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Shaitan

noun
(Written also sheytan)
1.
(Islam) a rebellious jinni who leads men astray.  Synonym: shaytan.






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"Shaitan" Quotes from Famous Books



... The Tuareg, once the Scourge of the Sahara, the Sons of Shaitan and the Forgotten of Allah, to the Arab, Teda, Moroccan and other fellow inhabitants of North Africa, were of recent decades developing a tribal complex. Robbed of their nomadic-bandit way of life ...
— Border, Breed Nor Birth • Dallas McCord Reynolds

... all dispute the most shameless son of Shaitan that I have ever known to take up a poor girl's time with this play, and then to say: "Is not the jest enough?" Thou wilt go very far in this world.' She gave the ...
— Kim • Rudyard Kipling



Words linked to "Shaitan" :   djinny, Muhammadanism, jinnee, Islam, Mohammedanism, shaytan, genie, Islamism, djinni, Muslimism, jinni, djinn



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