جن

Betekenis (Engels)

Verb

1. (transitive) to cover, to hide, to conceal, to veil
2. (transitive) to envelop, to enshroud, to cloak, to screen
3. (transitive) to descend, to fall, to become night

Noun

1. (collective) spiritual or otherwise unseen, undetectable, masked, or morphed beings that may be benevolent or helpful (agathodaemons, eudaemons), neutral, or malevolent (cacodemons); demonkind, jinn, genies
2. (collective) any mythical beings in general (such as fairies, satyrs, nymphs, elves, goblins, and sprites)
3. (collective, informal, singular) a genie, a jann, one of the jinn(s).

Noun

1. (form-of, noun-from-verb) verbal noun of جُنَّ (junna) (form I)
2. (form-of, noun-from-verb) verbal noun of جَنَّ (janna) (form I)

Sinonieme

جني

Vertalings

Gin

gin

gim

gin

cin

🧞

collect

Gin

Geist

demon

cover

djinn

garden

genie

🧞

Dschinn

conceal

Etimologie (Engels)

Compare Hebrew גָּנַן (gānán, “to defend, to cover”).