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أَدَمَ

Root: ادم

Form: 1

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أَدَمَI , Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun أَدْمٌ; and , Verbal.Noun إِيدَامٌ; He mixed the bread with أُدْم [or seasoning; i. e. he seasoned it]; he made the swallowing of the bread to be good, or agreeable, by means of إِدَام [or seasoning]. You say also, أَدَمَ الخُبْزَ بِاللَّحْمِ, Present.T ـِ [he seasoned the bread, or rendered it savoury, with flesh-meat,] from أُدْمٌ and إِدَامٌ, signifying مَا يُؤْتَدمُ بِهِ.
2 أَدَمَ القَوْمَ, Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun أَدْمٌ; or آدَمَهُمْ ; or both; He seasoned for the people, or company of men, (أَدَمَ لَهُمْ, [in the CK, erroneously, اَدامَ لهم,]) their bread; i. e., mixed it [for them] with إِدَام
3 [From أَدَمَ in the first of the senses explained above, is app. derived the phrase,] أَدَمَهُ بِأَهْلِهِ He mixed him, associated him, or united him in company, with his family. [And in like manner,] أَدَمَ بَيْنَهُمَا, or بَيْنَهُمْ, Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun أَدْمٌ; and , Verbal.Noun إِيَدامٌ; He effected a reconciliation between them; brought them together; (S, M, Msb, K; [expl. in the M and K by لَاءَ مَ, for which we find in the CK لَاُمَ;]) made them sociable, or familiar, one with another; and made them to agree: or induced love and agreement between them: held by A "Obeyd to be from أُدْمٌ, because thereby food is made good and pleasant. It is said in a trad., فَإِنَّهُ أَحْرَى أَنْ يُؤْدَمَ بَيْنَكُمَا, meaning For it is most fit, or meet, that there should be, between you two, love and agreement: or, that peace, or reconciliation, and friendship, should continue between you two. And a poet says, وَالبِيضُ لَا إِلَّا i. e. [And the pure, or free from faults, among women,] do not love any save one who is made an object of love [by his good qualities], a proper object of love.

def.2 أَدَمَهُمْ, Present.T ـِ or ـُ Verbal.Noun أَدْمٌ, He was, or became, to them, what is termed أَدَمَة; i. e., one who made people to know them; or a pattern, an exemplar, an example, or one who was imitated, or to be imitated; and one by means of whom they were known: so says IAar.

def.3 أَدَمَ الأَدِيمَ He pared, or removed the superficial part of, the hide: and آدَمَ الأَدِيمَ, with medd, he pared off the أَدَمَة [q. v.] of the hide: or the latter signifies he exposed to view the أَدَمَة [in the CK, erroneously, the اُدْمَة] of the hide.

def.4 أَدِمَ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun أَدَمٌ; and أَدُمَ, Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun أُدُومَةٌ [or, more probably, أُدْمَةٌ, like سُمْرَةٌ &c.]; He was, or became, of the colour termed أُدْمَة, q. v. infrà.


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