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حضن

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See also: حصن

Arabic

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Etymology

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From the root ح ض ن (ḥ-ḍ-n), from Proto-Semitic *ḥaṣ́an-. Compare Hebrew חֹצֶן (ḥṓṣen), Classical Syriac ܚܢܐ and Ge'ez ሐፀነ (ḥäṣ́änä).

Verb

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حَضَنَ (ḥaḍana) I (non-past يَحْضُنُ (yaḥḍunu), verbal noun حَضْن (ḥaḍn) or حَضَانَة (ḥaḍāna))

  1. to hug, to embrace
    • 1962, مُحَمَّد مَهْدِيّ الْجَوَاهِرِيّ [muḥammad mahdiyy al-jawāhiriyy], “يَا دِجْلَةَ الْخَيْر [yā dijlata l-ḵayr]”, in سَعِيد عَلِيّ [saʕīd ʕaliyy], editor, دِيوَان اَلْجَوَاهِرِيّ [dīwān al-jawāhiriyy], part 1, Lebanon: اَلْمَكْتَبَة الْعَصْرِيَّة [al-maktaba(t) al-ʕaṣriyya], published October 1967, →OCLC, page 37:
      سَهِرْتُ لَيْلَ أَخِي ذُبْيَانَ أَحْضُنُهُ / حَضْنَ الرَّوَاضِعِ بَيْنَ الْعَتِّ وَٱللِّينِ
      sahirtu layla ʔaḵī ḏubyāna ʔaḥḍunuhu / ḥaḍna ar-rawāḍiʕi bayna l-ʕatti wal-līni
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. to incubate, to hatch
  3. to nurse, to raise, to rear
  4. to deter, to keep off [with عَن (ʕan)]

Conjugation

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Noun

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حِضْن (ḥiḍnm (plural أَحْضَان (ʔaḥḍān))

  1. breast; bosom
  2. spread arms; armful

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حَضْن (ḥaḍnm

  1. verbal noun of حَضَنَ (ḥaḍana) (form I)

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Noun

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حَضَن (ḥaḍanm

  1. ivory
  2. a mountain in Najd

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حُضْن (ḥuḍnm

  1. hiding place of a hyena
  2. foot of a mountain, base

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References

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  • حضن” in Almaany
  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “حضن”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 394
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “حضن”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc[2] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 449
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “حضن”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 267