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djin

[ jin ]

noun

, Islam.
, plural djins, (especially collectively) djin.


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Example Sentences

Among these was poor Ain ed Djin, who sat down and took the enormous head of his pet on his knees till it had ceased to breathe.

If in the raw morning hours a donkey brays, the men are very much perturbed, for they know that the poor beast has seen a djin.

The Bedouins have a legend of the terrible Djin, who are doomed to everlasting imprisonment in the stony Hammada.

My djin had fastened his little cart under a tree, and together we climbed the steep path on the slippery red soil.

The djin, however, was not thus to be propitiated, and the gold of the Pharaohs was never found.

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