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afreet

afreet is the alternative spelling of ifrit.

Meaning of ifrit

Noun

ifrit (plural ifrits)

  1. A kind of djinn mentioned in the Qur'an.
  2. (Arab mythology) A demon, evil spirit, often associated with the underworld.
    • 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?"1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXI, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 211
  3. A species of passerine bird endemic to New Guinea, in full the blue-capped ifrit.

Forms of afreet

pluralafreets

Questions about afreet

What is afreet the alternative spelling of?
Afreet is the alternative spelling of ifrit.

Words near afreet in the dictionary

  1. Afrasiyab
  2. Afrasyab
  3. afrayed
  4. afreard
  5. afreared
  6. afreet
  7. afreets
  8. afreight
  9. afreit
  10. afreits
  11. Afrena

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Adapted from Wiktionary: afreet (page history and authors); ifrit (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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