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Etymology
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From French génie (“genius, genie”), a phono-semantic matching of Arabic جِنّيّ (jinnī).
Pronunciation
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genie (plural genii or genies)
- (Islam) A jinn, a being descended from the jann, normally invisible to the human eye, but who may also appear in animal or human form.
- (mythology) A fictional magical being that is typically bound to obey the commands of a mortal possessing its container.
genie in a bottle
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an unseen being in Muslim theology
- Arabic: جَاْنّ (ar) (jānn) جِنّ pl (jinn), جِنَّة (ar) pl (jinna)
- Bulgarian: джин (bg) m (džin)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 神靈／神灵 (zh) (shénlíng), 神仙 (zh) (shénxiān), 巨靈／巨灵 (zh) (jùlíng), 鎮尼／镇尼 (zhènní)
- Czech: džin (cs) m
- French: jinn (fr) m, djinn (fr) m, génie (fr) m
- Georgian: ჯინი (ka) (ǯini), სული (ka) (suli)
- German: Dschinn (de) m, Djinn m
- Greek: τζίνι (el) m (tzíni), δαιμόνιο (el) n (daimónio)
- Ancient: δαιμόνιον n (daimónion)
- Hebrew: ג'יני (jini)
- Hindi: जिन्न (hi) m (jinn), जिन (hi) m (jin), जिन्द (hi) m (jind)
- Hungarian: dzsinn (hu)
- Japanese: 精霊 (ja) (せいれい, seirei, しょうりょう, shōryō), ジン (ja) (jin)
- Korean: 지니 (jini)
- Latin: daemonium genius
- Malay: jin
- Mwani: jini
- Persian: جن (fa) (jenn)
- Polish: dżinn (pl) m
- Portuguese: gênio (pt) m
- Romanian: geniu (ro) n
- Russian: джинн (ru) m (džinn), дух (ru) m (dux)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: џин m, дух m
- Roman: džin (sh) m, duh (sh) m
- Spanish: genio (es) m
- Swahili: jini (sw)
- Translingual: 🧞, 🧞♀️
- Turkish: cin (tr), çor (tr) (archaic Turkish)
- Urdu: جن
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a fictional magical being
- Albanian: xhind (sq) m
- Arabic: جِنّ pl (jinn), جِنِّيّ m (jinniyy)
- Azerbaijani: cin (az)
- Bashkir: ен (yen)
- Belarusian: джын m (džyn)
- Bengali: জ্বীন (jin)
- Bulgarian: джин (bg) m (džin)
- Catalan: geni (ca) m or f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 神靈／神灵 (zh) (shénlíng), 神仙 (zh) (shénxiān), 巨靈／巨灵 (zh) (jùlíng)
- Czech: džin (cs) m
- Finnish: henki (fi)
- French: génie (fr) m, djinn (fr) m
- Georgian: ჯინი (ka) (ǯini)
- German: Dschinn (de) m, Djinn m
- Hebrew: ג'יני (jini)
- Hindi: जिन्न (hi) m (jinn), जिन (hi) m (jin), जिन्द (hi) m (jind)
- Hungarian: dzsinn (hu)
- Italian: genio (it) m
- Japanese: 精霊 (ja) (せいれい, seirei, しょうりょう, shōryō), ジン (ja) (jin)
- Kazakh: жын (jyn), жін (jın)
- Kyrgyz: жин (ky) (jin)
- Macedonian: џин m (džin)
- Malay: jin
- Maori: ariā
- Mwani: jini
- Pashto: جن (ps) m (ǰen)
- Persian: جن (fa) (jenn)
- Polish: dżinn (pl) m
- Portuguese: gênio (pt) m
- Russian: джинн (ru) m (džinn), дух (ru) m (dux)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: џин m, дух m
- Roman: džin (sh) m, duh (sh) m
- Spanish: genio (es) m
- Swahili: jini (sw)
- Swedish: ande (sv) c
- Tajik: ҷин (jin)
- Tatar: җен (tt) (cen)
- Thai: ญิน (yin)
- Translingual: 🧞, 🧞♀️
- Turkish: cin (tr), çor (tr) (archaic Turkish)
- Turkmen: jyn
- Ukrainian: джин m (džyn)
- Urdu: جن m (jin)
- Uyghur: جىن (jin)
- Uzbek: jin (uz)
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