jinnia

English

Alternative forms

• djinnia, jinniyah, jinniyya

Etymology

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

Noun

jinnia (plural jinnias)

1. A female jinn.
   • 1975, Abdelwanab Bouhdiba, Sexuality in Islam, page 69:

     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.

   • 2001, Gail Currie, Celia Rothenberg, Feminist Revisions of the Subject, page 154:

     This jinnia was Jewish, ugly, and desired Ibrahim to be her husband.

   • 2015 September 4, Ursula K Le Guin, “Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty‑Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie review – a modern Arabian Nights”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     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).