رَسَائِلُ; (Msb;) and أَرْسُلٌ is pl. of ↓ رَسُولٌ in the sense of رِسَالَةٌ, and of the fem. gender. (TA. [See the former of the two verses cited voce رَسُولٌ.]) You say, أَرْسَلْتُ فُلَانًا فِى رِسَالَةٍ: (S:) and أَرْسَلَ اـِلَيْهِ ↓ رَسُولًا: (MA:) see 4. A poet says, (S,) namely El-Ash'ar El-Joafee, (TA,) ↓ أَلَا أَبْلغْ أَبَا عَمْرٍو رَسُولًا بِأَنِّى عَنْ فُتَاحَتِكُمْ غَنِىُّ [ Now deliver thou to Aboo-' Amr a message, saying that I am in no need of your judging ]: (S:) or بَنِى عَمْرٍو [ the sons of ' Amr ]: he means, عَنْ حُكْمكُمْ. (TA.) And hence the saying of Kutheiyir, لَقَدْ كَذَبَ الوَاشُونَ مَا بُحْتُ عِنْدَهُمْ ↓ بِسِرٍّ وَلَا أَرْسَلْتُهُمْ بِرَسُولِ [ Assuredly the slanderers have lied: I revealed not in their presence a secret, nor did I send them with a message ]: (S, TA:) or, as some relate the second hemistich, (TA,) ↓ بِلَيْلَى وَلَا أَرْسَلْتُهُمْ بِرَسِيلِ [i. e. I revealed not the case of Leyla, nor did I send them with a message ]: thus cited by Th. (M, TA.) ― -b2- رِسَالَةٌ also signifies [ A tract, or small treatise or discourse; ] a مَجَلَّة [i. e. book, or writing, relating to science, or on any subject. ] comprising a few questions, inquiries, or problems, of one kind: pl. رَسَائِلُ. (TA.) ― -b3- And Apostleship; the apostolic office or function. (MA.) ― -b4- أُمُّ رِسَالَةَ [in a copy of the K أُمُّ رِسَالَةٍ] The رَخَمَة [or female of the vultur percnopterus, in the CK رَحْمَة]: (M, K, TA:) a surname thereof. (TA.)

الرُّسَيْلَى ذ A certain small beast or reptile or insect; expl. by the word دُوَيْبَّةٌ: (M, K, TA:) in [some of] the copies of the K, erroneously, الرُّسَيْلَاآءُ. (TA.)

رُسَيْلَاتٌ ذ dim. of رسلات [i. e. رِسَلَاتٌ] pl. of رِسْلٌ [or rather of its syn. رِسْلَةٌ]: hence the saying, (TA,) أَلْقَى الكَلَامَ عَلَى رُسَيْلَاتِهِ, i. e. He held the saying, or speech, in light, or little, or mean, estimation; or in contempt. (M, K, TA.)