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sheytân

sheytân 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

See all 3 meanings of shaitan

Forms of sheytân

pluralsheytâns

Questions about sheytân

What is sheytân the alternative spelling of?
Sheytân is the alternative spelling of shaitan.

Words near sheytân in the dictionary

  1. sheykhs
  2. sheytel
  3. sheytels
  4. sheytl
  5. sheytls
  6. sheytân
  7. sheytâns
  8. SHF
  9. SHFs
  10. SHG
  11. SHGC

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sheytân (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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