genie
/ˈd͡ʒiː.ni/ sustantivo B2En español: genio
- A jinn, a being descended from the jann, normally invisible to the human eye, but who may also appear in animal or human form.
- A fictional magical being that is typically bound to obey the commands of a mortal possessing its container. · genie in a bottle
Plural genii
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“I was then almost assured that the inheritance had neither profited the Borgias nor the family, but had remained unpossessed like the treasures of the Arabian Nights, which slept in the bosom of the earth under the eyes of the genie.
All was useless, the treasure disappeared, and had again reverted to the genii from whom for a moment he had hoped to carry it off.
I began to think of genii, sylphs, gnomes, in short, of all the ministers of the occult sciences, until I laughed aloud at the freaks of my own imagination.
It is the work of another age, constructed by the genii of earth and water.”
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