مرسل

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مُرْسَل (mursal).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [muɾ.ˈsal]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mʊɾ.sǽl]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mʊɾ.sǽl]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mʊɾ.sǽl]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [muɾ.sǽl̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [moɹ.sǽl̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [muɾ.sǽl]

Readings
Classical reading?	mursal
Dari reading?	mursal
Iranian reading?	morsal
Tajik reading?	mursal

Adjective

مرسل • (morsal)

1. dispatched, sent; (Islam) especially of prophets

   پیغمبر مرسل ― peyğambar-e morsal ― prophet sent [by God]

   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 74:

     بحق آنکه چنین صورت آفرید ز نور
     بحق احمد مرسل بخواجه قنبر

     ba-haqq-i ān-ki čunīn sūrat āfarīd zi nūr
     ba-haqq-i ahmad-i mursal ba-xwāja-yi qanbar

     [I swear] by the truth that He created such a visage from light,
     By the truth of Muhammad, sent [by God], and by [Ali,] the master of Qanbar.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “مرسل”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim