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jann|dʒɑːn|
Also jan.
[a. Arab. jānn demon.]
= jinn n.
1777J. Richardson Dict. Persian, Arabic & Eng. I. 667 That race of creatures called by the Arabians Jan or Jinn. 1891E. S. Hartland Sci. Fairy Tales x. 256 Hasan is favoured with the sight of ‘ten virgins’... He fell madly in love with the chief damsel, who turns out to be a daughter of a King of the Jann. 1931A. Wilson in E. S. Stevens Folk Tales Iraq p. xiv, Stories in which jānn, or fairy-folk, don at will the appearance of birds. |