Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - genie
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(genies) 1. In stories from Arabia and Persia, a genie is a spirit which appears and disappears by magic and obeys the person who controls it. N-COUNT 2. If you say that the genie is out of the bottle or that someone has let the genie out of the bottle, you mean that something has happened which has made a great and permanent change in people’s lives, especially a bad change. PHRASE: V inflects ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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noun (plural ~s; also genii) Etymology: French genie, from Arabic jinni Date: 1748 1. jinni 1 2. a magic spirit believed to take human form and serve the person who calls it ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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- 1655, from Fr. genie, from L. genius (see genius), used 1748 in Fr. translation of "Arabian Nights" to render Ar. jinni, pl. of jinn "spirit," which it accidentally resembled. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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