Marid
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Marid (Arabic: مارد mārid) is an Arabic word meaning rebellious, which is sometimes applied to supernatural beings.
In Arabic sources
The word mārid is an active participle of the root m-r-d (مرد), whose primary meaning is recalcitrant, rebellious. Lisān al-`arab, the encyclopedic dictionary of classical Arabic compiled by Ibn Manzur, reports only forms of this general meaning.[1] It is found as an attribute of evil spirits in the Qur'an (aṣ-Ṣāffāt, 37:7), which speaks of a "safeguard against every rebellious devil" (شَيْطَانٍ مَارِدٍ, shaitān mārid). The Wehr-Cowan dictionary of modern written Arabic also gives secondary meanings of demon and giant.[2] Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon cites a source where it "is said to be applied to an evil jinnee of the most powerful class,"[3] but this distinction is by no means universal. For example, in standard Arabic editions of One Thousand and One Nights one finds the words marid and ifrit used interchangeably (see, e.g., The Story of the Fisherman in the MacNaghten edition.)[4]
In modern fantasy genres
In Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus Sequence, marids are the most powerful type of demons summoned by magicians.[5]
In Dungeons and Dragons marids are genies from the Elemental Plane of Water.
See also
References
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- ↑ Hans Wehr & J M. Cowan. A dictionary of modern written Arabic. Third Edition. Ithaca, N.Y.: Spoken Language Services. p. 903.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Calcutta, W. Thacker and co. 1839, vol. 1, p. 20.
- ↑ Jonathan Stroud. The Amulet of Samarkand (The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book 1). Disney-Hyperion; Reprint edition (2004). p. 36
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