Note 90 — PRINCE AHMAD AND THE FAIRY PERI-BANU.[63] (continued 2)
Richard Francis Burton translation
The Jinn feminine; see vol. i. 10. The word hardly corresponds with the Pers. “Peri” and Engl. “Fairy,” a creation, like the “Dív,” of the so-called “Aryan,” not “Semitic,” race.