طرب

مَطْرَبٌ ذ and ↓ مَطْرَبَةٌ A separate, or straggling, road, or way: (S, O:) or a narrow road, or way: (K:) or the former, a conspicuous road or way: (IAar, TA:) and the latter, a small road, or way, leading into a great one: or a narrow road, or way, apart from others: (TA:) or a small road, or way, branching off from a main road: (O:) pl. مَطَارِبُ: (S, O:) [it is said (but see 1, last sentence,) that] there is no verb corresponding thereto. (TA.) A poet says, (S,) namely, Aboo-Dhu-eyb, (O, TA,) وَمَتْلَفٍ مِثْلِ فَرْقِ الرَّأْسِ تَخْلِجُهُ مَطَارِبٌ زَقَبٌ أَمْيَالُهَا فِيحُ (S, O, TA) 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 ا@للّٰهُ مَنْ غَيَّرَ المَطْرَبَةَ [ May God curse him who alters the مطربة]; i. e., the road thus called. (TA.)