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variants:
or jinn also djinni or djinn
Synonyms of jinni
as in genie, angel
Synonyms & Near Synonyms for jinni
- apparition,
- bogey
- (also bogie or bogy),
- familiar spirit,
- ghost,
- hant
- [dialect],
- haunt
- [chiefly dialect],
- materialization,
- phantasm
- (also fantasm),
- phantom,
- poltergeist,
- shade,
- shadow,
- specter
- (or spectre),
- spirit,
- spook,
- sprite,
- vision,
- visitant,
- wraith
- doppelgänger
- (or doppelganger),
- double,
- fetch
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The first known use of jinni was in 1684
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