jinni

Other forms of jinni

plural

jinn

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about jinni

What does jinni mean?

jinni means "(Islam) an invisible spirit mentioned in the Koran and believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals".

How many syllables are in jinni?

jinni has 2 syllables and divides as jin-ni under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for jinni?

Close synonyms include genie, jinnee, djinni, djinny, djinn. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is jinni a common word?

jinni is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.