أَدْلَمُ
Root: دلم
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أَدْلَمُ
, applied to a man and an ass and a lion and a horse and a mountain and a rock, Black: (S: [see also دَلَامٌ:]) or intensely black, and smooth: or, as some say, i. q.
آدَمُ [q. v.]: or, applied to a man, tall and black; and in like manner applied to a mountain, but as meaning, with smoothness, and not intensely black, in its rock: or, accord. to IAar, i. q.
أَدْغَمُ [q. v.]: pl. دُلْمٌ, which is also applied to mules as meaning black.
2 Also A black serpent.
3 And i. q. أَرَنْدَجٌ [Black leather, or a black skin or hide]. So, accord. to Sh, in the saying of 'Antarah,
4 [Hence,] by way of comparison, one says لَيْلٌ أَدْلَمُ [meaning
5 الدَّلْمَآءُ [fem. of الأَدْلَمُ]
2 Also A black serpent.
3 And i. q. أَرَنْدَجٌ [Black leather, or a black skin or hide]. So, accord. to Sh, in the saying of 'Antarah,
[And verily I purposed a hostile incursion in a night intensely black, like the colour of black leather].وَلَقَدْ هَمَمْتُ بِغَارَةٍ فِى لَيْلَةٍ سَوْدَآءَ حَالِكَةٍ كَلَوْنِ الأَدْلَمِ
4 [Hence,] by way of comparison, one says لَيْلٌ أَدْلَمُ [meaning
5 الدَّلْمَآءُ [fem. of الأَدْلَمُ]
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