زَنَأَ فِى الجَبَلِ

, (S, Msb, K,) aorist زَنَاَ , (Msb, K, *) verbal noun زَنْءٌ and زُنُوْءٌ, (S, Msb, K,) He ascended the mountain. (S, Msb, K.)

زَنَأَ إِلَيْهِ, (S, K,) aorist as above, (K,) verbal noun زُنُوْءٌ (S, K) and زَنْءٌ, (K,) He (a man, S) had recourse to it (a thing, TA) for refuge, protection, preservation, concealment, covert, or lodging. (S, K.)

And He approached it, or drew near to it; (K, TA;) namely, a thing. (TA.) [Hence,] زَنَأَ الخَمْسِينَ, (S,) or لِلْخَمْسِينَ, verbal noun زَنْءٌ, (TA,) He drew near to the [age of] fifty [years]. (S, TA.)

زَنَأَ said of the shade, (S, K,) It became short; (S;) it contracted, shrank, or drew together. (K.)

Said of a place, (TA in article زنو,] It was, or became, strait, or narrow; and زَنَا, without ء, verbal noun زُنُوٌّ, is a dialect var. thereof in this sense. (ISd, K, TA; all in article زنو.)

Said of the urine, (S, Msb, K,) aorist زَنَاَ , (S, TA,) or زَنُاَ , (Msb,) verbal noun زُنُوْءٌ (S, Msb, TA) and زَنْءٌ, (TA,) It became retained, or suppressed. (S, Msb, K, TA.)

Also He, or it, clave to the ground. (K.)

He hastened, or made haste. (K.)

And He was, or became, affected with a lively emotion, either of joy or of grief; synonym طَرِبَ. (K.)

-A2- See also 2, in two places: and see 4.

زَنَأَ is also explained in the K as signifying خَنَقَ [He throttled, or strangled]: but [SM says,] I have not found any of the leading lexicologists to have mentioned this, unless it be a mistranscription for حَقَنَ [a meaning assigned to this verb below: see 4]. (TA.)