رسغ

Arabic

Root
ر س غ (r-s-ḡ)

Etymology

A voiced form of رَسَخَ (rasaḵa, to be fixed, to sink in) from the root ر س خ (r-s-ḵ) or similar, with the rest of the formations within the root ر س غ (r-s-ḡ) being secondary to the present anatomical term.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rusɣ/

Noun

رُسْغ • (rusḡ) m (plural أَرْسَاغ (ʔarsāḡ))

  1. (anatomy) carpus (amongst humans: wrist, amongst horses: knee or fetlock or whole pastern)

Declension

Derived terms

  • رَسَّغَ (rassaḡa)
  • أَرْسَغَ (ʔarsaḡa, same as form II)
  • رَاسَغَ (rāsaḡa, to take hold of the ankle, to wrestle with)
  • اِرْتَسَغَ (irtasaḡa, to expand amply upon one’s household)
  • رَسَغ (rasaḡ, a laxness in the legs of camels)
  • رَسِيغ (rasīḡ, ample, abundant)
  • رِسَاغ (risāḡ, a rope tied around the pastern)
  • مِرْسَغَة (mirsaḡa, a kind of bracelets worn by women around their arms)

Descendants

  • Medieval Latin: rasceta, rasca, rascha, rasga

Verb

رَسَّغَ • (rassaḡa) II, non-past يُرَسِّغُ‎ (yurassiḡu) (obsolete)

  1. (said of rain) to rain amply such that the water reaches the wrists of one digs for it
  2. (figurative) to make easy-going, to coordinate well, to make pass comfortly

Conjugation

References

  • Baalbaki, Rohi (1995) “رسغ”, in Al-Mawrid: A Modern Arabic-English Dictionary, 7th edition, Beirut: Dar El-Ilm Lilmalayin, →ISBN
  • Баранов, Х. К. (2011) “رسغ”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “رسغ”, 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 Cie, pages 589a–b
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “رسغ”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1080c–1081a
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “رسغ”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 414a
  • Wehr, Hans (1960) “رسغ”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz
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