Meaning of afrit | Babel Free

Definitions

Alternative spelling of ifrit.

alt-of, alternative

Examples

“1902, Rudyard Kipling, The Butterfly that Stamped, in Just So Stories, reprinted in 2004, The Complete Children's Short Stories, page 366, Of course if he had chosen to turn his ring on his finger and call up the Djinns and the Afrits they would have magicked all those nine hundred and ninety-nine quarrelsome wives into white mules of the desert or greyhounds or pomegranate seeds; […] .”

“The spirits they work with are called "Afrits", and they employ the agency of the Evil Eye.”

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