إبليس

Possibly originating from the trilateral root ب ل س‎ (b-l-s) with the meaning of "despairing [of God's mercy] or confounded [and unable to see the right course]" from the verb أَبْلَسَ‎ (ʔablasa). Alternatively theorized to come from Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos, “devil, accuser, slanderer”).

• IPA^(key): /ʔib.liːs/

إِبْلِيس • (ʔiblīs) m

1. (religion) Iblis, Satan; the Devil.
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:34:

     ‏وَإِذْ قُلْنَا لِلْمَلَائِكَةِ ٱسْجُدُوا لِآدَمَ فَسَجَدُوا إِلَّا إِبْلِيسَ أَبَى وَٱسْتَكْبَرَ وَكَانَ مِنَ الْكَافِرِينَ‎

     waʔiḏ qulnā lilmalāʔikati sjudū liʔādama fasajadū ʔillā ʔiblīsa ʔabā wastakbara wakāna mina l-kāfirīna

     And [mention] when We said to the angels, "Prostrate before Adam"; so they prostrated, except for Iblees. He refused and was arrogant and became of the disbelievers.

• إِبْلِيسِيّ‎ (ʔiblīsiyy)
• شَيْطَان‎ (šayṭān)

• → Bashkir: иблис (iblis)
• → English: Iblis, Iblees, Eblis
• → Kazakh: ібіліс (ıbılıs)
• → Kyrgyz: ибилис (ibilis)
• → Swahili: Ibilisi
• → Turkish: iblis
• → Yoruba: bìlísì

• Lane, Edward William (1863), “إبليس”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate