رَيْثٌ
Root: ريث
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رَيْثٌ
A space, or measure, [of time,] syn. قَدْرٌ, or مِقْدَارٌ; or a time, a while, syn. سَاعَةٌ. You say, أَمْهَلْتُهُ رَيْثَمَا فَعَلَ كَذَا, i. e. قَدْرَ مَا فَعَلَهُ or سَاعَةَ فِعْلِهِ [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]. 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]. And it is used without ما and without ان: Aashà Báhileh says,
[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]: this mode of expression is common in the dial. of El-Hijáz; accord. to which one says, يُرِيدُ يَفْعَلُ, i. e. أَنْ يَفْعَلَ. [See also an ex. in a verse cited voce رَاجِلَةٌ, and another in a verse cited voce رِيحٌ.]لَا يُصْعِبُ الأَمْرَ إِلَّا رَيْثَ يَرْكَبُهُ وَ كُلَّ أَمْرٍ سِوَى الفَحْشَآءِ يَأْتَمِرُ
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