ح ض ن

Arabic

Root

ح ض ن • (ḥ-ḍ-n)

1. related to enfolding

Derived terms

Verbs

• Form I: حَضَنَ (ḥaḍana, “to embrace; to rear”)
  • Verbal noun: حَضْن (ḥaḍn), حِضَانَة (ḥiḍāna)
  • Active participle: حَاضِن (ḥāḍin)
  • Passive participle: مَحْضُون (maḥḍūn)
• Form IV: أَحْضَنَ (ʔaḥḍana, “to relieve, to unhitch”)
  • Verbal noun: إِحْضَان (ʔiḥḍān)
  • Active participle: مُحْضِن (muḥḍin)
  • Passive participle: مُحْضَن (muḥḍan)
• Form VI: تَحَاضَنَ (taḥāḍana, “to embrace each other”)
  • Verbal noun: تَحَاضُن (taḥāḍun)
  • Active participle: مُتَحَاضِن (mutaḥāḍin)
  • Passive participle: مُتَحَاضَن (mutaḥāḍan)
• Form VIII: اِحْتَضَنَ (iḥtaḍana, “to take into arms, to embrace; to host”)
  • Verbal noun: اِحْتِضَان (iḥtiḍān)
  • Active participle: مُحْتَضِن (muḥtaḍin)
  • Passive participle: مُحْتَضَن (muḥtaḍan)

Nouns

• حِضْن m (ḥiḍn, “bosom”); pl. أَحْضَان (ʔaḥḍān)
• حُضْن m (ḥuḍn, “hiding place of the hyena”)
• حَضَن m (ḥaḍan, “ivory; a mountain in Najd”)
• مَحْضَن m (maḥḍan, “nid; cradle, crib”); pl. مَحَاضِن (maḥāḍin)
• حَاضِنَة f (ḥāḍina, “nurse, caregiver”); pl. حَوَاضِن (ḥawāḍin)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1830) “ح ض ن”, 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) “ح ض ن”, 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 C^ie, page 449
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ح ض ن”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 267