jinn

American  

[jin] / dʒɪn /

Also jinni

noun

Islamic Mythology.

plural

jinns,

plural

jinn

1. any of a class of spirits, lower than the angels, capable of appearing in human and animal forms and influencing humankind for either good or evil.

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jinn British  

/ dʒɪn /

noun

1. (often functioning as singular) the plural of jinni

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Etymology

Origin of jinn

1675–85; plural of Arabic jinnī demon

Example Sentences

It is mostly women who visit healers - believing that they can solve problems and cure illness by expelling evil spirits known as "jinn".

From BBC • Aug. 7, 2023

“The jinn was instructing him to behave in that alleged behavior,” the psychiatrist added.

From Seattle Times • May 2, 2019

She has a cinematic, out-of-body, approach to songwriting; Eilish imagines herself as a sneaky jinn or a bored wallflower and then writes what she sees.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 26, 2019

"There has to be a tipping point. You can't put the jinn back in the bottle. All of us have either kept quiet out of fear or shame or complicity, but now we can't."

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2017

“Long ago,” she says, “when man knew not greed, malice, tribe, nor clan, jinn walked the earth.”

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir