genie

See also: Genie, génie, Génie, and -génie

English

Alternative forms

• jinn, djinn, djinni, djinny, jinni, jinnie, jinnee

Etymology

From French génie (“genius, genie”), a phono-semantic matching of Arabic جِنِّيّ (jinniyy).

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒiː.ni/
• Rhymes: -iːni

Noun

genie (plural genii or genies)

1. (Islam) A jinn, a being descended from the jann, normally invisible to the human eye, but who may also appear in animal or human form.
2. (mythology) A fictional magical being that is typically bound to obey the commands of a mortal possessing its container.

   genie in a bottle

Derived terms

• put the genie back in the bottle
• the genie is out of the bottle

 

Translations

an unseen being in Muslim theology

• Arabic: جَاْنّ (ar) (jānn) جِنّ pl (jinn), جِنَّة (ar) pl (jinna)
• Bulgarian: джин (bg) m (džin)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 神靈／神灵 (zh) (shénlíng), 神仙 (zh) (shénxiān), 巨靈／巨灵 (zh) (jùlíng), 鎮尼／镇尼 (zhènní)

• Czech: džin (cs) m
• French: jinn (fr) m, djinn (fr) m, génie (fr) m
• Georgian: ჯინი (ka) (ǯini), სული (ka) (suli)
• German: Dschinn (de) m, Djinn m
• Greek: τζίνι (el) m (tzíni), δαιμόνιο (el) n (daimónio)

  Ancient: δαιμόνιον n (daimónion)

• Hebrew: ג'יני (jini)
• Hindi: जिन्न (hi) m (jinn), जिन (hi) m (jin), जिन्द (hi) m (jind)
• Hungarian: dzsinn (hu)
• Japanese: 精霊 (ja) (せいれい, seirei, しょうりょう, shōryō), ジン (ja) (jin)
• Korean: 지니 (jini)
• Latin: daemonium genius
• Malay: jin
• Mwani: jini
• Persian: جن (fa) (jenn)
• Polish: dżinn (pl) m
• Portuguese: gênio (pt) m, génio (pt) m
• Romanian: geniu (ro) n
• Russian: джинн (ru) m (džinn), дух (ru) m (dux)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: џин m, дух m

  Roman: džin (sh) m, duh (sh) m

• Spanish: genio (es) m
• Swahili: jini (sw)
• Translingual: 🧞, 🧞‍♀️
• Turkish: cin (tr), çor (tr) (archaic Turkish)
• Urdu: جن

a fictional magical being

• Albanian: xhind (sq) m
• Arabic: جِنّ pl (jinn), جِنِّيّ m (jinniyy)
• Azerbaijani: cin (az)
• Bashkir: ен (yen)
• Belarusian: джын m (džyn)
• Bengali: জ্বীন (jin)
• Bulgarian: джин (bg) m (džin)
• Catalan: geni (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 神靈／神灵 (zh) (shénlíng), 神仙 (zh) (shénxiān), 巨靈／巨灵 (zh) (jùlíng)

• Czech: džin (cs) m
• Esperanto: ĝino
• Finnish: henki (fi)
• French: génie (fr) m, djinn (fr) m
• Georgian: ჯინი (ka) (ǯini)
• German: Dschinn (de) m, Djinn m
• Hebrew: ג'יני (jini)
• Hindi: जिन्न (hi) m (jinn), जिन (hi) m (jin), जिन्द (hi) m (jind)
• Hungarian: dzsinn (hu)
• Italian: genio (it) m
• Japanese: 精霊 (ja) (せいれい, seirei, しょうりょう, shōryō), ジン (ja) (jin)
• Kazakh: жын (jyn), жін (jın)
• Kyrgyz: жин (ky) (jin)
• Macedonian: џин (mk) m (džin)
• Malay: jin
• Maori: ariā
• Mwani: jini
• Pashto: جن (ps) m (ǰen)
• Persian: جن (fa) (jenn)
• Polish: dżinn (pl) m
• Portuguese: gênio (pt) m
• Russian: джинн (ru) m (džinn), дух (ru) m (dux)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: џин m, дух m

  Roman: džin (sh) m, duh (sh) m

• Spanish: genio (es) m
• Swahili: jini (sw)
• Swedish: ande (sv) c
• Tajik: ҷин (jin)
• Tatar: җен (tt) (cen)
• Thai: ญิน (yin)
• Translingual: 🧞, 🧞‍♀️
• Turkish: cin (tr), çor (tr) (archaic Turkish)
• Turkmen: jyn
• Ukrainian: джин m (džyn)
• Urdu: جن m (jin)
• Uyghur: جىن (jin)
• Uzbek: jin (uz)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Albanian: xhind (sq)
• Indonesian: jin (id)
• Swahili: kijini
• Swedish: djinn, ande (sv), geni (sv), demon (sv), skyddsande (sv)
• Tagalog: jini
• Turkish: cin (tr), cinler (tr)

See also

• 🧞‍♂️, 🧞‍♀️
• jann
• nasnas
• ghoul
• shaitan
• angel
• jinx

Further reading

• jinn on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• eigen-, eigne

Dutch

Etymology

From French génie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒeːˈni/, /ʒəˈni/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ge‧nie
• Rhymes: -i

Noun

genie n (plural genieën, diminutive genietje n)

1. (uncountable) genius, mental brilliance
2. (countable) a genius, exceptionally gifted person

Related terms

• geniaal

Noun

genie f (uncountable)

1. military engineers (technical corps)

Derived terms

• geniesoldaat
• genietroepen

Descendants

• → Indonesian: zeni
• >? Javanese: ꦱꦼꦤꦶ (seni)
• >? Malay: seni
  • Indonesian: sêni

Italian

Noun

genie f

1. plural of genia

Anagrams

• egeni, ignee

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɛ.ɲɛ/
• Rhymes: -ɛɲɛ
• Syllabification: ge‧nie

Noun

genie m

1. locative singular of gen