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إِدَامٌ

Root: ادم

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إِدَامٌ and أُدْمٌ [Seasoning, or condiment, for bread; and any savoury food;] what is used for seasoniny (مَا يُؤْتَدَمُ بِهِ, T, S, M, * Mgh, Msb, K) with bread; that which renders bread pleasant and good and savoury; whether fluid or not fluid; صِبْغٌ and صِبَاغٌ being peculiarly applied to that which is fluid: or أُدْمٌ is anything that is eaten with bread: the pl. [of mult.] of إِدَامٌ is أُدُمٌ, and, by contraction, أُدْمٌ, which is also used as the sing., and [pl. of pauc.] آدِمَةٌ and آدَامٌ; or this last is pl. of أُدْمٌ. It is said in a trad., نِعْمَ الإِدَامُ الخَلُّ [Excellent, or most excel-lent, is the seasoning, vinegar!]. And in another, سَيِّدُ آدَامِ الدُّنْيَا وَالآخِرَةِ اللَّحْمُ [The prince of the seasonings of the present world and of the world to come is flesh-meat].
2 هُوَ إِدَامُ أَهْلِهِ, and إِدَامُ قَوْمِهِ: see أَدَمَةٌ.
3 Anything conforming, or conformable; agreeing, or agreeable; suiting, or suitable. [Used also as a pl.: thus,] 'Ádiyeh Ed-Dubeyreeyeh says, كَانُوا لِمَنْ خَالَطَهُمْ إِدَامَا [They were, to those who mixed with them in social intercourse, conformable, or agreeable.]


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