ifrit

plural ifrits · alternative 'ifrit · alternative ʿifrīt · alternative 'ifriit · alternative ʿefrīt · alternative ʿefrēt · alternative 'afreet · alternative 'afret · alternative 'afreit · alternative 'afrit · alternative 'afriit · alternative 'efreet · alternative 'efret · alternative efreit · alternative 'efriit · alternative 'efrit

1. IslamA kind of djinn mentioned in the Qur'an.
2. Arab mythologyA demon, evil spirit, often associated with the underworld.

   “In that stone, Paguta has contained a powerful ifrit, but it can only be summoned once every hundred years.”

   2016 July 11, Kyle More, “TripTank 2025” (9:02 from the start), in TripTank, season 2, episode 14, spoken by Clarine (Lauren Lapkus)

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   Then she flew firmament-wards to circle it, as was her custom, and met an Ifrit on the wing who saluted her and she said to him, "Whence comest thou?"

   1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXI, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 211

3. A species of passerine bird endemic to New Guinea, in full the blue-capped ifrit.