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Etymology
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From Arabic جِنّ (jinn, collective noun) (singular جِنِّيّ (jinniyy))
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jinn (plural jinns or jinn or jawan or jinnan or jinnah)
- (Arabic culture) A human-like spiritual or immaterial being, as opposed to al-ins (people), often invisible but able to manifest in form and also inhabit people or animals; origin of the genie of Western literature, film etc.
- Such beings collectively.
1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 8:There not only jewels but also dangerous jinn abide: the inconvenient or resisted psychological powers that we have not thought or dared to integrate into our lives.
2020, Abu-Hamdiyyah, Muhammad, The Qur'an: an introduction, Routledge, page 101:Surah 18:50: 'And We told the Angels "prostrate yourselves before Adam". So they all prostrated themselves, except Iblees who was one of the jinn.
2020, Abu-Hamdiyyah, Muhammad, The Qur'an: an introduction, Routledge, page 101:The second context in which jinn occurs in the Qur'an is where we find both ins and jinn are mentioned together. Ins is a collective noun signifying humans, recognisable familiar human beings.
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spirit
- Albanian: xhind (sq) m
- Arabic: جَاْنّ (ar) (jānn), جِنّ (jinn) (collective)
- Aramaic: ܓܢܝܐ m (ginnaya)
- Armenian: ջին (hy) (ǰin)
- Avar: жен (žen)
- Azerbaijani: cin (az)
- Bashkir: ен (yen)
- Basque: irelu, jeinu
- Belarusian: джын m (džyn)
- Bengali: জিন (jin)
- Bulgarian: джин (bg) m (džin)
- Chinese:
- Dungan: җин (žin)
- Mandarin: 精靈／精灵 (zh) (jīnglíng), 神靈／神灵 (zh) (shénlíng), 鎮尼／镇尼 (zhènní)
- Czech: džin (cs) m
- Dhivehi: ޖިންނި (jin̊ni)
- Dutch: djinn (nl) m or f
- Esperanto: ĝino
- Estonian: džinn (et)
- 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 (jini)
- Hindi: जिन्न (hi) m (jinn), जिन (hi) m (jin), जिन्द (hi) m (jind)
- Hungarian: dzsinn (hu)
- Ido: djin (io)
- Italian: jinn m
- Japanese: ジン (ja) (jin), 精霊 (ja) (せいれい, seirei)
- Kazakh: жын (jyn), жін (jın)
- Korean: 진 (ko) (jin)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: (please verify) جِنۆکە (ckb) (cinoke)
- Northern Kurdish: cin (ku)
- Kyrgyz: жин (ky) (jin)
- Latvian: džins (lv) m
- Lezgi: жин (žin)
- Lithuanian: džinas m
- Macedonian: џин m (džin)
- Malay: jin
- Maltese: ġinn m
- 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
- Rohingya: jin
- Russian: джинн (ru) m (džinn)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: џи̏н m
- Roman: džȉn (sh) m
- Slovak: džin m
- Slovene: džin m
- Spanish: genio (es) m, jinn m, djinn m
- Swedish: djinn (recommended spelling), jinn (sv)
- 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)
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Portuguese
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jinn m (plural jinns)
- Alternative spelling of djinn
