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نَادِرٌ

Root: ندر

Full Definition

نَادِرٌ [act. part. n. of نَدَرَ; Falling, or going, or coming, out, or forth, from another thing; &c.: see 1].
2 A wild ass going, or coming, forth from the mountain.
3 A prominence, or projecting part, of a mountain.
4 [What remains here and there upon the ground, of rain, i. e., of rain-water: n. un. with ة: pl. of the latter, نَوَادِرُ.] You say, شَرِبَتِ الإِبِلُ مِنْ نَادِرِ, المَطَرِ and نَوَادِرِهِ, [The camels drank of what remained here and there upon the ground, of the water of the rain.]
5 Extraordinary; strange; rare; unusual; applied to speech or language [and to a word and any other thing: fem. and n. un. with ة: pl. of the latter as above: see نَدَرَ, and نَدُرَ]: or very extraordinary, strange, rare, or unusual, applied to speech or language; and in like manner نَادِرَةٌ [as an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates] applied to a word: pl. of the latter as above: (Mz, 13th نَوْع:) [see مُطَّرِدٌ:] or نَوَادِرُ الكَلَامِ signifies what deviate from the generality of words or speech or language. You say also, فُلَانٌ نَادِرَةُ الزَّمَانِ, meaning, Such a one is the unequalled of the age. [And نَادِرَةٌ, used in this manner as a subst., signifies Any extraordinary, strange, rare, or unusual, thing, or saying: pl. as above.] See مُضْحِكَاتٌ.
6 لَا يَكُونُ ذٰلِكَ إِلَّا نَادِرًا: see نَدْرَةٌ.
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