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ˈdʒi nige·nie

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. genie, jinni, jinnee, djinni, djinny, djinnnoun

    (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

GCIDE

  1. genienoun

    (Islamic mythology) Same as jinnee.

  2. genienoun

    (Fairy tales) A fabulous spirit having special powers, often appearing in human form, which, when summoned by a person, is required to perform the commands of the summoner. It is based on the mythological jinnee; the prototype is the genie residing in an oil lamp, summoned by Aladdin.

Wiktionary

  1. genienoun

    An invisible spirit mentioned in the Qur'an and believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals.

  2. genienoun

    A fictional magical being that is typically bound to obey the commands of a mortal possessing its container.

  3. Etymology: From génie

Wikipedia

  1. Genie

    Jinn (Arabic: جن‎, jinn) – also romanized as djinn or anglicized as genies – are invisible creatures in early pre-Islamic Arabian religious systems and later in Islamic mythology and theology. Like humans, they are accountable for their deeds, can be either believers (Muslim) or unbelievers (kafir); depending on whether they accept God's guidance. Since jinn are neither innately evil nor innately good, Islam acknowledged spirits from other religions and was able to adapt them during its expansion. Jinn are not a strictly Islamic concept; they may represent several pagan beliefs integrated into Islam. To assert a strict monotheism and the Islamic concept of Tauhid, Islam denies all affinities between the jinn and God, thus placing the jinn parallel to humans, also subject to God's judgment and afterlife. The Quran condemns the pre-Islamic Arabian practise of worshipping the jinn, or seeking protection from them.Although generally invisible, jinn are supposed to be composed of thin and subtle bodies (ad̲j̲sām), they can change at will. They favour snake form, but can also choose to appear as scorpions, lizards or as humans. They may even engage in sexual affairs with humans and produce offspring. If they are injured by someone, they usually seek revenge or possess the assailant's body, refusing to leave it until forced to do so by exorcism. Jinn do not usually meddle in human affairs, preferring to live with their own kind in tribes similar to those of pre-Islamic Arabia. Individual jinn appear on charms and talismans. They are called upon for protection or magical aid, often under the leadership of a king. Many people who believe in jinn wear amulets to protect themselves against the assaults of jinn, sent out by sorcerers and witches. A commonly-held belief maintains that jinn cannot hurt someone who wears something with the name of God (Allah) written upon it. While some Muslim scholars in the past have had ambivalent attitudes towards sorcery, believing that good jinn do not require one to commit sin, most contemporary Muslim scholars associate dealing with jinn with idolatry.

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  1. genie

    A genie, also known as a jinn or djinn, is a supernatural creature often described in Middle Eastern and Islamic mythology and folklore. They are typically depicted as powerful beings that can grant wishes or carry out tasks for those who summon or control them, usually by magical means. The concept of genies has been popularized globally through various forms of media, notably the character of the Genie in the "Aladdin" folklore and its adaptations. However, genies in traditional myths and tales can have complex personalities and moralities, and are not always beneficent.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Genienoun

    see Genius

  2. Etymology: [F.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Genie

    jē′ni, n. a jinnee. [Fr. génie—L. genius.]

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Genie in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Genie in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Genie in a Sentence

  1. Manjusha Kulkarni:

    When you encourage hate, it’s not like a genie in a bottle where you can pull it out and push it back in whenever you want, there’s too much perpetuating these belief systems to make them go away.

  2. Peter Hotez:

    It is hard to try to put the genie back in the bottle once you have an epidemic. if you have measles, coronavirus, plus the flu, it's hard to fight that.

  3. John Hickenlooper:

    Trust me, if the data was coming back and we saw spikes in violent crime, we saw spikes in overall crime, there would be a lot of people looking for that bottle and figuring out how we get the genie back in, it doesn't seem likely to me, but I'm not ruling it out.

  4. Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers:

    My guess is that inflation will be lower next year than it was this year and quite likely will be lower in 2024 than in 2023. But I think is not going to be easy to bring inflation back to the kind of levels we have been accustomed to in recent decades, we have let the genie out of the bottle.

  5. Brad Moss:

    You can't put the genie back in the bottle.

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