ادم

اـِدَامٌ أدام اـدام ادام (T, S, M, Mgh, Msb, K) and ↓ أُدْمٌ (the same except the K) [ Seasoning, or condiment, for bread; and any savoury food; ] what is used for seasoniny (مَا يُؤْتَدَمُ بِهِ, T, S, M, * Mgh, Msb, K) with bread; (T, TA;) that which renders bread pleasant and good and savoury; (IAmb, Mgh;) whether fluid or not fluid; (Mgh, Msb;) صِبْغٌ and صِبَاغٌ being peculiarly applied to that which is fluid: (Mgh:) or أُدْمٌ is anything that is eaten with bread: (TA:) the pl. [of mult.] of اـِدَامٌ is أُدُمٌ, (Mgh, Msb,) and, by contraction, أُدْمٌ, which is also used as the sing., (Msb,) and [pl. of pauc.] اآدِمَةٌ (M, K) and اآدَامٌ; (K;) or this last is pl. of أُدْمٌ. (M, Mgh, Msb, TA.) It is said in a trad., نِعْمَ الاـِدَامُ الخَلُّ [ Excellent, or most excel-lent, is the seasoning, vinegar! ]. (T, TA.) And in another, سَيِّدُ اآدَامِ الدُّنْيَا وَالاآخِرَةِ اللَّحْمُ [ The prince of the seasonings of the present world and of the world to come is flesh-meat ]. (TA.) ― -b2- هُوَ اـِدَامُ أَهْلِهِ, and اـِدَامُ قَوْمِهِ: see أَدَمَةٌ. ― -b3- Anything conforming, or conformable; agreeing, or agreeable; suiting, or suitable. (M, K.) [Used also as a pl.: thus,] 'Ádiyeh Ed-Dubeyreeyeh says, كَانُوا لِمَنْ خَالَطَهُمْ اـِدَامَا [ They were, to those who mixed with them in social intercourse, conformable, or agreeable. ] (M.)