shaitan
IPA: ʃaɪtˈɑn
noun
- (Islam) a demon/devil; or evil jinn.
- (India, archaic) A dust storm.
- (Islam) Iblis, Satan.
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Examples of "shaitan" in Sentences
- Shaitan is known as the devil in Islam.
- Shaitan is an ancient and fearsome demon.
- Feeble indeed is the wily guile of Shaitan
- Iblis is the personal name for one particular shaitan.
- They help the soul fight attacks from Shaitan and djinn.
- I conclude that no Fremen ever referred to the sandworm as Shaitan.
- In Europe, a shaitan is another name for a dust devil or a waterspout.
- One group of pilgrims went to Shaitan lake, strictly checking the compass.
- In calling him shaitan, "satan," people were not always speaking metaphorically.
- They're the shaitan seen as an integral part of religion as a dialectical process, a antithesis.
- No matter how much they mean well, they cannot fight the shaitan — the devil — that lives within.
- I stand in its ruins and I say, I'm the shaitan they hate, those fundamentalists and conservatives.
- I didn't know I was a son of Sodom, a sexual shaitan in the making, but I was already on the side of the rebels.
- It isn't until the Book of Chronicles, merely fourth century BC, that the word shaitan is used to mean a being, and not only an attribute of God. "
- The true shaitan is not a posturing pretender to romantic rebellion, not a puffed-up fool in black and scarlet, but a harlequin in ragged motley, dark and light, grinning wickedly but with sorrow in his eyes.