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rashīd (v.n. fr. رشد 'to take or follow the right way'), part. adj. & s.m. Taking or following a right way or course, guided or directed aright, holding a right belief, orthodox, pious, dutiful, filial;—guiding or directing (one) in the right way;—a follower of a right way, one guided or directed aright; the Director to the right way, an epithet of the Deity:—Hārūna`r-rashīd, 'Hārūn the Orthodox,' a celebrated Caliph (ḵẖalīfa) of Bagdād (known to the readers of the 'Arabian Nights' asHarounal-raschid).
Origin: Arabic