زَنّأ عَلَيْهِ

, verbal noun تَزْنِيءَةٌ, 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 article شدخ, as an example of the word شَادِخَةٌ. (S.) And عَلَيْهِ الحِجَارَةَ ↓ زَنَوءُوا occurs in a tradition as meaning They made the stones strait, or close, to him, or upon him. (TA.)