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English

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Alternative forms

  • 'ifrit, ʿifrīt, 'ifriit, ʿefrīt, ʿefrēt, 'afreet, 'afret, 'afreit, 'afrit, 'afriit, 'efreet, 'efret, efreit, 'efriit, 'efrit, 'ifreet, 'ifret, 'ifreit, afreet, afret, afreit, afrit, afriit, efreet, efret, efreit, efriet, efrit, efriit, éfrit, ifreet, ifret, ifreit, ifriet, ifrite, ifriite

Etymology

From Arabic عِفْرِيت (ʕifrīt).

Pronunciation

Noun

ifrit (plural ifrits)

  1. (Islam) A kind of djinn mentioned in the Qur'an.
  2. (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.”
  3. A species of passerine bird endemic to New Guinea, in full the blue-capped ifrit.

Descendants

  • Japanese: イフリート (ifurīto)

Translations

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Finnish

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Etymology

From Arabic عِفْرِيت (ʕifrīt).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈifrit/, [ˈifrit̪]
  • Rhymes: -ifrit
  • Syllabification(key): if‧rit
  • Hyphenation(key): if‧rit

Noun

ifrit

  1. (Islamic mythology) ifrit

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...
More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...
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Indonesian

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Etymology

Inherited from Malay ifrit, from Classical Malay ifrit, from Arabic عِفْرِيت (ʕifrīt).

Pronunciation

Noun

ifrit (plural ifrit-ifrit)

  1. (Islam) ifrit

Further reading

Malay

Malay Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

From Arabic عِفْرِيت (ʕifrīt).

Noun

ifrit (Jawi spelling عفريت, plural ifrit-ifrit or ifrit2)

  1. (Islamic mythology) ifrit

Descendants

Norwegian

Etymology

From Arabic عِفْرِيت (ʕifrīt).

Noun

ifrit

  1. (Islamic mythology) ifrit

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عِفْرِيت (ʕifrīt).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈi.frit/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ifrit
  • Syllabification: i‧frit

Noun

ifrit m animal

  1. (Islam, mythology) ifrit (evil spirit)

Declension

Further reading

  • ifrit in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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Spanish

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Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عِفْرِيت (ʕifrīt).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /iˈfɾit/ [iˈfɾit̪]
  • Rhymes: -it
  • Syllabification: i‧frit

Noun

ifrit m (plural ifrits)

  1. (Islam, mythology) ifrit

Turkish

Turkish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish عفریت, from Persian عِفْرِیت ('efrit), from Arabic عِفْرِيت (ʕifrīt).

Noun

ifrit (definite accusative ifridi, plural ifritler)

  1. (Islam) ifrit

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