ثقّب

[Hence,] (tropical:) He (a bird) soared high, piercing the region of the air next to the clouds: (A, TA:) or reached, or ascended to, the midst of the sky. (TA.)

ثقّبهُ الشَّيْبُ, (JK, A, K,) verbal noun تَثْقِيبٌ; (JK, K;) and ثقّب فِيهِ; (IAar, K;) (tropical:) Hoariness appeared upon him: (K:) or began to appear upon him: (A, TA:) or became intermixed in his hair; or appeared and spread upon him; or his blackness and whiteness of hair became equal. (A, TA.) And ثقّب الشَّيْبُ بِاللِّحْيَةِ (tropical:) Hoariness commenced in the sides of the beard. (A.)

ثقّب عُودُ العَرْفَجِ (tropical:) The stalk of the عرفج [q. v.], the plant being rained upon, became soft: (S:) or the sap ran in it, and it put forth leaves. (JK, A.) When it has become blackish, one says of it, قَبِلَ: when it has increased a little, أَدْبَى; in which state it is fit to be eaten: and when its خُوص are perfect, أَخْوَصَ. (S.)

ثقّب, (A, K,) verbal noun تَثْقِيبٌ, (S, K,) also signifies (tropical:) He made a lamp, and a fire, to burn, shine, glisten, or gleam, very brightly, as though piercing through the darkness, and dispelling it; and so اثقب; (A, TA;) and the latter, he kindled a fire (TA) with tinder, (A, TA,) or camel's dung, or the like: (A:) or both signify he made a fire to burn brightly; to burn, blaze, or flame, up; (S, K;) and so تثقّب: (K:) or, according to AZ, النَّارَ اثقب, verbal noun إِثْقَابٌ, signifies he scraped a hole for the fire, in the ground, then put upon it, [i. e. the fire] dung, such as is called بَعْر, and small pieces of fire-wood or similar fuel, and then buried it in the dust; and so النَّارَ تثقّب, and بِهَا تثقّب; as also مسّك بِالنَّارِ, verbal noun تَمْسِبكٌ: and النَّارَ تثقّب signifies also he struck fire: and اثقب, verbal noun as above, he made a spark to fall from a زَنْد, q. v. (TA.)