shaitan

• shaytan

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

• (MLE) IPA^(key): /ˈʃeɪtan/

shaitan (plural shaitans)

1. (Islam) A demon; a devil.
   • 1963, Daniel Allan Kinsley; Allen Edwardes, Death Rides a Camel: A Biography of Sir Richard Burton, page 94:

     Now these monstrous shaitans and pisachees of India had followed him to Arabia, where they shot across the desert as evil jinn […]

2. (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 […]

• jinn
• jann
• nasnas
• ghoul
• angel

• Ashanti, Sanhita, T'ai-shan, Tai Shan, Taishan, Tanisha, anthias, tahinas

From Arabic شَيْطَان‎ (šayṭān).

shaitan m (plural shaitans)

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