أَدَمَةٌ
1.
See أُدْمَةٌ.
2.
هُوَ أَدَمَةُ أَهْلِهِ, (M, K,) and
أُدْمَتُهُمْ, (M,) or
أَدْمَتُهُمْ, (K,) and
أُدْمُهُمْ, (M,) or
أَدْمُهُمْ, and
إِدَامُهُمْ, (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 إِدَامُ, 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.)
3.
[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 plural; [or rather, a coll. gen. n.;] or, according to Sb, it is a quasi-plural n. (M.)
4.
Accord. to some, (M,) What appears of the skin of the head. (M, K. [See بَشَرَةٌ.])