رسول

Compare أَرْسَلَ (ʔarsala, “to send”).

• IPA^(key): /ra.suːl/

رَسُول • (rasūl) m (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 اللّٰهِ ― rasūlu llāhi ― Messenger of God (Muhammad)

      اَلرَّسُول ― ar-rasūl ― the Messenger (Muhammad)

   2. (Christianity) an apostle (leading disciple of Jesus)

      بُولُسُ الرَسُول ― būlusu r-rasūl ― Paul the Apostle

      أَعْمَالُ الرُّسُل ― ʔaʕmālu r-rusul ― Acts 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

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• لَا إِلٰهَ إِلَّا اللّٰه مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ اللّٰه (lā ʔilāha ʔillā llāh muḥammadun rasūlu llāh)

• Hindustani

  → Hindi: रसूल (rasūl)

  → Urdu: رسول

• → Malay: rasul
  • Indonesian: rasul
  • → Maguindanao: rasul
• → Maranao: rasol
• → Ottoman Turkish: رسول (resul)
  • Turkish: resul
• → Rohingya: rosúl
• → Swahili: rasuli

• نَبِيّ (nabiyy)

اَلرَّسُول • (ar-rasūl) m

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

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

رسول (plural رسول-رسول or رسول٢)

1. Jawi spelling of rasul.‎

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

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)

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

• Turkish: resul

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “resul”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3960b
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “resûl”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1064
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “رسول”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 621b
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Propheta”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1383
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “رسول”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2315
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “resul”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “رسول”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 974b

Borrowed from Arabic رَسُول (rasūl).

رسول • (rasul) (plural رسل (rosol), or رسولان)

1. messenger

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

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɾə.suːl/

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• Rhymes: -uːl

رَسُول • (rasūl) m (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

• “رسول”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “رسول”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]