حاضن doesn't appear in Hans Wehr's Modern Standard Arabic dictionary, but Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon has an entry for it. Select the entry below for the full classical Arabic definition.

• حَاضِنٌ

  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…

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