رسن

رسن (rasën)

1. rope

From Middle Persian [script needed] (lsn' /rasan/, “rope”), from Proto-Iranian *raĉanáH, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *raĉanáH, from the root *raĉ-. Cognate with Sanskrit रशना (raśanā́) and Old Armenian առասան (aṙasan), an Iranian borrowing.

رسن • (rasan)

1. (archaic) rope, string, cord, thread
   • 11th century, Bayhaqi, Tarikh-e Beyhaqi

     ‏... و جلادش استوار ببست و رسن‌ها فرود آورد، و آواز دادند که سنگ دهید، هیچکس دست به سنگ نمی‌کرد و همه زارزار می‌گریستند خاصه نیشابوریان، پس مُشتی رند را سیم دادند تا سنگ زنند و مَرد خود مُرده بود که جلادش رسن در گلو افگنده بود و خبه کرده.‎‎

     ... va jallâd-aš ostovâr bebast o rasan-hâ forud âvard, va âvâz dadand ke sang dahid, hičkas dast be sang nemikard o hame zâr-zâr mi-geristand xâsse Neyšâburiyân, pas mošti rend râ sim dâdand tâ sang zanand, va mard xod morde bud, ke jallâd-aš rasan dar galu afgande bud o xabe karde.

     ... and the hangman tied him (Hasanak the Vizier) tightly and pulled down the ropes, and [they] shouted that "throw stones!", [but] nobody was picking up stones and all were crying loudly, especially the Nishapuris, so they paid silver [coins] to a bunch of thugs to throw stones, and [but] the man was already dead, as the hangman had put the rope on his neck and [had him] strangled.

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “رسن”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul