shaitan

shaitan

English

Etymology

From Arabic شَيْطَان‎ (šayṭān, “Satan, devil”).

Noun

shaitan (plural shaitans)

1. An evil djinn of Arab mythology, Satan, devil.
2. (India, archaic) A dust storm.
   • 1888, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

     Dust columns are called shaitans or devils by the Beloochees, who have a superstitious feeling with regard to them.

   • 1925, Henry Michael Collins, From pigeon post to wireless (page 158)

     The dust borne in these shaitans of wind is often carried for vast distances […]

Translations

an evil djinn of Arab mythology, Satan, devil

Albanian: shejtan (sq) m Arabic: شَيْطَان‎ m (šayṭān) Azerbaijani: şeytan (az) Bashkir: шайтан (šaytan) Belarusian: шайта́н m (šajtán) Bengali: শয়তান (shôytan) Bulgarian: шейта́н m (šejtán) Chinese: Mandarin: 撒旦 (zh) (sādàn) Crimean Tatar: şaytan Esperanto: Satano (eo) Finnish: shaitan Hindi: शैतान (hi) m (śaitān) Indonesian: syaitan (id) Japanese: シャイターン (shaitān) Kazakh: сайтан (saytan), шайтан (şaytan) Korean: 사탄 (ko) (satan) Kurdish: Kurmanji: şeytan (ku) m Kyrgyz: шайтан (ky) (şaytan) Macedonian: ше́јтан m (šéjtan)

Malay: syaitan Maltese: xitan m Marathi: सैतान m (saitāna) Pashto: شيطان‎ (ps) m (šaytãn) Persian: شیطان‎ (fa) (šeytân) Portuguese: shaitan m Russian: шайта́н (ru) m (šajtán) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: шејтан m Roman: šejtan (sh) m Swahili: shetani (sw) Tajik: шайтон (tg) (šayton) Tatar: шайтан (tt) (şaytan) Thai: ชัยฏอน (chai-dton) Turkish: şeytan (tr) Turkmen: şeýtan Ukrainian: шайта́н m (šajtán) Urdu: شیطان‎ m (śaitān) Uyghur: شەيتان‎ (sheytan) Uzbek: shayton (uz) Yiddish: שאַיטאַן‎ m (shaytan)

Anagrams

• Ashanti, Sanhita, Taishan, anthias, tahinas

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Portuguese

Noun

shaitan m (plural shaitans)

1. (Arab mythology) shaitan (an evil djinn or devil)