"لَيْسَ عِنْدي قَلَم رَصاص."

Translation: I do not have a pencil.

[toiyiot]

What is "rasas"? It shows an empty box if I click on the word.

[Salsmachev]

Lead. Qalam can actually refer to a pen or pencil, but here they're specifying a pencil with qalam raṣāṣ (literally a writing implement of lead).

[KatieCos]

Thank you, Salamachev. So it is an iDaafa? But qalam is not any implement, is it? It is a writing implement?

[KatieCos]

If you put raSaaS in Google Translate, it gives you lead.

[put_in_prison]

rasas means lead

[msaligs]

Well i don't have a pencil.

Showing wrong, that's the drawback of learning with digital content

[salehalatas]

How about مرسم?

[tsuj1g1r1]

Native speaker here. Never heard of this word in my life. I would have assumed it to mean "draughtsman's studio/workspace" or something were I to encounter it in writing. What's wrong with قلم رصاص, why do you hate it? Because it's longer than the English counterpart? You'd normally just say قلم, and not specify رصاص, unless you needed to. "Can you lend me a writing implement please?" "Lead or dry?" "Lead please." is how this interaction usually goes in my experience.

[malikhemedi]

If rassas is a writing implement with lead why is rassas never shown as a new word?