jann
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- noun
- /dʒæn/
- Literature
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jinn
- Second, the villages Nakhleh studied - Ramah and Beit-Jann - are representative of many but not all Palestinian villages in Israel.
Examples
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Dickie, Jann Carl, from Entertainment Tonight.
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Hugs, Jann
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If I wanted to marry for love... ...I would have married Gunnar jann back in Penike.
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In the rest of this article, I will analyze the functioning of Kafr Yassif's local council, which was fundamentally different from the ones in Ramah and Beit-Jann.
Academic text (2001) -
In April 2012, Obama told Rolling Stone that the reason Keystone got so much attention is not because that particular pipeline is a make-or-break issue for climate change, but because those who have looked at the science of climate change are scared and concerned about a general lack of sufficient movement to deal with the problem. Wenner, Jann S. "READY for the FIGHT." Rolling Stone no. 1156 (May 10, 2012): 42-49.
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In Arabic folklore, a jann is often depicted as a magical being that can grant wishes to those who summon it.
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The story described how the jann lived in the desert, appearing to travelers on moonlit nights.
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Many believe that a jann can take various forms, including that of a human or an animal.
Synonyms
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An invisible spirit in Muslim belief that can appear as people or animals and affect humans
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A spirit from Arabic and Muslim stories that can have magical powers
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A spirit in Islamic stories that can appear as a person or animal and affect people
An invisible spirit from Islamic stories that sometimes affects people
An invisible spirit people believe can appear as a person or animal and cause strange events
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word jann comes from Arabic and is a kind of spirit related to jinn, which is also the source of the English word genie. In Arabic it comes from the root j-n-n meaning 'to hide' or 'hidden', so a jann is remembered as a 'hidden being' that can appear or disappear.