afreet
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of afreet
1795–1805; < dialectal Arabic ʿafrīt < Pahlavi āfrītan creature
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
He moved along the echoless floors with a slow, noiseless shamble, until his dusky figure, advancing from the gloom, seemed like some reluctant afreet, compelled by the superior power of his master to disclose himself.
From Masterpieces of Mystery Riddle Stories by French, Joseph Lewis
"It is I, your master, not an afreet."
From Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales by Haggard, Henry Rider
The clothes he was clad in Proclaimed him an Arab at sight, And he had for a chum An uncommonly rum Old afreet, six cubits in height.
From Grimm Tales Made Gay by Levering, Albert
My bills were deposited by unseen hands every month on my table, while I was out walking or riding, and my pecuniary response was intrusted to the attendant afreet.
From Masterpieces of Mystery Riddle Stories by French, Joseph Lewis
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
