jinniyah

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A form of jinnia — A female jinn.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

nounjinniyah (plural jinniyahs)

plural jinniyahs

  1. alternativeAlternative form of jinnia.
    1 more example

    [W]hen the Jinni narrated to the Jinniyah how the King had caused the wedding contract to be drawn up between the hunchbacked groom and the lovely young lady who was heart-broken for sorrow; and how she was the fairest of created things and even more beautiful than this youth, the Jinniyah cried at him "Thou liest! this youth is handsomer than any one of his day."

    1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “[The Tale of the Three Apples.] Tale of Núr al-Dín Alí & his Son Badr al-Dín Hasan. [Night 22.]”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume I, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC, pages 213–214
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