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jinn

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From Arabic جِنّ (jinn, collective noun) (singular جِنِّيّ (jinniyy)).

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jinn (plural jinns or jinn or jawan or jinnan or jinnah)

  1. (Arabic culture) A human-like spiritual or immaterial being, as opposed to al-ins (people), often invisible but able to manifest in form and also inhabit people or animals; origin of the genie of Western literature, film etc.
  2. Such beings collectively.
    • 1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 8:
      There not only jewels but also dangerous jinn abide: the inconvenient or resisted psychological powers that we have not thought or dared to integrate into our lives.
    • 2020, Abu-Hamdiyyah, Muhammad, The Qur'an: an introduction, Routledge, page 101:
      Surah 18:50: 'And We told the Angels "prostrate yourselves before Adam". So they all prostrated themselves, except Iblees who was one of the jinn.
    • 2020, Abu-Hamdiyyah, Muhammad, The Qur'an: an introduction, Routledge, page 101:
      The second context in which jinn occurs in the Qur'an is where we find both ins and jinn are mentioned together. Ins is a collective noun signifying humans, recognisable familiar human beings.

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jinn m (plural jinns)

  1. (Islam) jinn (spirit)
    Synonym: génio

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jinn m (plural jinns)

  1. Alternative spelling of djinn
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