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diabolos

  • plural
    of diabolo.
    diabolo
    noun
    a game in which a toplike object is spun, thrown, and caught by or balanced on and whirled along a string the ends of which are fastened to the ends of two sticks that are manipulated by hand.

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To Muslims, he is Iblis, a word perhaps derived from the Greek diabolos, the proudest of all God's creatures.

From Time Magazine Archive

The word "devil" comes from the Greek "diabolos," which means "one prone to slander; a liar."

From The World English Bible (WEB): by Anonymous

D’Herbelot supposes this title to have been a corruption of the Greek Διαβολος, diabolos.

From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by William Beckford

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