أَدْلَمُ
1.
, applied to a man (S, M, K) and an ass (S) and a lion (M, K) and a horse (TA) and a mountain (M, K) and a rock, (M,) Black: (S: [see also دَلَامٌ:]) or intensely black, and smooth: (M, K:) or, as some say, (so in the M, but according to the K “ and, ”) i. q.
ادَمُ [q. v.]: (M, K:) 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, according to IAar, i. q.
أَدْغَمُ [q. v.]: (T:) plural دُلْمٌ, (S, TA,) which is also applied to mules as meaning black. (TA.)
2.
Also A black serpent. (T.)
3.
And i. q.
أَرَنْدَجٌ [Black leather, or a black skin or hide]. (Sh, T, K.) So, according 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]. (T.)وَلَقَدْ هَمَمْتُ بِغَارَةٍ فِى لَيْلَةٍسَوْدَاءَ حَالِكَةٍ كَلَوْنِ الأَدْلَمِ
4.
[Hence,] by way of comparison, one says لَيْلٌ أَدْلَمُ [meaning (assumed tropical:) Black, or intensely dark, night]. (TA.)