جذم

جِذْمٌ ذ The root, source, origin, or original, or the fundamental or essential or principal part, syn. أَصْل, (S, Msb, K,) of a thing, (S, Msb, TA,) whatever that thing be; (TA;) as also ↓ جَذْمٌ: (S, K:) pl. [of pauc.] أَجْذَامٌ and [of mult.] جُذُومٌ. (K.) ― -b2- The family of a people; their kinsfolk: whence the saying, in a trad., لَمْ يَكْنْ رَجُلٌ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ اـِلَّا لَهُ جِذْمٌ بِمَكَّةَ [ There was not a man of Kureysh but he had kinsfolk in Mekkeh ]. (TA.) [And app. The main stock from which tribes are derived: for,] accord. to some, it ranks before شَعْبٌ. (TA voce بَطْنٌ.) ― -b3- The places [or place ] of growth of the teeth. (TA.) A poet says, (S,) namely, El-Hárith Ibn-Waaleh, (TA,) اَلْاآنَ لَمَّا ا@بْيَضَّ 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.) ― -b4- The lower, or lowest, part, or the foundation, of a wall: (Mgh from a trad.:) or the remains thereof: or a portion thereof. (TA.) ― -b5- See also جِذْمَةٌ.