Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

jinnia

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: jin-nia
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Example Sentences

"A recent author maintains that it is lawful for a man to marry a djinnia, but not for a woman to be married to a djinn."
"This jinnia was Jewish, ugly, and desired Ibrahim to be her husband."
"We haven’t seen any jinn for a while because their passages into our world were sealed up about a thousand years ago, not long after the greatest jinnia princess, Dunia, had a love affair in Andalucia with the philosopher Ibn Rushd (also known as the great Aristotelian philosopher Averroes)."

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جِنِّيَّة (jinniyya), from جِنِّيّ (jinniyy, “jinn”) + ـة (-a, feminine suffix).

Word Breakdown

Root: ج ن ن

Inflected Forms

jinnias (plural) djinnia (alternative) jinniyah (alternative) jinniyya (alternative)

Questions

What does jinnia mean?: A female jinn.
Where does jinnia come from?: Borrowed from Arabic جِنِّيَّة (jinniyya), from جِنِّيّ (jinniyy, “jinn”) + ـة (-a, feminine suffix).

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