حضن

حَاضِنٌ حاضن A man who has the charge of [ carrying and ] rearing, or nourishing, or fostering, a child: (Msb, * TA:) and حَاضِنَةٌ A woman who has the charge of a child, (S, Mgh, Msb, * K, TA,) who carries him, (Mgh,) and takes care of him, (TA,) and rears, or nourishes, or fosters, him: (S, 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]. ― -b2- [Hence,] هُوَ مِنْ حَضَنَةِ العِلْمِ, (tropical:) i. e. علمته [a mistranscription for غِلْمَتِهِ, meaning He is of the servants of learning, or science ]. (TA.) ― -b3- حَمَامَةٌ حَاضِنٌ (Mgh, Msb, TA) and حَاضِنَةٌ (Msb) A pigeon sitting [or brooding ] upon its eggs, protecting them with its two sides; (Mgh;) or pressing, or compressing, its eggs beneath its wing. (Msb.) ― -b4- [Hence,] سُفْعٌ حَوَاضِنُ [pl. of حَاضِنَةٌ] (tropical:) Three stones for supporting a cooking-pot, cleaving to the ground, (K, TA,) with the ashes. (TA.) ― -b5- حَاضِنَةٌ also signifies A man's wife: and so حَاصِنَةٌ. (TA.) ― -b6- And a palm-tree (نَخْلَةٌ) having short racemes: (Kr, K:) or one of which the racemes have come forth, and quitted their spathes, and are short in their fruit-stalks. (AHn, K.)