'... hence, we are always malā'ika (angels), forgetting that ashayṭān was once a malāk (angel).
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Shaitan
//ˈʃeɪtan//
Synonyms for "shaitan" (23 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (5)
Proper Noun(3 words)
Strong matches (7)
Related words (11)
Proper Noun(8 words)
Noun(1 words)
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Translations
60 translations across 58 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- shejtan name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Amharic
1 entries- ሳይጣን name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Arabic
1 entries- شَيْطَان name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Armenian
1 entries- շեյթան name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Assamese
1 entries- চৈতান name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- şeytan name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Bashkir
1 entries- шайтан name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Belarusian
1 entries- шайта́н name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Bengali
1 entries- শয়তান name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Bulgarian
1 entries- шейта́н name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- شەیتان name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Chechen
1 entries- шайтӏа name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Chinese
1 entries- шэтани name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 撒旦 name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Crimean Tatar
1 entries- şaytan name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Esperanto
1 entries- Satano name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Finnish
1 entries- shaitan name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
French
1 entries- chétane name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Georgian
1 entries- შაიტანი name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
German
1 entries- Schaitan name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Gujarati
1 entries- શયતાન name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Hausa
1 entries- shaidan name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Hebrew
1 entries- שייטן name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Hindi
1 entries- शैतान name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Indonesian
1 entries- syaitan name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Iranian Persian
1 entries- شِیْطان name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Japanese
1 entries- シャイターン name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Kazakh
2 entries- сайтан name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
- шайтан name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Korean
1 entries- 사탄 name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- шайтан name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Macedonian
1 entries- шејтан name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Malay
1 entries- syaitan name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Maltese
1 entries- xitan name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Marathi
1 entries- सैतान name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- şeytan name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Odia
1 entries- ଶୟତାନ name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- شیطان name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Pashto
1 entries- شيطان name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Persian
1 entries- شَیْطَان name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Portuguese
1 entries- shaitan name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਸ਼ੈਤਾਨ name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Romanian
1 entries- șeitan name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Russian
1 entries- шайта́н name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- šéjtān name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
- ше́јта̄н name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Somali
1 entries- shayddaan name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Sundanese
1 entries- sétan name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Swahili
1 entries- shetani name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Tajik
1 entries- шайтон name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Tatar
1 entries- шайтан name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Thai
1 entries- ชัยฏอน name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Tigrinya
1 entries- ሰይጣን name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Turkish
1 entries- şeytan name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Turkmen
1 entries- şeýtan name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Ukrainian
1 entries- шайта́н name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Urdu
1 entries- شَیطان name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Uyghur
1 entries- شەيتان name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Uzbek
1 entries- shayton name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Yiddish
1 entries- שאַיטאַן name (Iblis, Satan in Islam)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
'... 'A man and a jinni became friends. One day, the man asked the jinni, 'How come you look like a real human being?' [The jinni answered,]'We... shayāṭīn 'devils/demons' appear to people in whatever form we want, and we disappear whenever we want.'.
Source: wiktionary
Dust columns are called shaitans or devils by the Beloochees, who have a superstitious feeling with regard to them.
Source: wiktionary
The dust borne in these shaitans of wind is often carried for vast distances […]
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.