jinn

See also: Jinn

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Arabic جِنّ‎ (jinn) (collective form of جِنِّيّ‎ (jinniyy))

Noun

jinn (plural jinns or jinn)

(Muslim demonology) A spirit, lower than the angels, who could appear in animal or human form and influence men.
The evil jinn in charge of and associated with genital mutilation (both male and female), in every way, shape and form, will be gone.

Translations

spirit

Albanian: xhind (sq) m
Arabic: جِنِّيّ‎ m (jinniyy), جِنّ‎ m (jinn) (collective)
Armenian: ջին (hy) (ǰin)
Avar: жен (žen)
Azerbaijani: cin (az)
Bashkir: ен (yen)
Basque: irelu, jeinu
Belarusian: джын m (džyn)
Bengali: জ্বীন (jbīn)
Bulgarian: джин (bg) m (džin)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 精靈 (zh), 精灵 (zh) (jīnglíng), 神靈 (zh), 神灵 (zh) (shénlíng)
Czech: džin (cs) m
Dutch: djinn m or f
Estonian: džinn
Finnish: džinni (fi), djinni, jinni (fi)
French: jinn (fr) m, djinn (fr) m
Georgian: ჯინი (ka) (ǯini)
German: Dschinn (de) m
Greek: τζίνι (el) m (tzíni)
Hebrew: ג׳יני‎ m (jin)
Hindi: जीन (hi) m (jīn)
Hungarian: dzsinn (hu)
Ido: djin (io)
Italian: jinn m
Japanese: ジン (ja) (jin), 精霊 (ja) (せいれい, seirei)
Kazakh: жын (kk) (jın), жін (jin)
Korean: 진 (ko) (jin)
Kurdish:
Sorani: جنۆکه‌‎ (jinoka)

Kyrgyz: жин (ky) (cin)
Latvian: džins m
Lezgi: жин (žin)
Lithuanian: džinas m
Macedonian: џин m (džin)
Malay: jin
Nogai: йин (yin)
Pashto: جن‎ (ps) m (ǰen)
Persian: جن‎ (fa) (jenn, jen)
Polish: dżin (pl) m
Portuguese: génio (pt) m, gênio (pt) m (Brazil), jinn (pt) m
Russian: джинн (ru) m (džinn)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: џин m

Roman: džin (sh) m
Slovak: džin m
Slovene: džin m
Spanish: genio (es) m, jinn m, djinn m
Swedish: djinn (recommended spelling), jinn
Tajik: ҷин (jin)
Tatar: җен (tt) (cen)
Thai: ญิน (yin)
Turkish: cin (tr), çor (tr) (archaic Turkish)
Turkmen: jyn
Ukrainian: джин m (džyn)
Urdu: جن‎ m (jin)
Uyghur: جىن‎ (jin)
Uzbek: jin (uz)

Related terms

Portuguese

Noun

jinn m (plural jinns)

(Muslim demonology) jinn (spirit)

Synonyms

génio

Spanish

Noun

jinn m (plural jinns)

Alternative spelling of djinn

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