Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
jinn . Also spelleddjinnee .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Arabian & Mohammedan Myth.) A genius or demon; one of the fabled genii, good and evil spirits, supposed to be the children of fire, and to have the power of assuming various forms.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
jinni .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Islam) an invisible spirit mentioned in the Koran and believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals
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Examples
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With women like Cressida, Gertrude, and the Dark Lady of the Sonnets, the jinnee is out of the bottle.
Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002
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_A fearsome jinnee of monstrous stature appeared_, Salahuddin remembered.
The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967
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If Schiller and Goethe dare once to come out of their exile, then Nestroy's plum-pudding jinnee steps in their path, and they of course modestly give way to him.
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At last, through the aid of a friendly jinnee, the hero recovers her, captures the ape, and encloses it forever in a bottle of brass.
Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler
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But Seyf el-Mulook got possession of the sparrow and strangled it, and the jinnee fell upon the ground a heap of black ashes.
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Every month they drew lots, and he upon whom the lot fell gave up his daughter to the jinnee of the sea.
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Every month they drew lots, and he upon whom the lot fell gave up his daughter to the jinnee of the sea.
Chapter 12. The Sacred Marriage. § 2. The Marriage of the Gods 1922
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The last of the maidens thus offered to the demon was rescued by a pious Berber, who by reciting the Koran succeeded in driving the jinnee back into the sea.
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The last of the maidens thus offered to the demon was rescued by a pious Berber, who by reciting the Koran succeeded in driving the jinnee back into the sea.
Chapter 12. The Sacred Marriage. § 2. The Marriage of the Gods 1922
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In the story of Seyf el-Mulook in the Arabian Nights the jinnee tells the captive daughter of the King of India, When I was born, the astrologers declared that the destruction of my soul would be effected by the hand of one of the sons of the human kings.
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