جِذْمٌ
Root: جذم
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جِذْمٌ
The root, source, origin, or original, or the fundamental or essential or principal part, syn. أَصْل, of a thing, whatever that thing be; as also
جَذْمٌ : pl. [of pauc.] أَجْذَامٌ and [of mult.] جُذُومٌ.
2 The family of a people; their kinsfolk: whence the saying, in a trad., لَمْ يَكْنْ رَجُلٌ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ إِلَّا لَهُ جِذْمٌ بِمَكَّةَ [There was not a man of Kureysh but he had kinsfolk in Mekkeh]. [And app. The main stock from which tribes are derived: for,] accord. to some, it ranks before شَعْبٌ. (TA voce بَطْنٌ.)
3 The places [or place] of growth of the teeth. A poet says, namely, El-Hárith Ibn-Waaleh,
4 The lower, or lowest, part, or the foundation, of a wall: or the remains thereof: or a portion thereof.
5 See also جِذْمَةٌ.
2 The family of a people; their kinsfolk: whence the saying, in a trad., لَمْ يَكْنْ رَجُلٌ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ إِلَّا لَهُ جِذْمٌ بِمَكَّةَ [There was not a man of Kureysh but he had kinsfolk in Mekkeh]. [And app. The main stock from which tribes are derived: for,] accord. to some, it ranks before شَعْبٌ. (TA voce بَطْنٌ.)
3 The places [or place] of growth of the teeth. A poet says, namely, El-Hárith Ibn-Waaleh,
[Now, when the hair in the middle of my bosom, extending downwards to my navel, has become white, and I have bitten upon the place of growth of my canine tooth]: i. e., I have become old, and eaten upon the جذم of my ناب.اَلْآنَ لَمَّا ٱبْيَضَّ مَسْرُبَتِى وَعَضِضْتُ مِنْ نَابِى عَلَى جِذْمِ
4 The lower, or lowest, part, or the foundation, of a wall: or the remains thereof: or a portion thereof.
5 See also جِذْمَةٌ.
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