Origin of word 'Genius'?

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Any guesses?

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Jinn say tou nahin nikla?

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yes.. you got it :biggthumb:

Genius is taken from Genni. In many cultures, its a common practice to compare human beings with supernatural things like Jin/ Dev/ Pari.

Can you remember some of examples form Indo-Pak culture?

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Jin, Pari aur Deo waghaira kay baaray main parhta tha, ya umro ayyar ki zambeel.

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I mean desis also compare humans with Jin/pari.

like a beautiful lady would be called Pari and a macho man can be termed as jin ka bacha.

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Yes like lamba aadmi, deo haikal and a small one "bona".

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right and in Karachi’s language ‘yaar tu to cheeta nikla’ :hehe:

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Actually, I was reading tafseer (Modudi saheb) for this verse of Surah e Rehman:

Surat Ar-Rahman [55:76] - The Noble Qur’an - ??? ???

In Arabs, Abqar was the place, where Jinn lived.. Like we say Koh-Kaaf or Paristan. They started all nazuk o nafess things as Abqari (from/ related to Abqar). Eve a n extraordinary skilled/ talented person was referred as Abqari. There Modudi saheb mentioned that word ‘Genius’ got roots from word Genni.

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Punjabi main aik jin japha bhi hota hay…

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you mean to say ‘ghut ghut pa jhaphiyan’ :hug:

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I am thinking about the context, maybe it means something else.

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google 'ghut ghut pa japhiyan'. At your own risk

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Its mostly used as jin japha hega aye, maybe it means that he is like a jinn.

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Genie se yaa JIN se? :D

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Yes Genni itself seems to be from Arabic Jinn

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:hehe: I know, I have seen similar things on cable.

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I thought its a folk song.. until I google and found that it a fraud song :smack:

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I thought it came from Latin, as most English words have Latin [Old Roman Language] roots. =\

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You are right

Genius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In ancient Rome, the genius (plural in Latin genii) was the guiding spirit or tutelary deity of a person, family (gens), or place (genius loci).[SUP][2]](Genius - Wikipedia)[/SUP] The noun is related to the Latin verb gigno, genui, genitus, “to bring into being, create, produce.” Because the achievements of exceptional individuals seemed to indicate the presence of a particularly powerful genius, by the time of Augustus the word began to acquire its secondary meaning of “inspiration, talent.”

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:slight_smile: Mujra in other words.