جن

Etymology 1
Compare 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  to cover, to hide, to conceal, to veil
 * 2)  to envelop, to enshroud, to cloak, to screen
 * 3)  to descend, to fall, to become night
 * 4) * 11 Century CE, Wallada bint al-Mustakfi, ترقب إذا جن الظلام زيارتي
 * "ar"

- تَرَقَّبْ إِذَا جَنَّ الظَّلَامُ زِيَارَتِي / فَإِنِّي رَأَيْتُ اللَّيْلَ أَكْتَمَ لِلسِّرِّ

Etymology 2
Formally from the root, though most likely a , derived from 🇨🇬, or its emphatic form 🇨🇬 or 🇨🇬, also meaning "a tutelary deity" or "Astaroth idols". Compare.

Noun

 * 1)  spiritual or otherwise unseen, undetectable, masked, or morphed beings that may be benevolent or helpful (agathodaemons, eudaemons), neutral, or malevolent (cacodemons); jinn, genies, genii, demons.
 * 2)  any mythical beings in general (such as fairies, satyrs, nymphs, elves, goblins, and sprites)
 * 3)  a genie, a jann, one of the jinn(s).
 * 1)  a genie, a jann, one of the jinn(s).

Usage notes
In Arabian and Islamic mythology and demonology, the genies (alternatively referred to in English using the transliteration ), are conceptualized as a race that lives on earth alongside humans and beasts. Genies, like humans, are not deemed wholly evil or good, but they are said to possess powers that screen them from humankind, such as shapeshifting, which allows them to take up the form of animals (usually snakes and serpents) or even humans. Evil, godless, malicious, or otherwise harmful genies may influence the world indirectly (often through the works of human agents, such as sorcerers and witches) or directly (through the actions of the genies themselves). For example,, one of the companions of Muhammad, is said to have been supposedly assassinated by a genie who shot him with an arrow while he was urinating alone in the desert, and the second Caliph , as reported by in his Fayḍ al-Qadīr ("The Flow of the Ablest"), struck dead a  (a kind of ) with his sword, describing the creature as being "with a form like a human but with legs like those of a donkey". The are therefore not to be confused with the race of otherworldly creatures trapped in oil lamps as popularized in English, which, in Arabic, would be only a subtype of, like the  and the  and the chiefly Egyptian. For more information, see the Wikipedia article on.

The word is also sometimes indiscriminately used when translating the non-Arabic names of other mythological beings (especially fairies and elves). This, however, often creates much confusion, and so various Arabicized forms of the original denominations may be used to avoid this.

Etymology 3
Denominal verb from, leveled to the root.

Verb

 * 1)  to be possessed
 * 2)  to seem or act as if possessed, to be insane, to be crazy, to be mad, to be deranged
 * 3)  to be obsessed; to be infatuated

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) woman

Etymology 1
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Noun

 * 1) jinn, genie, demon, ghost

Etymology 2
From or cognate with, from (cognate with 🇨🇬, from , ultimately from.

Noun

 * 1) side
 * 2) way

Etymology
, from, ultimately from.

Noun

 * 1) people, populace; nation
 * 2) race, stock
 * 3) person, individual

Noun

 * 1) jinn
 * 2) demon