(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.
Veja mais 1 You could do this all day, and the jinnee never failed to hear and obey.
2 Madame said she liked to have him around, for he was more like some unobtrusive jinnee than a mere mortal.
3 Every month they drew lots, and he upon whom the lot fell gave up his daughter to the jinnee of the sea.
4 When the great jinnee of music had once more swept out of the hall, the Sphinx turned with shining eyes to the waiter:
5 Perhaps he has provoked a jinnee in that young man which will one day rise up and envelop him in a cloud of political suffocation.
6 Brown moved the lamp, and its beams fell on a rifleman who stood close beside him at attention-likea jinnee formed suddenly from empty blackness.
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