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Shaitan

Shaitan \Shai"tan\, Sheitan \Shei"tan\, n. [Written also sheytan.] [Hind. shait[=a]n, fr. Ar. shai[.t][=a]n.]

  1. Among Mohammedans:

    1. An evil spirit; the evil one; the devil.

    2. One of bad disposition; a fiend. [Colloq.]

  2. (Meteor.) A dust storm. [India]

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shaitan

n. 1 An evil djinn of Arab mythology, Satan, devil. 2 (cx India archaic English) A dust storm.

WordNet
shaitan

n. (Islam) a rebellious jinni who leads men astray [syn: shaytan]

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Shaitan (film)

Shaitan (translation: Devil) is a 2011 Hindi crime thriller film, directed by Bejoy Nambiar starring Rajeev Khandelwal, Kalki Koechlin, Gulshan Devaiya, Shiv Pandit, Neil Bhoopalam, Kirti Kulhari, Rajit Kapoor, Pawan Malhotra and Rajkummar Rao. The film was released on 10 June 2011.

Usage examples of "shaitan".

And reading his thoughts, Shaitan had whisperingly, gurglingly, chortlingly agreed, 'Aye, it's simple as that: I like it, and I need the practice!

Its focus is Mount Shaitan, an active volcano, and its fae is so wild that few men dare to even approach it.

Then Shaitan went down on his knees beside him, and gloomed upon him with his scarlet eyes.

And while the great grey wolf had no way of knowing it, he, his father and Shaitan the Fallen, all three of them, shared a common problem: their memories were impaired.

With the exception of Lord Shaitan the Unborn, who preferred absolute control over his odalisques, and Hengor Hagi, because he had the bulk of a bull shad and Rusha would not suffer the necessary bruising of such an affaire, she'd had all the Lords worth mentioning as lovers.

Here is Shaitan himself walking in through our door, and I am made to offer him hot chicken yakhni, cooked by my own right hand.

Tamalane reported profound changes moving through Rakis as people everywhere on the planet began praying to Sheeana instead of to Shaitan or even to Shai-hulud.

The common people of Rakis have been calling him Shaitan for more than a thousand years.

She believed implicitly in the other world, which overlapped their own so intimately, the realm in which the angels, the djinni and the shaitans existed.