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See also: Ifrit
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪˈfɹiːt/
- (nonstandard, spelling pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɪf.ɹɪt/
Noun
ifrit (plural ifrits)
- (Islam) A kind of djinn mentioned in the Qur'an.
- (Arab mythology) A demon, evil spirit, often associated with the underworld.
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXI, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 211:
- Then she flew firmament-wards to circle it, as was her custom, and met an Ifrit on the wing who saluted her and she said to him, "Whence comest thou?"
- 2016 July 11, Kyle More, “TripTank 2025” (9:02 from the start), in TripTank, season 2, episode 14, spoken by Clarine (Lauren Lapkus):
- “In that stone, Paguta has contained a powerful ifrit, but it can only be summoned once every hundred years.”
- A species of passerine bird endemic to New Guinea, in full the blue-capped ifrit.
Descendants
- → Japanese: イフリート (ifurīto)
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Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
ifrit
- (Islamic mythology) ifrit
Declension
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Indonesian
Etymology
Inherited from Malay ifrit, from Classical Malay ifrit, from Arabic عِفْرِيت (ʕifrīt).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈifrit/ [ˈif.rɪt̪̚]
- Rhymes: -ifrit
- Syllabification: if‧rit
Noun
Further reading
- “ifrit”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
Malay
Etymology
Noun
ifrit (Jawi spelling عفريت, plural ifrit-ifrit or ifrit2)
- (Islamic mythology) ifrit
Descendants
- Indonesian: ifrit
Norwegian
Etymology
Noun
ifrit
- (Islamic mythology) ifrit
Polish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
ifrit m animal
Declension
Declension of ifrit
Further reading
- ifrit in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
ifrit m (plural ifrits)
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish عفریت, from Persian عِفْرِیت ('efrit), from Arabic عِفْرِيت (ʕifrīt).
Noun
ifrit (definite accusative ifridi, plural ifritler)
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