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jinn

[ jin ]

noun

, Islamic Mythology.
, plural jinns, (especially collectively) jinn.
  1. any of a class of spirits, lower than the angels, capable of appearing in human and animal forms and influencing humankind for either good or evil.


jinn

/ dʒɪn /

noun

  1. See jinni
    often functioning as singular the plural of jinni


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Word History and Origins

Origin of jinn1

1675–85; plural of Arabic jinnī demon

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Example Sentences

Will University of Tehran political science students be obliged to game out strategies against a jinn?

Morgiana threw back her black hair, and laughed as would an invulnerable jinn.

The words genius and genie are evidently cognate with the Arabian jinn, meaning a spirit.

When his sister-in-law with an army of Jinn pursues the fugitives, the subjects of the rod overcome her.

Didst thou not assure me that I was free to wander where I would, since there was no longer any that had authority over the Jinn!

As a sort of inferior and obedient jinn, supplied by Providence and invoked by a gesture to fetch and to carry at need.

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