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Jinni

Jinnee \Jin"nee\, Jinni \Jin"ni\(j[i^]n"n[=e]), n.; pl. Jinn (j[i^]n). [Ar.] (Arabian & Mohammedan Myth.) A genius or demon; one of the fabled genii, good and evil spirits, supposed to be the children of fire, and to have the power of assuming various forms. [Written also jin, djinn, djinnee, genie, etc.]

Note: Jinn is also used as sing., with pl. jinns.

Wiktionary
jinni

n. (alternative form of jinn English)

WordNet
jinni
  1. n. (Islam) an invisible spirit mentioned in the Koran and believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals [syn: genie, jinnee, djinni, djinny]

  2. [also: jinn (pl)]

Wikipedia
Jinni (search engine)

Jinni was a search engine and recommendation engine for movies, TV shows and short films. The service was powered by the Entertainment Genome, an approach to indexing titles based on attributes like mood, tone, plot, and structure. Its availability is now limited as an API, in business-to-business licensing, where it impacts businesses like Comcast's Xfinity product (and others whose capabilities benefit from smart entertainment search).

Jinni (disambiguation)

A jinni or genie is a spirit mentioned in Islamic theology.

Jinni may also refer to:

Usage examples of "jinni".

Gatti Jinni usually runs things in his absence, but Gatti Jinni gets drunk one night in the month, without any particular pattern or regularity to it.

On the threshold she collided with Gatti Jinni, who went over on his back like a beetle.

Drunkenness to me was dragging Gatti Jinni up to his sad garret once a month, or watching Karsh wearily facing down some grinning bargeman with a meat-knife in one hand and a broken bottleneck in the other, with two farmers bleeding and vomiting on the floor.

The dogs were all barking madly, swirling around his ankles, and Gatti Jinni was shouting at them from a window.

So he buzzed and chuckled while I strained to carry the old man as far as the inn door, where Gatti Jinni stood blinking slack-mouthed.

He pushed Gatti Jinni aside and stood scowling as we danced the poor creature along like a cumbersome piece of furniture.

He called for Gatti Jinni to come and help us, but Gatti Jinni had faded away into one of the musty places he knew.

I expected to see Karsh, but it was only Gatti Jinni, who had already begun backing away before I opened the door.

He was gone, vanished, while my shout for Gatti Jinni was still echoing, but I know I saw him.

Gatti Jinni and Shadry, who saw it all, were still laughing that evening, and my feet were still hurting.

Gatti Jinni will talk all day, keep the red ale coming, but what does little angry-face know?

We could hear the hogs snuffling in their pen, and Gatti Jinni shouting across the courtyard.

Gatti Jinni could have read that face, and that anxious way he was developing of looking quickly around him at odd moments, just as though he were sneaking off to bother Marinesha and heard me shouting for him.

Why did Gatti Jinni throw a wine bottle at that street-singer yesterday?

We did not speak until we were close enough to the inn to hear cocks crowing, the outside pump squeaking, and Gatti Jinni wailing to heaven about something or other.