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1. ⇒ حضن

حَضَنَ الصَّبِىَّ, (Ḳ,) aor. ـُ {يَحْضُنُ}, (TA,) inf. n. حَضْنٌ and حِضَانَةٌ, He put the child in his حِضْن [i. e. under his arm, or in his bosom]: or he nourished him, reared him, fostered him, brought him up, (Ḳ, TA,) and took care of him; (TA;) as alsoاحتضنهُ↓. (Ḳ, TA.) And حَضَنَتْ وَلَدَهَا, (Ṣ, Mgh,) aor. ـُ {يَحْضُنُ}, (Mgh, TA,) inf. n. حِضَانَةٌ, (Mgh,) said of a woman, (Ṣ, Mgh, TA,) She put her child in her حِضْن, and [thus] carried him [under her arm,] on one of her two sides: (TA:) it has a similar meaning to the phrase next following: (Ṣ:) or it means she had charge of her child, and carried him, and reared him, or fostered him. (Mgh.)

Root: حضن - Entry: 1. Signification: A2

حَضَنَ بَيْضَهُ, (Ṣ, Mgh, Mṣb, Ḳ,) and عَلَى بَيْضِهِ, (TA,) aor. ـُ {يَحْضُنُ}, (Ṣ, Mṣb,) inf. n. حَضْنٌ (Mgh, Mṣb) and حِضَانَةٌ (Mṣb, Ḳ) and حِضَانٌ and حُضُونٌ, (Ḳ,) said of a bird, (Ṣ, Mgh, Mṣb, Ḳ,) He pressed, or compressed, his eggs (Ṣ, Mṣb) to himself, (Ṣ,) beneath his wing, (Ṣ, Mṣb,) or beneath his two wings; (so in some copies of the Ṣ;) he sat upon his eggs, protecting them with his two sides (بِحِضْنَيْهِ); (Mgh;) he brooded upon his eggs to hatch them: (Ḳ:) as alsoاحتضن↓. (KL.)

Root: حضن - Entry: 1. Signification: A3

حَضَنَ بَيْضَةً تَحْتَ دَجَاجَةٍ لَهُ حَتَّى أَفْرَخَتْ, meaning He put an egg beneath a hen belonging to him, and made her to sit [or brood] upon it [until it became hatched], if remembered to have been heard [from any of the Arabs of pure speech], is a tropical usage of the verb, like as when one says” The Emeer built the city: “otherwise, it is correctly [حَضَّنَ↓,] with teshdeed. (Mgh.)

Root: حضن - Entry: 1. Signification: A4

حَضَنَهُ عَنْ كَذَا, inf. n. حَضْنٌ and حِضَانَةٌ, ‡ He made him to turn away, withdraw, or retire, from such a thing, and had it to himself exclusively; (Ṣ, Ḳ, TA;) as though he put him aside from it, or by its side: he excluded him from participation in it; in which senseأَحْضَنَهُ↓ مِنْهُ is disapproved: (TA:) he impeded him, or debarred him, from it. (ISd, TA.) It is related in a trad. of Ibn-Mesʼood that, when he made his will, he said, وَلَا تُحْضَنُ زَيْنَبُ عَنْ ذٰلِكَ, meaning † And Zeyneb (his wife) shall not be precluded from looking into that and executing it; namely, his will: or shall not be precluded from it, nor shall any matter [relating to it] be decided without her. (TA.) And you say also, حَضَنَهُ عَنْ حَاجَتِهِ He withheld him from the object of his want; as alsoاحتضنهُ↓. (Ṣ, ISd, Ḳ.) And حَضَنَ مَعْرُوفَهُ, (Ḳ,) and حَدِيثَهُ, (TA,) عَنْ جِيرَانِهِ, (Ḳ,) and مَعَارِفِهِ, (TA,) inf. n. حَضْنٌ, (Ḳ,)He turned his beneficence, (Ḳ, TA,) and his discourse, (TA,) from his neighbours, (Ḳ, TA,) and his acquaintances, to others: on the authority of Lḥ. (TA.)

Root: حضن - Entry: 1. Dissociation: B

حَضَنَتْ, aor. ـُ {يَحْضُنُ}, inf. n. حِضَانٌ, (Ḳ,) or this is a simple subst., (AʼObeyd, TA,) She (a ewe [or goat], and a camel, and a woman,) had one of her teats, or breasts, larger than the other. (Ḳ.) [See حَضُونٌ.]


2. ⇒ حضّن


3. ⇒ حاضن

فُلَانٌ يُحَاضِنُ النِّسَآءِ [Such a one indulges himself with women in mutual embracing or pressing to the bosom]. (IAạr, TA in explanation of the epithet عُقَرَةٌ, q. v.)


4. ⇒ احضن

احضن الطَّائِرَ البَيْضَ He made the bird to sit [or brood] upon the eggs. (Mṣb.)

Root: حضن - Entry: 4. Signification: A2

أَحْضَنَهُ مِنْهُ: see 1.

Root: حضن - Entry: 4. Signification: A3

احضن بِحَقِّىHe went away with, or took away, my right, or due; (Ḳ, TA;) as though he put it by his side. (TA.)

Root: حضن - Entry: 4. Signification: A4

احضن الرَّجُلَ, (AZ, Ṣ, Ḳ,*) and احضن بِهِ, (Ḳ,) i. q. أَزْرَى بِهِ[He held him in little, or light, or mean, estimation, or in contempt;, &c.]. (AZ, Ṣ, Ḳ.)


[6. {تحاضن}]

[تحاضنوا They embraced one another, or pressed one another to the bosom. See also 3.]


8. ⇒ احتضن

احتضنهُ He put it (a thing) in his حِضْن [i. e. under his arm, or in his bosom]: (Ṣ, Mṣb:) he took it up, and put it in his حِضْن, like as a woman takes up her child, and carries him [in her حضن or] on one of her two sides. (TA.)

Root: حضن - Entry: 8. Signification: A2

See also 1, in three places.


حُضْنٌ

حُضْنٌ: see what next follows.


حِضْنٌ

حِضْنٌ The part beneath the armpit, (Ṣ, Mgh, Mṣb, Ḳ,) extending to the كَشْح [or flank]: (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ:) or the bosom, or breast; syn. صَدْر: [الصَّدْرِ in the CK should be الصَّدْرُ:] and the upper arms with what is between them: (Ḳ:) andمُحْتَضَنٌ↓ signifies the same: (Ṣ:) pl. of the former أَحْضَانٌ (Mṣb, Ḳ *) [and accord. to Freytag's Lex. حُضُونٌ also].

Root: حضن - Entry: حِضْنٌ Signification: A2

The side of a thing, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) and of a man: (Mgh:) the lateral, or adjacent, part of a thing: pl. أَحْضَانٌ. (Ṣ,* Ḳ.) حِضْنَا المَفَازَةِ means The two borders [the nearer border and the further] of the desert. (M, TA.) And حِضْنَا اللَّيْلِThe two sides [or first and last portions] of the night. (TA.) And [as the حِضْن of a man or woman is often a place of concealment,] one says, مَا زَالَ يَقْطَعُ أَحْضَانَ اللَّيْلِ[meaning He ceased not to traverse the shades of the night]. (TA.) عَلَيْكُمْ بِالحِضْنَيْنِ, in a trad. of ʼAlee, means [Keep ye to] the two wings of the army. (TA.) You say also, أَخَذَ فُلَانٌ حَقَّهُ عَلَى حِضْنِهِ, i. e. Such a one took his right, or due, by force. (TA.)

Root: حضن - Entry: حِضْنٌ Signification: A3

Also ‡ The quantity that is carried in the حِضْن. (A.)

Root: حضن - Entry: حِضْنٌ Signification: A4

Also, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) andحُضْنٌ↓, (Ḳ,) The hole, or den, or subterranean habitation, of the hyena: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) or the place of hunting, or of capture, of the hyena. (IB, TA.)

Root: حضن - Entry: حِضْنٌ Signification: A5

And, both these words, The circuit, or surrounding part, of a mountain: or its base; or lower, or lowest, part. (Ḳ.) Accord. to Az, حِضْنَا الجَبَلِ means The two lateral, or adjacent, parts of the mountain. (TA.)


حَضَنٌ

حَضَنٌ Ivory: (ISk, Ṣ, Ḳ:) the tush of the elephant. (T, TA.)


حِضَانٌ

حِضَانٌ The state, or condition, of a ewe, or she-goat, (Ṣ, TA,) and of a she-camel, and of a man in respect of his testicles, and of the pudendum muliebre, (TA,) denoted by the epithet حَضُونٌ. (Ṣ, TA.) [See also حَضُنَتْ.]


حَضُونٌ

حَضُونٌ A ewe, and a she-camel, and a woman, having one of her teats, or breasts, larger than the other: (Ḳ:) or, applied to a ewe or she-goat, i. q. شَطُورٌ; i. e. having one of her teats longer than the other: (Ṣ:) or a she-camel, and a she-goat, of which one of her طُبْيَانِ [meaning either two mammæ or two teats] has gone. (AʼObeyd, TA.)

Root: حضن - Entry: حَضُونٌ Signification: A2

Also A man having one of his testicles larger than the other. (Ḳ.)

Root: حضن - Entry: حَضُونٌ Signification: A3

And A pudendum muliebre having the edge of one of its labia majora (i. e. having one of its شُفْرَانِ) larger than the other. (Ḳ.)


حَضَانَةٌ

حَضَانَةٌ and حِضَانَةٌ [The office, or occupation, of carrying and rearing or fostering a child: the latter, accord. to the Ḳ and the Mgh, is an inf. n.: (see 1, first two sentences:) but accord. to Fei,] each is a subst. from حَاضِنٌ applied to a man, and حَاضِنَةٌ applied to a woman. (Mṣb.)


حَاضِنٌ

حَاضِنٌ A man who has the charge of [carrying and] rearing, or nourishing, or fostering, a child: (Mṣb,* TA:) and حَاضِنَةٌ A woman who has the charge of a child, (Ṣ, Mgh, Mṣb,* Ḳ, TA,) who carries him, (Mgh,) and takes care of him, (TA,) and rears, or nourishes, or fosters, him: (Ṣ, Mgh, TA:) pl. of the former حُضَّانٌ (TA) [and حَضَنَةٌ (as in a phrase below), agreeably with a general rule: and pl. of the latter, also agreeably with a general rule, حَوَاضِنُ].

Root: حضن - Entry: حَاضِنٌ Signification: A2

[Hence,] هُوَ مِنْ حَضَنَةِ العِلْمِ, ‡ i. e. علمته [a mistranscription for غِلْمَتِهِ, meaning He is of the servants of learning, or science]. (TA.)

Root: حضن - Entry: حَاضِنٌ Signification: A3

حَمَامَةٌ حَاضِنٌ (Mgh, Mṣb, TA) and حَاضِنَةٌ (Mṣb) A pigeon sitting [or brooding] upon its eggs, protecting them with its two sides; (Mgh;) or pressing, or compressing, its eggs beneath its wing. (Mṣb.)

Root: حضن - Entry: حَاضِنٌ Signification: A4

[Hence,] سُفْعٌ حَوَاضِنُ [pl. of حَاضِنَةٌ]Three stones for supporting a cooking-pot, cleaving to the ground, (Ḳ, TA,) with the ashes. (TA.)

Root: حضن - Entry: حَاضِنٌ Signification: A5

حَاضِنَةٌ also signifies A man's wife: and so حَاصِنَةٌ. (TA.)

Root: حضن - Entry: حَاضِنٌ Signification: A6

And a palm-tree (نَخْلَةٌ) having short racemes: (Kr, Ḳ:) or one of which the racemes have come forth, and quitted their spathes, and are short in their fruit-stalks. (AḤn, Ḳ.)


مَحْضَنٌ

مَحْضَنٌ and مَحْضِنٌ The place in which a bird broods upon its eggs to hatch them: (Ḳ:) pl. مَحَاضِنُ. (TA.) See also what next follows.


مِحْضَنَةٌ

مِحْضَنَةٌ A shallow bowl, made of clay, for the pigeon (Ḳ, TA) [to lay its eggs therein, and] to brood therein upon its eggs: (TA:) مَحَاضِنٌ [is its pl.], accord. to rule, pl. ofمَحْضَنٌ↓ [&c., and] signifies the places, in pigeon-towers, in which the pigeons lay their eggs. (Mgh.) [See what next precedes.]


مُحْتَضَنٌ

مُحْتَضَنٌ: see حِضْنٌ.


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