jinni

English

Etymology

From Arabic جِنِّيّ‎ (jinniyy)

Noun

jinni (plural jinnis or jinn)

Alternative form of jinn
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 213:
  [W]hen the Jinni narrated to the Jinniyah how the King had caused the wedding contract to be drawn up [...] the Jinniyah cried at him "Thou liest!"

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