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Steve Butler
Posted on Tuesday, May 11, 2004 - 04:11 am:   
Am I correct in thinking that the Japanese word 'jin' means 'devil' (as in Gai-Jin)? If so, is this a borrowing of the Arabic word 'djinn' or 'jinn', via China and the Silk Route, or is it merely a coincidence?
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Deru
Posted on Saturday, August 14, 2004 - 12:32 pm:   
Jin is a suffix meaning person. Nihon-jin is Japanese person, amerika-jin is american person. Gaijin is actually foreigner or foreign person. Devil is akuma.

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