نَادِرٌ
1.
[act. particle 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. (TA.)
3.
A prominence, or projecting part, of a mountain. (A, * Msb.)
4.
[What remains here and there upon the ground, of rain, i. e., of rain-water: n. un. with ة: plural 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.] (A.)
5.
(tropical:) Extraordinary; strange; rare; unusual; applied to speech or language [and to a word and any other thing: feminine and n. un. with ة: plural 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: plural 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: plural as above.] See مُضْحِكَاتٌ.
6.
لَا يَكُونُ ذٰلِكَ إِلَّا نَادِرًا: see نَدْرَةٌ.