shaitan

English

Etymology

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

Noun

shaitan (plural shaitans)

An evil djinn of Arab mythology, Satan, devil.
(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

Portuguese

Noun

shaitan m (plural shaitans)

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

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