ريــث

1 رَاثَ, (T, S, M, &c.,) aor. ـِ (S, Msb,) inf. n. رَيْــثٌ, (S, M, A, Mgh, Msb, K,) He, or it, was, or became, slow, tardy, dilatory, late, or backward; (T, S, M, A, Mgh, Msb, K;) as also ↓ تــريّــث. (T, K.) You say, رَاثَ عَلَىَّ خَبَرُكَ, (S, A,) or راث عَلَيْنَا خَبَرُهُ, (T,) Thy news or the news of thee, or his news or the news of him, was slow, &c., in coming to me, or to us. (T, S, A.) and عَلَيْنَا فُلَانٌ ↓ تــريّــث Such a one was slow, &c., in coming to us. (T.) And رُبَّ عَجَلَةٍ وَ هَبَتْ رَيْــثًا, or, accord. to one relation of the saying, تَهَبُ رَيْــثًا, the meaning in both cases being the same, from الهِبَةُ; [i. e. Many an act of haste causes (lit. gives) slowness, &c.;] (S;) or تُعْقِبُ رَيْــثًا [occasions, as its result, slowness, &c.]: (A:) a proverb. (S, A.) And it appears from the following saying of Maakil Ibn-Khuweylid, لَعَمْرُكَ لَلْيَأْسُ غَيْرُ المُــرِيــثِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الطَّمَعِ الكَاذِبِ [By thy life, or by thy religion, assuredly despair that is not slow in its issue is better than hope that gives a false promise, if this be his meaning,] that ↓ اراث may be a dial. var. of رَاثَ: but the poet may mean [that does not make a man slow, i. e.] غَيْرُ المُــرِيــثِ المَرْءَ. (M.) 2 رَيَّــثَ see 4. b2: [Hence,] يُــرَيِّــثُ النَّظَرَ, or, accord. to one relation, يُــرَيِّــثُ إِلَىَّ النَّظَرَ, [meaning He is long in looking or he prolongs the looking, and he is long in looking &c. at me,] is mentioned as a phrase used by one of the companions of Ks. (M.) b3: One says also, رَيَّــثَ عَمَّا كَانَ عَلَيْهِ He fell short, or failed, of doing, or accomplishing, what was incumbent on him: and in like manner, رَيَّــثَ أَمْرَهُ [He fell short, or failed, of accomplishing his affair]. (M.) b4: And تَــرْيِــيثٌ signifies The being fatigued, tired, weary, or jaded: (K:) its verb, ريّــث, is said of a man or of a horse. (TK.) A2: تَــرْيِــيثٌ is also syn. with تَلْيِينٌ [The rendering a thing soft, &c.]. (K.) 4 أَــرْيَــثَ see 1, last sentence.

A2: [It is generally transitive.] You say, مَا أَرَاثَكَ (K) and ↓ ما رَيَّــثَكَ (A) What made thee, or hath made thee, slow, tardy, dilatory, late, or backward? retarded, or delayed, thee? or kept, or held, thee back? (A, K.) And مَا أَرَاثَكَ عَلَيْنَا What retarded, or delayed, thee, or what kept, or held, thee back, from us? or what hath retarded, &c.? (S.) 5 تَــرَيَّــثَ see 1, in two places.10 استراثهُ He deemed, or reckoned, him, or it, (namely, a person, A, TA, or information, news, or tidings, TA,) slow, tardy, dilatory, late, or backward. (S, * M, A, K, * TA.) You say, اِسْتَغَثْتُهُ فَمَا اسْتَرَثْتُهُ [I sought, or desired, aid, or succour, of him, and I did not deem him slow, &c.]. (A, TA.) رَيْــثٌ A space, or measure, [of time,] syn. قَدْرٌ, (T, Msb,) or مِقْدَارٌ; (A, K;) or a time, a while, syn. سَاعَةٌ. (Mgh.) You say, أَمْهَلْتُهُ رَيْــثَمَا فَعَلَ كَذَا, i. e. قَدْرَ مَا فَعَلَهُ (Msb) or سَاعَةَ فِعْلِهِ (Mgh) [I granted him a delay during the space of his doing such a thing]. And لَمْ يَلْبَثْ إِلَّا رَيْــثَمَا قُلْتُ, i. e. قَدْرَ ذٰلِكَ [He tarried not save during the space that, or as long as, or while, I said such a thing]. (TA, from a trad.) And so in the saying, مَا قَعَدَ عِنْدَنَا فُلَانٌ إِلَّا رَيْــثَ أَنْ حَدَّثَنَا بِحَدِيثٍ تُمَّ مَرَّ [Such a one sat not with us, or at our abode, save during the space that, or as long as, or while, he related to us a story, or tradition; then he went away]. (T, TA.) And it is used without ما and without ان: (TA:) Aashà Báhileh says, لَا يُصْعِبُ الأَمْرَ إِلَّا رَيْــثَ يَرْكَبُهُ وَ كُلَّ أَمْرٍ سِوَى الفَحْشَآءِ يَأْتَمِرُ [He finds not the affair difficult save while he is embarking in it; and every command but that which exceeds the bounds of rectitude he obeys]: (M, TA:) this mode of expression is common in the dial. of El-Hijáz; accord. to which one says, يُــرِيــدُ يَفْعَلُ, i. e. أَنْ يَفْعَلَ. (TA.) [See also an ex. in a verse cited voce رَاجِلَةٌ, and another in a verse cited voce رِيــحٌ.]

رَيْــثَةٌ Slowness, tardiness, dilatoriness, lateness, or backwardness; contr. of عَجَلَةٌ; like [the inf. n. ] رَيْــثٌ; (Ham p. 503;) i. q. إِبْطَآءٌ. (Idem p. 640.) رَائِثٌ: see what next follows.

رَيِّــثٌ, applied to a man, (IAar, S, M,) and, as some say, to anything, (M,) Slow, tardy, dilatory, late, or backward; (IAar, T, S, M, A, K;) as also ↓ رَائِثٌ; (A, TA;) the latter occurring in a trad. (TA.) مُــرَيَّــثُ العَيْنَيْنِ, (Fr, S, K,) or العَيْنِ, (A,) A man (Fr, S, A) slow of sight. (Fr, S, A, K.) مَا فُلَانٌ بِمُسْتَرَاثِ النُّصْرَةِ [Such a one is not a person whose aid is deemed slow, tardy, &c.]. (A, TA.)