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sheytân (plural sheytâns)

  1. Alternative spelling of shaitan
    • 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn:
      When Adam was created, God commanded the angels to worship him; and they all obeyed except Iblees, who, for his disobedience, was turned into a Sheytân or Devil, and he became the father of the Sheytâns.