jinn

See also: Jinn

English

Alternative forms

• genie, ginn, djinn, djinni, djinny, jinnee, jinni, jin

Etymology

From Arabic جِنّ (jinn, collective noun) (singular جِنِّيّ (jinniyy)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɪn/
• Rhymes: -ɪn
• Homophone: gin

Noun

jinn (plural jinns or jinn or jawan or jinnan or jinnah)

1. (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.
2. 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.

Synonyms

• jann, jinni, genie

Translations

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 (bn) (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, fantomo
• 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 (mk) m (džin)
• Malay: jin
• Maltese: ġinn m
• Nogai: йин (yin)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: djinn m

• 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)

See also

• angel
• ghoul
• ifrit
• jann
• nasnas
• shaitan

Portuguese

Noun

jinn m (plural jinns)

1. (Islam) jinn (spirit)

   Synonym: génio

Spanish

Noun

jinn m (plural jinns)

1. Alternative spelling of djinn