afrit (pluralafrits)
- Alternative spelling ofifrit.
- 1902,Rudyard Kipling,The Butterfly that Stamped, inJust So Stories, reprinted in 2004,The Complete Children's Short Stories,page 366,
- Of course if he had chosen to turn his ring on his finger and call up the Djinns and theAfrits they would have magicked all those nine hundred and ninety-nine quarrelsome wives into white mules of the desert or greyhounds or pomegranate seeds; […] .
1936, Rollo Ahmed,The Black Art, London: Long, page196:The spirits they work with are called "Afrits", and they employ the agency of the Evil Eye.
Deverbal fromafrijden. Equivalent toaf +rit.
- IPA(key): /ˈɑf.rɪt/
- Hyphenation:af‧rit
afrit m (pluralafritten,diminutiveafritje n)
- highwayexit,slip road
afrit n (genitive singularafrits,nominative pluralafrit)
- copy,duplicate
- (computing)copy
Hægt er að takaafrit af skrá með skipuninnicp skra{,.afrit} eðacp skrá !#$.afrit.- You can make acopy of a file using the command
cp file{,.copy} orcp file !#$.copy.
Þetta erafrit af bréfinu sem ég sendi kennaranum mínum.- This is acopy of the mail I sent my teacher.
- (computing)backup
- Synonym:öryggisafrit
FromArabicعِفْرِيت(ʕifrīt).
afrit (pluralafrit-afrit)
- ifrit,genie
- exit road