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زَنَّةٌ ذ A suspicion: whence the saying, ↓ أَبُو زَنَّةٍ شَرٌّ مِنْهُ أَخُو زَنَّةٍ The ape, or baboon, or monkey, (القِرْدُ,) worse than he is the person who has conceived a suspicion: (A, TA:) [for] ― -b2- أَبُو زَنَّةٍ, (so in three copies of the S and in my MS. copy of the K,) or ↓ ابو زِنَّةٍ , (thus in the CK and TK and JM, [in the second and third of which it is expressly said to be “ with kesr, ” which, however, the author of the K should have added, accord. to his usual practice, if he meant it to be thus,]) signifies القِرْدُ. (S, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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