genie
/ˈd͡ʒiː.ni/
genie noun: a jinn, a being descended from the jann, normally invisible to the human eye, but who may also appear in animal or human form.
Noun
Proper noun capitalized: Genie
IPA/ˈd͡ʒiːni/
Genie (plural Genies)
- A male given name, diminutive of Eugene and pet form of Gene
- A female given name, diminutive of Eugenie and Eugenia
genie meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
genie in Hindi
- an unseen being in Muslim theology
- जिन्न jinn, जिन jin, जिन्द jind
- a fictional magical being
- जिन्न jinn, जिन jin, जिन्द jind
genie in Marathi
- जिनी
genie in Urdu
- an unseen being in Muslim theology
- جن
- a fictional magical being
- جن jin
genie in Bengali
- a fictional magical being
- জ্বীন jin
More languagesFewer languages
- genie in Telugu
- జినీ
- genie in Malayalam
- ജീനി jīni
- genie in Kannada
- ಜಿನೀ
- genie in Odia
- ଜିନୀ
- genie in Nepali
- जिनी
- genie in Pashto
- جن ǰen
- genie in Arabic
- جَاْنّ جِنّ jānn, جِنَّة jinna, جِنّ jinn, جِنِّيّ jinniyy
- genie in Malay
- jin
- genie in Persian
- جن jenn
- genie in Thai
- ญิน yin
Examples of genie in a sentence
- Give that lamp a good rub and see if any genies come out.
- Suppose you have a genie that grants you three wishes. If you wish for infinite wishes, that is a meta wish.
- I don't think there's any hope of repealing this city's silly parking bylaw. The genie is out of the bottle, sadly.
Forms of genie
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | genii |
| plural | genies |
| alternative form | jinn |
| alternative form | djinn |
| alternative form | djinni |
| alternative form | djinny |
| alternative form | jinni |
| alternative form | jinnie |
| alternative form | jinnee |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Genies |
Origin of genie
From French génie (“genius, genie”), a phono-semantic matching of Arabic جِنِّيّ (jinniyy).
Words formed from genie
Phrases with genie
Words that rhyme with genie
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- queeny
- sheeny
- wahine
- weeny
- zucchini
- Adiabene
- Apamene
- arancini
- Atropatene
- bandikini
- bandini
- bandkini
- beany
- blackberrytini
- blueberrytini
- broccolini
- bucatini
- burkini
- burqini
- camikini
- capellini
- caulini
- cheekini
- chocolatini
- chocotini
- cinnamontini
- coffeetini
- Commagene
- crostini
- damascene
- Datterini
- Emesene
- facekini
- fatkini
- Feeney
- fettuccine
- gingertini
- Gini
- Gogarene
- grissini
- halterini
- halterkini
- Lamborghini
- Laodicene
- lemon drop martini
- limetini
- linguine
- mankini
Questions about genie
- What does genie mean?
- Genie means a jinn, a being descended from the jann, normally invisible to the human eye, but who may also appear in animal or human form.
- What is genie in Hindi?
- Genie in Hindi is जिन्न (jinn), जिन (jin), जिन्द (jind). See Genie meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is genie?
- Genie can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce genie?
- Genie is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒiː.ni/.
- What is the plural of genie?
- The plural of genie is genii.
Words near genie in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: genie (page history and authors); Genie (page history and authors); genie (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); genie (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ജീനി (Malayalam) (page history and authors); genie (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); genie (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); genie (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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