# رسن
## Arabic
### Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (lsn' /⁠rasan⁠/, “rope”), see Persian رسن (rasan). Also found as Hebrew רֶסֶן (resen) and rarely as Jewish Literary Aramaic רִסְנָא (risnā).

### Noun

رَسَن • (rasan) m (plural أَرْسُن (ʔarsun) or أَرْسَان (ʔarsān) or أَرْسِنَة (ʔarsina))
* noseband, the leadingrope over the nose of an animal

#### Derived terms

* مَرْسِن (marsin) and مِرْسَن (mirsan, “the part of the nose which is the place of the leadingrope”)
* رَسَنَ (rasana, “to tie with the leadingrope”)
* أَرْسَنَ (ʔarsana, “to tie with the leadingrope; to give the head to be tied by the leadingrope”)

### Verb

رَسَنَ • (rasana) I (non-past يَرْسُنُ (yarsunu) or يَرْسِنُ (yarsinu), verbal noun رَسْن (rasn))
* to tie with the leadingrope

#### Conjugation
### Noun

رَسْن • (rasn) m
* verbal noun of رَسَنَ (rasana) (form I)

#### Declension
### References

* Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 533
* Fraenkel, Siegmund (1880) De vocabulis in antiquis Arabum carminibus et in Corano peregrinis‎ (in Latin), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 9
* Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 100–101
* Freytag, Georg (1833) “رسن”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 150b
* Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “رسن”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C$^{ie}$, page 863
* Lagarde, Paul de (1866) Gesammelte Abhandlungen (in German), Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, pages 17 l. 18–20
* Lane, Edward William (1863) “رسن”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1086
* Wehr, Hans (1979) “رسن”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 393
* Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “رسن”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 471

## Mazanderani
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ræsən/

### Noun

رسن (rasen)
* rope

## Persian
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (lsn' /⁠rasan⁠/, “rope”), from Parthian [script needed] (rasan, “rope”), from Proto-Iranian *racanáH, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *raćanáH, from the root *rać-. Cognate with Sanskrit रशना (raśanā́) and Old Armenian առասան (aṙasan), an Iranian borrowing.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ɾa.ˈsan]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [rä.sǽn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [rä.sǽn]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [rä.sǽn]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [rä.sǽn]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [ɹæ.sǽn]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [ɾä.sǽn]

### Noun

رسن • (rasan)
* (archaic) rope, string, cord, thread
** 11th century, Bayhaqi, Tarikh-e Beyhaqi
    ... و جلادش استوار ببست و رسن‌ها فرود آورد، و آواز دادند که سنگ دهید، هیچکس دست به سنگ نمی‌کرد و همه زارزار می‌گریستند خاصه نیشابوریان، پس مُشتی رند را سیم دادند تا سنگ زنند و مَرد خود مُرده بود که جلادش رسن در گلو افگنده بود و خبه کرده.... va jallâd-aš ostovâr bebast o rasan-hâ forud âvard, va âvâz dadand ke sang dahid, hičkas dast be sang nemikard o hame zâr-zâr mi-geristand xâsse neyšâburiyân, pas mošti rend râ sim dâdand tâ sang zanand, va mard xod morde bud, ke jallâd-aš rasan dar galu afgande bud o xabe karde.... and the hangman tied him (Hasanak the Vizier) tightly and pulled down the ropes, and [they] shouted that "throw stones!", [but] nobody was picking up stones and all were crying loudly, especially the Nishapuris, so they paid silver [coins] to a bunch of thugs to throw stones, and [but] the man was already dead, as the hangman had put the rope on his neck and [had him] strangled.

#### Descendants

* → Urdu: رسن (rasan)

#### References

* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “رسن”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul

## Urdu
### Etymology

From Classical Persian رسن (rasan, “rope; string”).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /ɾə.sən/

### Noun

رسن • (rasan) f (Hindi spelling रसन)
* rope, cord
* string; thread

#### Derived terms

* رَسَن بَسْتَہ (rasan-basta, “tied with rope”)
* رَسَن ساز (rasan-sāz, “rope-maker”)
* رَسَن باز (rasan-bāz)
* رَسَن بازی (rasan-bāzī)
* رَسَن و دار (rasan-o-dār, “death by hanging”)
* رَسَنِ آفتاب (rasan-e-āftāb, “rays of the sun”)

### References

* “رسن”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “رسن”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
* “رسن”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.