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jinn

Portuguese, noun

jinn is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “jinn (spirit)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “gênio, gênio da lâmpada”.

What does jinn mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinejinn (spirit)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. gênio, gênio da lâmpada 2. um espírito, abaixo dos anjos, que pode aparecer na forma animal ou humana e influenciar os homens

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of jinn

  • jinns plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to jinn

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is jinn in Portuguese?

jinn appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).