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plural ifrits
(Islam) A kind of djinn mentioned in the Qur'an. examples
(Arab mythology) A demon, evil spirit, often associated with the underworld. quotations
Then she flew firmament-wards to circle it, as was her custom, and met an Ifrit on the wing who saluted her and she said to him, "Whence comest thou?"
1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXI, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 211
A species of passerine bird endemic to New Guinea, in full the blue-capped ifrit. examples