نادر — "rare" in Egyptian Arabic

نادر

naadir

rare

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نادر in a sentence

Every sentence below is taken from a story on Parallel Arabic, so you can see how the word behaves in real context rather than in isolation.

هي كانت محتاجة كتاب تاريخ نادر لمشروعها؛ أهو ده هو؟

Heya kanet mehtaga ketab tareekh nader le mashroo'ha; aho dah howa?

She needed a rare history book for her project; could this be it?

from The Lost Book on El Moez Street

بعد ما سألت كام بياع، لقيت واحد شايب كده عنده محل كتب صغير، قعد يشرحلها إن الكتاب ده نادر وغالي أوي وبيتباع بمية وخمسين جنيه أقل حاجة.

Ba3d ma sa'alet kam bayya3, la'et wahed shayeb keda 3andu ma7all kotob soghayyar, qa3ad yeshra7laha en el-ketab da nader we ghali awi we beyetba3 be miyyet we khamseen geneh a'all haga.

After asking a few vendors, she found an old man who owned a small bookshop, who started explaining to her that this book was very rare and expensive and sold for at least 150 pounds.

from Maryam's Hope in Wekalet el-Balah

كنت بأسأل لو عندك كتاب "تاريخ القاهرة" للمقريزي، يعني هو نادر شوية.

Kunt ba'sa'al law 3andak kitab "Tarikh el-Qahira" lel-Maqrizi, ya3ni howa nader shwayya.

I was asking if you have the book "History of Cairo" by Al-Maqrizi, I mean, it's a bit rare.

from Good Morning at Wekalet el-Balah

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