jinni

IPA: dʒˈɪni

noun

  • Alternative form of jinn [human-like beings, usually unseen by human eye, in opposition to al-ins]
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Examples of "jinni" in Sentences

  • The fisherman decided to trick the Jinni.
  • A jinni might also use possession for revenge.
  • So she start writing about Amma and jinni and exorcism.
  • He asked the Jinni how he managed to fit into the bottle.
  • The fisherman accepted the bargain, and released the Jinni.
  • The fisherman pleaded for his life, but the Jinni would not concede.
  • I — about the Prince and the Princess whose beauty set the fairy and the jinni disputing.
  • She told him the tale of a wealthy merchant who was taken captive by a vengeful jinni and condemned to die.
  • I comforted myself with the thought, rubbing the ring in the darkness, as though it contained a jinni that could advise me.
  • The record industry seems to think they can legislate the jinni back into the bottle, rather than adapting to new realities.
  • The merchant's cause is taken up by three old men, who cajole the jinni into postponing the execution until they tell their stories.
  • In Islam-associated mythology, the jinn were said to be controllable by magically binding them to objects, as Suleiman Solomon most famously did; the Spirit of the Lamp in the story of Aladdin was such a jinni, bound to an oil lamp.
  • Shahrazad gets to the end of the story of the merchant and the jinni on the third night of her marriage: The tales of the three old men are so marvelous that the jinni (setting a good ­example for King Shahriyar) sets the merchant free.

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