jinnia

plural jinnias · alternative djinnia · alternative jinniyah · alternative jinniyya

1. A female jinn.

   This jinnia was Jewish, ugly, and desired Ibrahim to be her husband.

   2001, Gail Currie, Celia Rothenberg, Feminist Revisions of the Subject, page 154

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   A recent author maintains that it is lawful for a man to marry a djinnia, but not for a woman to be married to a djinn.

   1975, Abdelwanab Bouhdiba, Sexuality in Islam, page 69

   We haven’t seen any jinn for a while because their passages into our world were sealed up about a thousand years ago, not long after the greatest jinnia princess, Dunia, had a love affair in Andalucia with the philosopher Ibn Rushd (also known as the great Aristotelian philosopher Averroes).

   2015 September 4, Ursula K Le Guin, “Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty‑Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie review – a modern Arabian Nights”, in The Guardian