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أَدَمَةٌ ذ : see أُدْمَةٌ. ― -b2- هُوَ أَدَمَةُ أَهْلِهِ, (M, K,) and ↓ أُدْمَتُهُمْ , (M,) or ↓ أَدْمَتُهُمْ , (K,) and ↓ أُدْمُهُمْ , (M,) or ↓ أَدْمُهُمْ , and ↓ إِِدَامُهُمْ , (K,) (tropical:) He is the pattern, exemplar, example, or object of imitation, of his people, or family, by means of whom they are known: (M, K:) so says IAar. (M.) And جَعَلْتُ فُلَانًا أَدَمَةَ أَهْلِى (tropical:) I made such a one to be the pattern, exemplar, example, or object of imitation, of my people, or family. (T, S.) And هُوَ أَدَمَةٌ لِفُلَانٍ, and ↓ أُدْمَةٌ , (tropical:) He is a pattern, &c., to such a one. (Fr, TA.) And فُلَانٌ أَدَمَةُ بَنِى فُلَانٍ (tropical:) Such a one is he who makes people to know the sons of such a one. (T.) And هُوَ أَدَمَةُ قَوْمِهِ (tropical:) He is the chief, and provost, of his people. (A, TA.) And قَوْمِهِ ↓ فُلَانٌ إِِدَامُ , and بَنى أَبِيهِ ↓ أُدْمُ , (tropical:) Such a one is the aider, and manager of the affairs, and the support, and right orderer of the affairs, of his people, and of the sons of his father. (A, TA.) -A2- [The inner skin; the cutis, or derma;] the interior of the skin, which is next to the flesh; (S, M, K;) the exterior thereof being called the بَشَرَة: (S:) or (as some say, M) the exterior thereof, upon which is the hair; the interior thereof being called the بَشَرَة: (M, K:) and ↓ أَدَمٌ may be its pl.; [or rather, a coll. gen. n.;] or, accord. to Sb, it is a quasi-pl. n. (M.) ― -b2- Accord. to some, (M,) What appears of the skin of the head. (M, K. [See بَشَرَةٌ.]) ― -b3- And (assumed tropical:) The interior of the earth or ground; (M, K;) the surface thereof being called its أَدِيم: (M, TA:) or, as some say, its surface. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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