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Linked from that same page is a citation [0] that djinn is, in fact, or Arabic origin. Where do you get that it's a romanized word? Unless you mean romanized
by basilgohar 4y ago
Linked from that same page is a citation [0] that djinn is, in fact, or Arabic origin. Where do you get that it's a romanized word? Unless you mean romanized in the sense that it's spelled using the latin alphabet, but that's overly pedantic even by HN standards.
[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jinni https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jinni
- NoZebra120vClip 4y ago> but that's overly pedantic even by HN standards. Thank you! I'm overly flattered. (Also, that is always what linguists mean when we write "romanized", or as the Japanese say, rōmaji.)