private mansion in India and Pakistan. 1993, William Dalrymple, City of Djinns, Penguin, published 2004, page 55: The haveli was a world within a world...
(plural yinn) jinn, djinn 2015 September 27, “Salman Rushdie, la eterna polémica”, in El País[1]: Hay mucho del propio Rushdie en el señor Gerónimo, obligado...
See also: Genie, génie, Génie, and -génie jinn, djinn, djinni, djinny, jinni, jinnie, jinnee From French génie (“genius, genie”), a phono-semantic matching...
whether he thought this was due to the climate, the diet, or simply malefic djinns. malefic (plural malefics) (astrology) a malefic planet 2017, Chris Brennan...
Doublet of Genoa and Geneva and distantly related to knee. enPR: jēn, IPA(key): /d͡ʒiːn/ (obsolete) enPR: jān, IPA(key): /d͡ʒeɪn/ Rhymes: -iːn Homophones: gene...
the conjuring of all sorts of inhuman spirits such as sylphs, giants, and djinn. The elemental being of air, usually female. (by extension) A slender woman...
identified with mucus. [from 13th c.] 1993, William Dalrymple, City of Djinns, HarperCollins: Each person's unique mixture of these substances determines...
/ʃajˈtɐ̃/ [ʃaɪ̯ˈtɐ̃] (Portugal) IPA(key): /ʃajˈtan/ Hyphenation: shai‧tan shaitan m (plural shaitans) (Arab mythology) shaitan (an evil djinn or devil)...
(“juniper”). Hence gin rummy (first attested 1941). enPR: jĭn, IPA(key): /d͡ʒɪn/ Rhymes: -ɪn Homophone: djinn English Wikipedia has an article on: gin Wikipedia...
course if he had chosen to turn his ring on his finger and call up the Djinns and the Afrits they would have magicked all those nine hundred and ninety-nine...