"jin" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "jinn"
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      "examples": [
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          "ref": "1928, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 21, in Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle, page 281:",
          "text": "Each grasped a musket in one hand and searched for his hijab with the other, for each carried several of these amulets, and that in demand this night was the one written against the jin, for certainly none but a jin could have done this thing.",
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        "3": "神",
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      "expansion": "Japanese 神 (jin)",
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  "etymology_text": "From Japanese 神 (jin).",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "A portion of dead wood on a branch or at the top of the trunk of a bonsai tree, whether formed naturally or deliberately to suggest age and hardship."
      ],
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          "wood",
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          "branch",
          "branch"
        ],
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          "trunk",
          "trunk"
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        [
          "bonsai",
          "bonsai"
        ],
        [
          "tree",
          "tree"
        ],
        [
          "age",
          "age"
        ],
        [
          "hardship",
          "hardship"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "jin"
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          "ref": "1928, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 21, in Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle, page 281:",
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      ],
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          "bonsai",
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          "hardship",
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