Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

زَنَا, [aor. يَزْنُو,] inf. n. زُنُوٌّ, It was, or became, strait, or narrow; a dial. var. of زَنَأَ; (ISd, Ḳ, TA;) said of a place. (TA.)

زنّى عَلَيْهِ He straitened, or oppressed, him; made strait, or close, to him: (ISd, Ḳ:) it occurs thus, without ء, by poetic license, for زَنَّأَ, in a saying of a rájiz cited in art. شدخ, as an ex. of the word شَادِخَةٌ. (Ṣ in art. زنأ.)

زنّى also signifies He (a man) became lax in his joints. (TA in art. زن.)

زَنِىٌّ Strait, or narrow; (Ḳ;) as alsoزَنَآءٌ↓: (TA in art. زنأ from the Fáïk; and in art. زن:) the former mentioned in this sense by IAạr; (TA;) applied to a bag, or other receptacle. (Ḳ, TA.) [See also زَنِىْءٌ, in art. زنأ.]