jinn
吉恩,精灵,晋人,神仙
Definitions
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plural jinns, jinn.Islamic Mythology.
- : any of a class of spirits, lower than the angels, capable of appearing in human and animal forms and influencing humankind for either good or evil.
Examples
“I am on the jinn side myself,” he says, claiming that mental illnesses can have both supernatural and social causes.
Will University of Tehran political science students be obliged to game out strategies against a jinn?
Morgiana threw back her black hair, and laughed as would an invulnerable jinn.
The words genius and genie are evidently cognate with the Arabian jinn, meaning a spirit.
When his sister-in-law with an army of Jinn pursues the fugitives, the subjects of the rod overcome her.
Didst thou not assure me that I was free to wander where I would, since there was no longer any that had authority over the Jinn!
As a sort of inferior and obedient jinn, supplied by Providence and invoked by a gesture to fetch and to carry at need.