Definition of "shaitan" []

• Islam The Devil; Satan. (noun)
• An evil spirit; a fiend. (noun)

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• "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."
• "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. ""
• "In calling him shaitan, "satan," people were not always speaking metaphorically."