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آدَمُ

Root: ادم

Full Definition

آدَمُ Of the colour termed أُدْمَةٌ: pl. أُدْمٌ and ; the latter like حُمْرَانٌ as a pl. of أَحْمَرُ: the fem. sing. is أَدْمَآءُ and ; the latter anomalous; occurring in poetry, but disapproved by As; said by Aboo-'Alee to be like خُمْصَانَةٌ; and the fem. pl. is أُدْمٌ: applied to a camel, of a colour intermixed, or tinged, with blackness, or with whiteness; or of a clear white; or, as some say, intensely white; or white, and black in the eyeballs; or white; and so applied to a gazelle: or, applied to a gazelle, of a colour intermixed, or tinged, with whiteness; Lth, however, says that أَدْمَآءُ is applied to a female gazelle, but he had not heard آدَمُ applied to the male gazelle; and As says, أُدْمٌ applied to gazelles signifies white, having upon them streaks in which is a dust-colour, inhabiting the mountains, and of the colour of the mountains; if of a pure white colour, they are termed آرَامٌ: or, accord. to ISk, white in the bellies, tawny in the backs, and having the colour of the bellies and of the backs divided by two streaks of the colour of musk; and in like manner explained by IAar: applied to a human being, آدَمُ signifies tawny; or dark-complexioned; syn. أَسْمَرُ; or, thus applied, it signifies أحْمَرُ اللَّوْنِ [which, in this case, means white of complexion]; and the pl. is أُدْمِانٌ. The Arabs say, قُرَيْشُ الإِبِلِ أُدْمُهَا وَصُهْبُهَا, meaning The best of camels are those of them which are أُدْم and those of them which are صُهْب; [see أَصْهَبُ;] like as Kureysh are the best of men.
2 Also [Adam,] the father of mankind; and likewise ; but this is extr.: there are various opinions respecting its derivation; but [these it is unnecessary to mention, for] the truth is that it is a foreign word, [i. e. Hebrew,] of the measure فَاعَلُ, like آزَرُ: and [therefore] its pl. is أَوَادِمُ.


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