ندر

نَادِرٌ ذ [act. part. n. of نَدَرَ; Falling, or going, or coming, out, or forth, from another thing; &c.: see 1]. ― -b2- A wild ass going, or coming, forth from the mountain. (TA.) ― -b3- A prominence, or projecting part, of a mountain. (A, * Msb.) ― -b4- [ 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 الاـِبِلُ مِنْ نَادِرِ, المَطَرِ and نَوَادِرِهِ, [ The camels drank of what remained here and there upon the ground, of the water of the rain. ] (A.) ― -b5- (tropical:) 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]: (A:) 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. (S, * M, K.) You say also, فُلَانٌ نَادِرَةُ الزَّمَانِ, meaning, (tropical:) Such a one is the unequalled of the age. (K, * TA.) [And نَادِرَةٌ, used in this manner as a subst., signifies (tropical:) Any extraordinary, strange, rare, or unusual, thing, or saying: pl. as above.] See مُضْحِكَاتٌ. ― -b6- لَا يَكُونُ ذٰلِكَ اـِلَّا نَادِرًا: see نَدْرَةٌ.