ifritah

English

Noun

ifritah (plural ifritahs)

1. (Arab mythology) A female ifrit.
   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 214:

     So he raised him up from the ground and flew with him like a bird soaring in upper air, the Ifritah keeping close by his side[.]

   • 1991, Judith Tarr, The Dagger and the Cross, page 368:

     Aimery stopped goggling at the spectacle of the ifritah sitting with nothing between herself and the floor but a yard's worth of air[.]

   • 2005, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Pashazade: The First Arabesk, page 30:

     Then the Ifritah spiralled high into the firmament as was her custom and there met a Djinn on the wing[.]