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plural janns or jinnan or jawan or jinn or jinnah or genies or genii
(Islam) The father of the jinn preceeding humanity. quotations examples
وقد كان فيها قبل أن يخلق بألفي عام الجن بنو الجان، ففسدوا في الأرض.Two thousand years before [Adam] He [God] created the jinn, the sons of al-Jann, on earth, and they spread corruption and shed blood therein.
1445-1505, Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī, Al-Dur al-Manthur, page Surah 2:30
(rare) One of the jinn; a genie.