Shaitan

See also: shaitan

English

Alternative forms

• Al-Shaytaan

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شَيْطَان (šayṭān, “satan, devil”)

Proper noun

Shaitan

1. (Islam) Iblis, Satan.
   • 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Green Flag‎^[1]:

     Beside him two Egyptian artillerymen with their throats cut were sobbing out their lives upon the ground. "Who lays the gun this time?" asked the fierce chief, glaring at the frightened gunners. "Here, thou black-browed child of Shaitan, aim, and aim for thy life."

   • 1904, S. L. Bensusan, Morocco‎^[2]:

     He thanks Allah for his mercy to men in sending Mohammed the Prophet, who gave the world the True Belief, and he curses Shaitan, who wages war against Allah and his children.

Related terms

• shaitan

Translations

Iblis, Satan in Islam

• Albanian: shejtan (sq) m
• Amharic: ሳይጣን (sayṭan)
• Arabic: شَيْطَان (ar) m (šayṭān)
• Armenian: շեյթան (hy) (šeytʻan)
• Assamese: চৈতান (soitan)
• Azerbaijani: şeytan (az)
• Bashkir: шайтан (şaytan)
• Belarusian: шайта́н m (šajtán)
• Bengali: শয়তান (bn) (śoẏtan)
• Bulgarian: шейта́н (bg) m (šejtán)
• Chechen: шайтӏа (šajtʼa)
• Chinese:

  Dungan: шэтани (šetani)

  Mandarin: 撒旦 (zh) (sādàn)

• Crimean Tatar: şaytan
• Esperanto: Satano (eo)
• Finnish: shaitan
• French: chétane (fr) m
• Georgian: შაიტანი (šaiṭani)
• German: Schaitan (de) m
• Gujarati: શયતાન m (śayatān)
• Hausa: shaidan
• Hebrew: שייטן m (shaytán)
• Hindi: शैतान (hi) m (śaitān)
• Indonesian: syaitan (id)
• Japanese: シャイターン (shaitān)
• Kazakh: сайтан (saitan), шайтан (şaitan)
• Korean: 사탄 (ko) (satan)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: شەیتان (şeytan)

  Northern Kurdish: şeytan (ku) m

• Kyrgyz: шайтан (ky) (şaytan)
• Macedonian: шејтан m (šejtan)
• Malay: syaitan (ms)
• Maltese: xitan m
• Marathi: सैतान m (saitān)
• Odia: ଶୟତାନ (śayatāna)
• Ottoman Turkish: شیطان (şeytan)
• Pashto: شيطان (ps) m (šaytān)
• Persian:

  Classical Persian: شَیْطَان (fa) (šaytān)

  Iranian Persian: شِیْطان (fa) (šeytân)

• Portuguese: shaitan m
• Punjabi: ਸ਼ੈਤਾਨ (pa) (śaitān)
• Romanian: șeitan (ro) m
• Russian: шайта́н (ru) m (šajtán)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ше́јта̄н m

  Roman: šéjtān (sh) m

• Somali: shayddaan
• Sundanese: sétan
• Swahili: shetani (sw)
• Tajik: шайтон (tg) (šayton)
• Tatar: шайтан (tt) (şaytan)
• Thai: ชัยฏอน (chai-dtɔɔn)
• Tigrinya: ሰይጣን (säyṭan)
• Turkish: şeytan (tr)
• Turkmen: şeýtan
• Ukrainian: шайта́н m (šajtán)
• Urdu: شَیطان m (śaitān)
• Uyghur: شەيتان (sheytan)
• Uzbek: shayton (uz)
• Yiddish: שאַיטאַן m (shaytan)

Further reading

• Shaitan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia