مَطْرَبٌ
Root: طرب
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مَطْرَبٌ
and
مَطْرَبَةٌ
A separate, or straggling, road, or way: or a narrow road, or way: or the former, a conspicuous road or way: and the latter, a small road, or way, leading into a great one: or a narrow road, or way, apart from others: or a small road, or way, branching off from a main road: pl. مَطَارِبُ: [it is said that] there is no verb corresponding thereto. A poet says, namely, Aboo-Dhu-eyb,
i. e. Many a desert tract, like the division of the hair of the head in narrowness, narrow conspicuous [or straggling] roads, or ways, [whereof the portions over which the eye can reach are far-extending,] protract; some of these roads, or ways, tending this way and some that way. (TA. [مطارب is here with tenween for the sake of the measure. See also زَقَبٌ. Perhaps the poet means to liken the said roads to the ropes of a tent.]) It is said in a trad., لَعَنَ ٱللّٰهُ مَنْ غَيَّرَ [May God curse him who alters the مطربة]; i. e., the road thus called.وَمَتْلَفٍ مِثْلِ فَرْقِ الرَّأْسِ تَخْلِجُهُ مَطَارِبٌ زَقَبٌ أَمْيَالُهَا فِيحُ
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