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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..

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> 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.

Genie comes from Latin via French, it's not (just) a transliteration.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/genie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genius_(mythology)

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.

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.

Countries of origin kind of affect what's common. Where I'm from will write it efrit

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