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زنء

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

2 زَنّأ عَلَيْهِ ذ , inf. n. تَزْنِئَةٌ, He straitened, or oppressed, him; made strait, or close, to him; (S, K, TA;) as also عليه ↓ زَنَأَ. (TA.) The verb occurs without ء, written زَنَّى, by poetic license, in a saying of a rájiz cited in art. شدخ, as an ex. of the word شَادِخَةٌ. (S.) And عَلَيْهِ الحِجَارَةَ ↓ زَنَؤُوا occurs in a trad. as meaning They made the stones strait, or close, to him, or upon him. (TA.)

Derived headwords

زَنّأ عَلَيْهِverb
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عَلَيْهِ الحِجَارَةَ