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- French · borrowed fromgénie“genius, genie”
- English todaygenie
From French génie (“genius, genie”), a phono-semantic matching of Arabic جِنِّيّ (jinniyy).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
genie
Today it means: A jinn, a being descended from the jann, normally invisible to the human eye, but who may also appear in animal or human form. Full definition →
French génie