جِذْمٌ

The root, source, origin, or original, or the fundamental or essential or principal part, synonym أَصْل, (S, Msb, K,) of a thing, (S, Msb, TA,) whatever that thing be; (TA;) as also ↓ جَذْمٌ: (S, K:) plural [of pauc.] أَجْذَامٌ and [of mult.] جُذُومٌ. (K.)

The family of a people; their kinsfolk: whence the saying, in a tradition, لَمْ يَكْنْ رَجُلٌ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ إِلَّا لَهُ جِذْمٌ بِمَكَّةَ [There was not a man of Kureysh but he had kinsfolk in Mekkeh]. (TA.) [And apparently The main stock from which tribes are derived: for,] according to some, it ranks before شَعْبٌ. (TA voce بَطْنٌ.)

The places [or place] of growth of the teeth. (TA.) A poet says, (S,) namely, El-Hárith Ibn-Waaleh, (TA,)

اَلْانَ لَمَّا ابْيَضَّ مَسْرُبَتِى

وَعَضِضْتُ مِنْ نَابِى عَلَى جِذْمِ

(S, TA,) [Now, when the hair in the middle of my bosom, extending downwards to my navel, has become white, and I have bitten upon the place of growth of my canine tooth]: i. e., I have become old, and eaten upon the جذم of my ناب. (TA.)

The lower, or lowest, part, or the foundation, of a wall: (Mgh from a tradition:) or the remains thereof: or a portion thereof. (TA.)

See also جِذْمَةٌ.