# رسول

| ﷶ | U+FDF6, &#65014; ARABIC LIGATURE RASOUL ISOLATED FORM |
| ← ﷵ [U+FDF5] | Arabic Presentation Forms-A | ﷷ → [U+FDF7] |

## Arabic
### Etymology

Compare أَرْسَلَ (ʔarsala, “to send”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ra.suːl/

### Noun

رَسُول • (rasūl) m (plural رُسُل (rusul))
* messenger; emissary; envoy; delegate
    Synonyms: مُرْسَل (mursal), قَيْنَاب (qaynāb), قَانِب (qānib), فَيْج (fayj), فُرَانِق (furāniq)
* (religion) messenger, apostle
** (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)
** (Christianity) an apostle (leading disciple of Jesus)
    بُولُسُ الرَسُول ― būlusu r-rasūl ― Paul the Apostle
    أَعْمَالُ الرُّسُل ― ʔaʕmālu r-rusul ― Acts of the Apostles
* 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 حَكِيمٌwamā 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)

#### Derived terms

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

#### Descendants

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

#### See also

* نَبِيّ (nabiyy)

### Proper noun

اَلرَّسُول • (ar-rasūl) m
* (Islam) Muhammad (the Messenger)
** Qur'an 4:170
    يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ قَدْ جَاءَكُمُ الرَّسُولُ بِالْحَقِّ مِن رَّبِّكُمْ فَآمِنُوا خَيْرًا لَّكُمْyā 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
* 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))
* messenger, emissary, envoy, a person appointed to bring messages
    Synonyms: ایلچی (elçi), خبرجی (haberci)
* (Islam) prophet, messenger, someone who speaks by divine inspiration
    Synonyms: پیغامبر (peygamber), نبی (nebi), یالاواج (yalavac)
* (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

* Turkish: resul

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “resul”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3960b
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “resûl”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1064
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “رسول”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, 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, 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, Vienna, column 2315
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “resul”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “رسول”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 974b

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic رَسُول (rasūl).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ɾa.ˈsuːl]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [rä.súːl]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [rä.súːl]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [rä.súːl]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [rä.súl̥]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [ɹæ.súːl̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [ɾä.súl]

### Noun

رسول • (rasul) (plural رسل (rosol) or رسولان (rasulân))
* messenger

## Urdu
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /ɾə.suːl/
* Audio (Pakistan):(file)
* Rhymes: -uːl

### Noun

رَسُول • (rasūl) m (formal plural رُسُل (rusul), Hindi spelling रसूल)
* (Islam) Messenger, prophet
    Synonyms: پَیغَمْبَر (paiġambar), نَبی (nabī)
    رسول اللہ ﷺ ― rasūl ullāh (SAW) ― Prophet of God (PBUH)
* (by extension) Prophet Muhammad
* (Christianity) Apostle
    یوحنا رسول ― yūhannā rasūl ― John the Apostle

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ “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 [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]