Synonyms of jinni

jinni

noun

variants or jinn also djinni or djinn

as in genie

Related Words

• genie
• angel
• daimon
• wraith
• familiar
• phantom
• shaitan
• poltergeist
• specter
• materialization
• spirit
• apparition
• phantasm
• sprite
• familiar spirit
• genius
• ghost
• double
• bogey
• fetch
• visitant
• vision
• doppelgänger
• spook
• vampire
• hant
• shade
• haunt
• succubus
• incubus
• shadow
• demon
• manes
• zombie
• lamia
• lemures
• ghoul
• imp
• devil
• cacodemon
• fiend

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of jinni

But as the djinn becomes embodied, the delicate balance between the real and the supernatural starts to falter. — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 18 June 2026

In the centuries-old Cape Town Muslim community of my childhood, none of this was particularly unusual; older people spoke freely about ghosts or jinn, counseling us to take precautions of prayers, salt, incense, to limit our interaction with them. — Literary Hub, 10 Dec. 2025

By the time Laras is making like Linda Blair, malicious jinn power resisting that of Almighty Allah, the film has already gone down a familiar path of grotesque makeup, stunts and digital FX. — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 6 Aug. 2025

Poltergeists, jinn, and the Ghost of Christmas Past all count as metaphysical entities. — Big Think, 13 Dec. 2024

The jinni has kept the woman locked in a glass chest, deep in the sea, but that hasn’t stopped her from sleeping with ninety-eight other men. — Yasmine Al-Sayyad, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022

Traditionally, jinn aren't seen as good or evil, and that moral ambiguity carries over to the series. — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 23 June 2019

Next to me was Said Suleiman Mohammed, herbalist and jinni hunter. — Justin Fornal, National Geographic, 29 Jan. 2016

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