jinnia

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Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جِنِّيَّة (jinniyya), from جِنِّيّ (jinniyy, “jinn”) +‎ ـة (-a, feminine suffix).

Noun

jinnia (plural jinnias)

  1. A female jinn.
    • 1975, Abdelwanab Bouhdiba, Sexuality in Islam, page 69:
      A recent author maintains that it is lawful for a man to marry a djinnia, but not for a woman to be married to a djinn.
    • 2001, Gail Currie, Celia Rothenberg, Feminist Revisions of the Subject, page 154:
      This jinnia was Jewish, ugly, and desired Ibrahim to be her husband.
    • 2015 September 4, Ursula K Le Guin, “Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty‑Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie review – a modern Arabian Nights”, in The Guardian‎:
      We haven’t seen any jinn for a while because their passages into our world were sealed up about a thousand years ago, not long after the greatest jinnia princess, Dunia, had a love affair in Andalucia with the philosopher Ibn Rushd (also known as the great Aristotelian philosopher Averroes).
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