Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The Devil; Satan.
- noun An evil spirit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun colloq., colloq. An evil spirit; the evil one; the devil.
- noun colloq. One of bad disposition; a fiend.
- noun (Meteor.), India A dust storm.
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- noun An evil
djinn ofArab mythology ,Satan ,devil
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Islam) a rebellious jinni who leads men astray
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The true shaitan is not a posturing pretender to romantic rebellion, not a puffed-up fool in black and scarlet, but a harlequin in ragged motley, dark and light, grinning wickedly but with sorrow in his eyes.
THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART ONE Hal Duncan 2007
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It isn't until the Book of Chronicles, merely fourth century BC, that the word shaitan is used to mean a being, and not only an attribute of God. "
The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967
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In calling him shaitan, "satan," people were not always speaking metaphorically.
Igor Cherstich: Qaddafi Death Shows He Was Just a Man Igor Cherstich 2011
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In calling him shaitan, "satan," people were not always speaking metaphorically.
Igor Cherstich: Qaddafi Death Shows He Was Just a Man Igor Cherstich 2011
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I didn't know I was a son of Sodom, a sexual shaitan in the making, but I was already on the side of the rebels.
THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART ONE Hal Duncan 2007
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They're the shaitan seen as an integral part of religion as a dialectical process, a antithesis.
THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART FIVE Hal Duncan 2007
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They're the shaitan seen as an integral part of religion as a dialectical process, a antithesis.
Archive 2007-04-01 Hal Duncan 2007
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No matter how much they mean well, they cannot fight the shaitan — the devil — that lives within.
Beneath My Mother’s Feet AMJED QAMAR 2008
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No matter how much they mean well, they cannot fight the shaitan — the devil — that lives within.
Beneath My Mother’s Feet AMJED QAMAR 2008
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I stand in its ruins and I say, I'm the shaitan they hate, those fundamentalists and conservatives.
Wisdom, Justice And Mercy Hal Duncan 2006
chained_bear commented on the word shaitan
FreeRice.com says it means "demon."
January 11, 2008