رَاثَ
Root: ريث
Form: 1
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رَاثَI
, Present.T يَرِيثُ, Verbal.Noun رَيْثٌ, He, or it, was, or became, slow, tardy, dilatory, late, or backward; as also
تريّث . You say, رَاثَ عَلَىَّ خَبَرُكَ, or راث عَلَيْنَا خَبَرُهُ, 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. And تريّث عَلَيْنَا فُلَانٌ
Such a one was slow, &c., in coming to us. 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 slowness, &c.;] or تُعْقِبُ رَيْثًا [occasions, as its result, slowness, &c.]: a proverb. And it appears from the following saying of Maakil Ibn-Khuweylid,
[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 may be a dial. var. of رَاثَ: but the poet may mean [that does not make a man slow, i. e.] غَيْرُ المُرِيثِ المَرْءَ.لَعَمْرُكَ لَلْيَأْسُ غَيْرُ المُرِيثِ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الطَّمَعِ الكَاذِبِ
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