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jinni

/ dʒɪˈniː; ˈdʒɪnɪ /

noun

a being or spirit in Muslim belief who could assume human or animal form and influence man by supernatural powers

Origin of jinni¹

C17: from Arabic

If you take a jinni or a swan-maiden you can go from Cairo to Bokhara in less time than our best expresses could cover a mile.

It was a keen-eared young Lur who first heard afar the pant of the mysterious jinni.

The building is the abode of jinni, and no one who goes in is ever able to come out by the same door.

Who does not sympathise with the Trader who killed the invisible son of the jinni?

Old Sheikh Sehel and his men stuck to it that they had constantly seen jinni, and their belief in them seems deeply rooted.

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