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Clever name. For thos curious Efrit is Genie in Arabic and possibly the same in neighboring languages such as Persian and Turkish..

• dragonwriter 1y ago
  > For thos curious Efrit is Genie in Arabi More precisely, as I understand it, “genie" is an anglicization of its Arabic equivalent, “jinn"; Efrit is a specific kind of jinn.
  • kgwgk 1y ago
    Genie comes from Latin via French, it's not (just) a transliteration. https://www.etymonline.com/word/genie https://www.etymonline.com/word/genie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genius_(mythology) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genius_(mythology)
• wging 1y ago
  I think it might be 'e' for 'emacs' (there's precedent: eglot, eldoc, eshell, erc, emms) combined with 'ifrit', since "efrit" is a much less common spelling.
  • onehair 1y ago
    Countries of origin kind of affect what's common. Where I'm from will write it efrit
  • _steve_yegge_ 1y ago
    Yes, that's exactly why I chose it. It starts with an 'e' and it's not a super common spelling, so it wasn't taken.