حضن

1 حَضَنَ الصَّبِىَّ حضن الصبى حضن الصبي , (K,) aor. حَضُنَ , (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, (K, TA,) and took care of him; (TA;) as also ↓ احتضنهُ. (K, TA.) And حَضَنَتْ وَلَدَهَا, (S, Mgh,) aor. حَضُنَ , (Mgh, TA,) inf. n. حِضَانَةٌ, (Mgh,) said of a woman, (S, 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: (S:) or it means she had charge of her child, and carried him, and reared him, or fostered him. (Mgh.) ― -b2- حَضَنَ بَيْضَهُ, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) and عَلَى بَيْضِهِ, (TA,) aor. حَضُنَ , (S, Msb,) inf. n. حَضْنٌ (Mgh, Msb) and حِضَانَةٌ (Msb, K) and حِضَانٌ and حُضُونٌ, (K,) said of a bird, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) He pressed, or compressed, his eggs (S, Msb) to himself, (S,) beneath his wing, (S, Msb,) or beneath his two wings; (so in some copies of the S;) he sat upon his eggs, protecting them with his two sides (بِحِضْنَيْهِ); (Mgh;) he brooded upon his eggs to hatch them: (K:) as also ↓ احتضن. (KL.) ― -b3- 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.) ― -b4- حَضَنَهُ عَنْ كَذَا, inf. n. حَضْنٌ and حِضَانَةٌ, (tropical:) He made him to turn away, withdraw, or retire, from such a thing, and had it to himself exclusively; (S, K, TA;) as though he put him aside from it, or by its side: he excluded him from participation in it; in which sense مِنْهُ ↓ أَحْضَنَهُ is disapproved: (TA:) he impeded him, or debarred him, from it. (ISd, TA.) It is related in a trad. of Ibn-Mes'ood that, when he made his will, he said, وَ لَا تُحْضَنُ زَيْنَبُ عَنْ ذٰلِكَ, meaning (assumed tropical:) 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 also ↓ احتضنهُ. (S, ISd, K.) And حَضَنَ مَعْرُوفَهُ, (K,) and حَدِيثَهُ, (TA,) عَنْ جِيرَانِهِ, (K,) and مَعَارِفِهِ, (TA,) inf. n. حَضْنٌ, (K,) (assumed tropical:) He turned his beneficence, (K, TA,) and his discourse, (TA,) from his neighbours, (K, TA,) and his acquaintances, to others: on the authority of Lh. (TA.) -A2- حَضَنَتْ, aor. حَضُنَ , inf. n. حِضَانٌ, (K,) or this is a simple subst., (A 'Obeyd, TA,) She (a ewe [or goat], and a camel, and a woman,) had one of her teats, or breasts, larger than the other. (K.) [See حَضُونٌ.]