زَنَّةٌ

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]

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, according to his usual practice, if he meant it to be thus,]) signifies القِرْدُ. (S, K.)