ارخاهُ
1.
He made it, or rendered it, soft, yielding, flaccid, flabby, lax, slack, uncompact, crummy, fragile, frangible, brittle, friable, easily or quickly broken; i. q.
جَعَلَهُ رِخْوًا; as also ↓راخاهُ. (K.) You say, ارخى الرِّبَاطَ [He relaxed, or slackened, the tie, or bond]; (M, TA;) and ↓راخاهُ, verbal noun مُرَاخَاةٌ. (JK, TA.) And لَهُ مِنْ خِنَاقِهِ
رَاخِ [lit, Relax thou, or slacken thou, his cord with which he is being strangled]; meaning (assumed tropical:) make thou his circumstances ample and easy to him; ease him; relieve him; or grant him a delay. (TA. [See a similar phrase in article ربو, conj. 2.]) And أَرْخِ لَهُ
قَيْدَهُ
Make thou his shackle, or shackles, wide, or ample, not strait, to him. (TA.) And أَرْخِ لَهُ
الحَبْلَ [lit. Relax thou, or slacken thou, to him the rope]; meaning (tropical:) give thou to him ample scope for using his own judgment, or discretion, in the disposal, or management, of his affairs, so that he may go whither he pleases. (TA.) And ارخى الفَرَسَ and لِلْفَرَسِ
He lengthened the horse's rope. (K.) And ارخى لَهُ الطِّوَلَ [lit. He relaxed, or slackened, his tether]; meaning (tropical:) he left him to his own affair. (A, TA.) And ارخى
عِمَامَتَهُ [lit. He slackened, or loosened, his turban]; meaning (assumed tropical:) he became, or felt, in a state of security or safety, tranquil, or at ease; (K, TA;) because the turbans are not slackened, or loosened, (لَا تُرْخَى,) in difficulty, or hardship. (TA.) And ارخى السِّتْرِ (S, Msb, K) وَغَيْرَهُ (S) He let loose, let down, or lowered, the veil, or curtain, &c. (S, K.) And ارخى ثِيَابَهُ عَلَى رِجْلَيْهِ [He let, or made, his clothes hang down loosely upon his legs] in riding and in sitting [&c.]. (TA in article رسل.) [And ارخى دُمُوعًا (assumed tropical:) He shed tears.] And ارخاهُ
خَطْبُهُ (tropical:) His state, or condition, made him to enjoy an easy, ample, or unstraitened, life, or a life of ease and plenty. (T, TA.)
2.
ارخت, said of a she-camel, [apparently for ارخت صَلَاهَا, i. e. She relaxed the part on either side of her tail, virtually] means صَلَاهَا ↓اِسْتَرْخَى, (S, K, TA,) i. e. [the part on either side of her tail became relaxed; or] her
صَلَوَانِ [or parts on the right and left of her tail] gaped, [or receded from each other,] on the occasion of bringing forth. (T, TA.)
3.
إِرْخَاءٌ also signifies A sort of running: (S:) or vehement running: (K:) or running exceeding what is termed
تَقْرِيبٌ: (JK, K: [see 2 in article قرب:]) or running (حُضْرٌ) that is not ardent, or not impetuous: (A, TA:) or gentleness in running: (Ham p. 158:) according to Az, الإِرْخَاءُ الأَعْلَى means The most vehement [running termed] حُصْر; and الإِرْخَاءُ الأَدْنَى is less than that: and ارخى فِى
عَدْوِهِ, said of a horse, signifies أَحْضَرَ [apparently as meaning He rose in his running]; and is from رُخَاءٌ as an epithet applied to wind. (TA.)
4.
You say also, ارخى دَابَّتَهُ, meaning He made his beast to go the pace, or in the manner, termed
إِرْخَاء, explained above: (Lth, K:) [or,] according to A 'Obeyd, الإِرْخَاءُ signifies the leaving a horse to follow his own eager desire in running, without fatiguing him. (S.)