رِسَالَةٌ
Root: رسل
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رِسَالَةٌ
and
رَسَالَةٌ and
رَسُولٌ and
رَسِيلٌ signify the same, A message; and a letter; [a communication sent from one person or party to another, oral or written;] substs. from أَرْسَلَ
إِلَيْهِ: the pl. of the first is رَسَائِلُ; 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: and أَرْسَلَ إِلَيْهِ: see 4. A poet says, namely El-Ash'ar El-Joafee,
2 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.
3 And Apostleship; the apostolic office or function.
4 أُمُّ رِسَالَةَ [in a copy of the K أُمُّ رِسَالَةٍ] The رَخَمَة [or female of the vultur percnopterus, in the CK رَحْمَة]: a surname thereof.
[Now deliver thou to Aboo-' Amr a message, saying that I am in no need of your judging]: or بَنِى عَمْرٍو [the sons of ' Amr]: he means, عَنْ حُكْمكُمْ. And hence the saying of Kutheiyir,أَلَا أَبْلغْ أَبَا عَمْرٍو بِأَنِّى عَنْ فُتَاحَتِكُمْ غَنِىُّ
[Assuredly the slanderers have lied: I revealed not in their presence a secret, nor did I send them with a message]: or, as some relate the second hemistich,لَقَدْ كَذَبَ الوَاشُونَ مَا بُحْتُ عِنْدَهُمْ بِسِرٍّ وَلَا أَرْسَلْتُهُمْ
[i. e. I revealed not the case of Leyla, nor did I send them with a message]: thus cited by Th.بِلَيْلَى وَلَا أَرْسَلْتُهُمْ
2 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.
3 And Apostleship; the apostolic office or function.
4 أُمُّ رِسَالَةَ [in a copy of the K أُمُّ رِسَالَةٍ] The رَخَمَة [or female of the vultur percnopterus, in the CK رَحْمَة]: a surname thereof.
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