Wednesday, February 3, 2016

gin, jinn

Gin or gin means, most commonly, a distilled alcoholic beverage--
The distinctive flavor of gin comes from juniper berries.
I'd like a gin and tonic, pelase.

Gin also means a machine that turns in a circle, used to separate seeds from cotton or some other plant--
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin.
They bought a gin, and now they don't need workers to clean the cotton.

Gin may also mean a snare or trap for an animal--
He's hoping to catch a rabbit in the gin.

Jinn or jinn ( also spelled djinn, jin, djin;  rhymes with gin ) means a supernatural being capable of assuming human or animal form--
He claims that a jinn visited him in a dream, and warned him to stay home today.
Belief in jinn or spirits is older than Islam.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"After drinking a large quantity of gin, he claimed to have seen a jinn, who warned him of the dangers of drunkenness."

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