- 1鎮尼、精靈（阿拉伯傳說裡的神靈，不是花仙子）
A jinn is a spirit from Arabic and Muslim stories — the kind English often calls a genie. In the old tales they are not only the friendly wish-givers from children's films. They are beings of smokeless fire, some kind, some dangerous, living in a world beside ours. In Arabic, jinn is the word for them as a group; one is a jinni. English speakers still say a jinn quite often, and you may also see the spelling . When English stories say genie, they usually mean this same kind of being, especially the one in a lamp — though actually that English word came in through French, and the film version is tidier and sweeter than the old stories.
組成From Arabic جِنّ (jinn), a group word; the singular is جِنِّيّ (jinniyy).
同家族的字
- jinnithe older English singular of the same Arabic word
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
jinnnoun/d͡ʒɪn/
- 1
A human-like spiritual or immaterial being, as opposed to al-ins (people), often invisible but able to manifest in form and also inhabit people or animals; origin of the genie of Western literature, film etc.
- Even the sad jinn within the graven image slept[.]
- There not only jewels but also dangerous jinn abide: the inconvenient or resisted psychological powers that we have not thought or dared to integrate into our lives.
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