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نَدَرَ

Root: ندر

Form: 1

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نَدَرَI , Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun نَدْرٌ, or نُدُورٌ, [which latter is the more common, if not the only right, form,] It fell, or went, or came, out, or forth, from another thing, or from other things, or from amid a thing, or from the inside of a thing, or from among things, so as to be apparent, or standing out to view; it fell, and became apart, fell off, fell out, or went, or came, out, or forth, from the generality of things, or the general assemblage, main body, bulk, or common mass, to which it pertained, or from other things: or, [in some cases,] simply, it fell, or dropped.
2 نَدَرَ مِنْ قَوْمِهِ He went forth [and became separated] from his people. And نَدَرَ مِنْ بَيْتِهِ He went forth from his house or tent. I heard one say to his wife, أُنْدُرِى [Go thou forth and be separate: app. meaning, be thou divorced].
3 نَدَرَ العَظْمُ, or نَدَرَ مِنْ مَوْضِعِهِ, The bone became dislocated or displaced. It is said of a man, in a trad., عَضَّ يَدَ آخَرَ فَنَدَرَ ثَنِيَّتَهُ [or, accord. to another relation, نَدَرَتْ, meaning, He bit the arm, or hand, of another, and his central incisor dropped out].
4 نَدَرَ طَائِرٌ عَنْ شَجَرَةٍ A bird dropped and alighted from a tree.
5 نَدَرَ نَادِرٌ مِنَ الجَبَلِ A prominence projected, or jutted out, from the mountain.
6 أَصَابَ المَطَرُ الحَشِيشَ فَنَدَرَ الرُّطْبُ The rain fell upon the dry herbage and the fresh herbage came forth. And نَدَرَ النَّبَاتُ The plant put forth its leaves from its uppermost branches. And نَدَرَتِ الشَّجَرَةُ The tree produced its خُوصَة [q. v.]; which is the case when the camels are able to pasture upon them: or became green.
7 نَدَرَ فِى عِلْمٍ, or فَضْلٍ, and فى فَضْلِهِ, He outwent others [or became extraordinary] in knowledge or science, or in excellence, and in his excellence.
8 نَدُرَ الكَلَامُ, Verbal.Noun نَدَرَاةٌ, The speech, or language, was extraordinary or strange, [with respect to usage or analogy or both]: it was the contr. of chaste: (Mz, 13th نوع:) [but this explanation requires restriction; for what is extraordinary with respect to usage is the contr. of chaste; but many a word that is extraordinary with respect to analogy is more chaste than a cognate word agreeable with analogy: hence the above phrase is also explained as signifying] the speech, or language, was chaste and good.
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