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djin

[jin]
noun, plural djins, (especially collectively) djin. Islam.
  1. jinn.
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Also djinn, djin·ni [jin-ee] /ˈdʒɪn i/.
Can be confuseddjin djinn gin jin
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Historical Examples

  • Blank verse is like the Djin in the Arabian Nights; it is either the most terrible of masters, or the most powerful of slaves.

    Books and Characters

    Lytton Strachey

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

  • 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.

    Morocco

    S.L. Bensusan

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

    The Treasury of Ancient Egypt

    Arthur E. P. B. Weigall

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