ر س و

Compare ر س خ (r-s-ḵ), Ge'ez ረ ሰ የ (r-s-y), ረ ሰ ወ (r-s-w).

ر س و • (r-s-w)

1. related to becoming fixed in the ground

• Form I: رَسَا (rasā, “to become firmly based, to become fixed, to anchor”)
  • Verbal noun: رُسُوّ (rusuww)
  • Active participle: رَاسٍ (rāsin)
  • Passive participle: مَرْسُوّ (marsuww)
• Form II: رَسَّى (rassā, “to accept the tender of”)
  • Verbal noun: تَرْسِيَة (tarsiya)
  • Active participle: مُرَسٍّ (murassin)
  • Passive participle: مُرَسًّى (murassan)
• Form IV: أَرْسَى (ʔarsā, “to make stationary, to fix, to make anchor”)
  • Verbal noun: إِرْسَاء (ʔirsāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُرْسٍ (mursin)
  • Passive participle: مُرْسًى (mursan)

• مَرْسًى (marsan, “place of anchoring, anchorage”)
• مِرْسَاة (mirsāh, “anchor”)

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ر س و”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 529
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “ر س و”, 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, pages 150–151
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ر س و”, 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, pages 863–864
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ر س و”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1086–1087
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ر س و”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 393–394
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ر س و”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 472