Quranic root
رسس
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The root centers on becoming fixed, settled, or firmly established, with related developments involving a trace that remains perceptible.
From firmness and settling, the evidence extends to something taking hold in the heart or body, an initial trace or onset, speech lodging in the mind, burial that leaves only a trace, and certain named places. These root-level developments should not be treated as meanings of every derived form.
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Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
الرَّسّ
ālrrass
- Part of speech
- Proper noun · place name
- Quran occurrences
- 2 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
Al-Rass, a named place reported in the supplied lexical evidence as a valley, in the expression “the Companions of al-Rass.”
Proper-name use in the Quranic expression أَصْحَابُ الرَّسِّ. The identification specifically as a valley is reported rather than presented as certain.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 25:38word 4
“(of) Ar-rass”
Quran 50:12word 6
“(of) Ar-Raas”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 2 occurrencesBroader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 7 Classical meanings
رَسَّ / رَسِيسٌ
To become fixed, firmly settled, or established; رَسِيسٌ denotes something fixed or settled.
The verb may describe love taking hold in the heart, disease settling in the body, or speech lodging in the mind.
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رَسٌّ / رَسِيسٌ
The beginning, first stage, or initial touch of something, especially the onset of fever or the original feeling of love.
For fever, the word refers to its first touch before it becomes severe or fully apparent.
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رَسٌّ
A slight trace, remnant, or fragment of something, including a trace of love or an initial fragment of news.
The expression رَسٌّ مِنْ خَبَرٍ can denote a small or initial piece of news.
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رَسٌّ
An untrue or unreliable report or piece of news.
This is a separately reported use of رَسٌّ مِنْ خَبَرٍ and does not apply automatically to every occurrence of رَسٌّ with news.
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رُسَّ
To be buried, of a dead person, so that only a trace remains after his former presence.
Used in the passive expression for the dead person being buried.
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رَسْرَسَ
Of a camel, to move or press its knee against the ground while intending to rise.
A specialized Classical Arabic usage describing the camel’s movement while rising.
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رَسٌّ
To establish affection or enmity between people.
Reported as a contranym: it may refer either to reconciliation or to causing discord; both applications are understood as establishing a relation between people.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic designation is a place-name; the supplied evidence reports its identification as a valley but does not establish that identification as certain.