Shaytan
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“On Shaytan himself,” said Samir.
From Literature
It was "shaytan," which means the devil in my parent's mother tongue, Amharic.
From Salon
His other name Shaytan means “devil” in Arabic.
From Time
Represented in peacock form, he is considered neither wholly good nor evil by Yazidis, but Muslim outsiders know him as "shaytan," or Satan.
From Washington Post
His other name is Shaytan, which is Arabic for devil, and this has led to the Yazidis being mislabelled as "devil-worshippers".
From BBC
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