Definition of "ifrit" []

• A kind of djinn mentioned in the Qur'an. (noun)

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• "Though it changes some elements of the Big Red Cheese's mythology, such as making Tawny Tiger a shape-changing ifrit instead of a tiger in a business suit, Smith sticks to the simple values beneath any good Shazam story."
• "Nagas hail from the Vedic/Hindu tradition; centaurs, sylphs, dryads, hamadryads, oceanids andnereids are part of Greek mythology; fairies and selkies are from Celtic and Irish mythology;anddjinn and ifrit are from the magic of old Arabia."
• "Why are nagas, centaurs, sylphs, dryads, ifrit, djin and selkies to name buta few so comparativelyunderrepresented?"