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sheitan

sheitan is the alternative spelling of shaitan.

Meaning of shaitan

Noun

shaitan (plural shaitans)

  1. a demon/devil; or evil jinn.
    • '... hence, we are always malā'ika (angels), forgetting that ashayṭān was once a malāk (angel).2014, Zuckermann, Ghil‘ad, Burning issues in Afro-Asiatic linguistics, page 141
  2. (India, archaic) A dust storm.
    • Dust columns are called shaitans or devils by the Beloochees, who have a superstitious feeling with regard to them.1888, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

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Forms of sheitan

pluralsheitans

Questions about sheitan

What is sheitan the alternative spelling of?
Sheitan is the alternative spelling of shaitan.

Words near sheitan in the dictionary

  1. sheistier
  2. sheisties
  3. sheistiest
  4. sheisty
  5. sheit
  6. sheitan
  7. sheitans
  8. sheitel
  9. sheitels
  10. sheitl
  11. sheitls

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sheitan (page history and authors); shaitan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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