مِثْقَبٌ

An instrument with which one perforates, bores, or pierces; a drill, or the like: (S, A, Msb, K:) plural مَثَاقِبُ. (A.)

And hence, (tropical:) A road passing through a mountain; as though perforating it: (A, TA:) or a road passing through a stony and rugged tract: (L, TA:) and, with the article ال, particularly applied to the road of El- 'Irák, (A, K,) from El-Koofeh (K) to Mekkeh: (A, K:) or a road between El-Yemámeh and ElKoofeh: (L, TA:) and a road between Syria and El-Koofeh: (K:) or, according to El-Bekree and the Marásid, a road called after a man named مثقب. (MF, TA.) Hence the saying, هُوَ طَلَّاعُ المَثَاقِبِ, (tropical:) i. q. طَلَّاعُ الثَّنَايَا [q. v. voce ثَنِيَّةٌ]. (A, TA.)

See also ثَاقِبٌ.