حضن

See also: حصن

Arabic

Etymology

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

Verb

حَضَنَ • (ḥaḍana) I, non-past يَحْضُنُ‎ (yaḥḍunu)

  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 [+ عَن (object)]

Conjugation

Noun

حِضْن • (ḥiḍn) m (plural أَحْضَان (ʔaḥḍān))

  1. breast; bosom
  2. spread arms; armful

Declension

Noun

حَضْن • (ḥaḍn) m

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

Declension

Noun

حَضَن • (ḥaḍan) m

  1. ivory
  2. a mountain in Najd

Declension

Noun

حُضْن • (ḥuḍn) m

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

Declension

References

  • 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 (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 (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 (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 267
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