jinn

• genie, ginn, djinn, djinni, djinny, jinnee, jinni, jin

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

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɪn/
• Rhymes: -ɪn
• Homophone: gin

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.

• jann, jinni, genie

• angel
• ghoul
• ifrit
• jann
• nasnas
• shaitan

jinn m (plural jinns)

1. (Islam) jinn (spirit)

   Synonym: génio

jinn m (plural jinns)

1. Alternative spelling of djinn