هَادِرٌ

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هَادِرٌ , applied to a man, Low; ignoble; mean; of no account; worthless; as also هَدْرٌ , and هُدَرَةٌ ; which last is also applied to a woman: (K, TA: [in the former of which it seems to be implied that هَدَرَةٌ and هِدَرَةٌ are also applied, each, to a man and to a woman; but it appears from what is said in the TA that this is not the case:]) pl. هَدَرَةٌ and هُدَرَةٌ and هِدَرَةٌ; the first of which is the most agreeable with analogy, like كَفَرَةٌ, pl. of كَافِرٌ; the second being of a measure exclusively belonging to words which are unsound [in the last radical letter], as in the instances of غُزَاةٌ and قُضَاةٌ, [originally غُزَوَةٌ and قُضَيَةٌ, pls. of غَازٍ and قَاضٍ,] unless, indeed, it be a quasi-pl. n.; and some disapprove it, finding fault with IAar who relates it: the third, moreover, is not a pl. of a form, [regularly] belonging to a sing. of the measure فَاعِلٌ, whether sound or unsound: [or, accord. to Sb, it is a quasi-pl. n.:] or it is pl. of هِدْرٌ . which signifies a heavy man, in whom is no good; analogous with قِرَدَةٌ, pl. of قِرْدٌ. and [a quasi-pl. n. of هَادِرٌ, like as خَدَمٌ is of خَادِمٌ,] signifies low, ignoble, or mean, people, in whom is no good. You say, هُمْ هَدَرَةٌ, and هِدَرَةٌ, and هُدَرَةٌ, They are low, ignoble, or mean, people; of no account, or worthless.

def.2 [A braying camel: fem. with ة pl. of the latter, هَوَادِرُ. You say,] إِبِلٌ هَوَادِرٌ [Braying camels;] camels reiterating their voices in their حَنَاجِر. See also مُهَدِّرٌ, and مُبَحْثِرٌ. and هَدَّارٌ.
2 [Hence the saying,] فُلَانٌ فُحْلٌ هَادِرٌ [app. Such a one is a vigorous orator of sonorous and fluent speech].

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