ifritah

plural ifritahs

1. Arab mythologyA female ifrit.

   Then the Ifritah spiralled high into the firmament as was her custom and there met a Djinn on the wing[.]

   2005, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Pashazade: The First Arabesk, page 30

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   So he raised him up from the ground and flew with him like a bird soaring in upper air, the Ifritah keeping close by his side[.]

   1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 214

   Aimery stopped goggling at the spectacle of the ifritah sitting with nothing between herself and the floor but a yard's worth of air[.]

   1991, Judith Tarr, The Dagger and the Cross, page 368