ريث
1 رَاثَ, (
T,
S,
M, &c.,)
aor. ـِ (
S,
Msb,)
inf. n. رَيْثٌ, (
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 ↓ تريّث. (
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 ↓ تريّث Such a one was slow, &c., in coming to us. (
T.) And رُبَّ عَجَلَةٍ وَ هَبَتْ رَيْثًا, or,
accord. to one relation of the saying, تَهَبُ رَيْثًا, 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 رَيْثًا [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 المُرِيثِ 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 المُرِيثِ المَرْءَ. (
M.) 2 رَيَّثَ see 4.
b2: [Hence,] يُرَيِّثُ النَّظَرَ, or,
accord. to one relation, يُرَيِّثُ 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, رَيَّثَ عَمَّا كَانَ عَلَيْهِ He fell short, or failed, of doing, or accomplishing, what was incumbent on him: and in like manner, رَيَّثَ أَمْرَهُ [He fell short, or failed, of accomplishing his affair]. (
M.)
b4: And تَرْيِيثٌ signifies The being fatigued, tired, weary, or jaded: (
K:) its verb, ريّث, is said of a man or of a horse. (
TK.)
A2: تَرْيِيثٌ is also
syn. with تَلْيِينٌ [The rendering a thing soft, &c.]. (
K.) 4 أَرْيَثَ see 1, last sentence.
A2: [It is generally transitive.] You say, مَا أَرَاثَكَ (
K) and ↓ ما رَيَّثَكَ (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 تَرَيَّثَ 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.) رَيْثٌ 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 رَيْثَمَا 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 رَيْثَمَا 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 رَيْثَ 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 رَيْثَ 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, يُرِيدُ يَفْعَلُ, i. e. أَنْ يَفْعَلَ. (
TA.) [See also an
ex. in a verse cited
voce رَاجِلَةٌ, and another in a verse cited
voce رِيحٌ.]
رَيْثَةٌ Slowness, tardiness, dilatoriness, lateness, or backwardness;
contr. of عَجَلَةٌ; like [the
inf. n. ] رَيْثٌ; (
Ham p. 503;)
i. q. إِبْطَآءٌ. (Idem p. 640.) رَائِثٌ: see what next follows.
رَيِّثٌ, 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.) مُرَيَّثُ 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.)