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Definition of Shaitans
1. shaitan [n] - See also: shaitan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shaitans
Literary usage of Shaitans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1886)
"The sahib must not talk so, it is not lucky; and the village people say that in
this month, always, year by year, the shaitans or ..."
2. Arabic Reading Lessons: Consisting of Easy Extracts from the Best Authors by Duncan Forbes, Edward Vernon Schalch, George Sale (1864)
"The third class is that of the shaitans or Devils, who, as we all know, are entirely
... He is said to be tho father of the shaitans ; and both he and his ..."
3. The ʻAwārifu-l-maā̇rif, Written in the Thirteenth Century by ... Shaikh by ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad Suhrawardī (1891)
"... the stars of the sky of shari'at; it, they ever keep preserved from the sway
of shaitans of men. Their luminous breath like to the penetrating meteor ..."
4. Kim by Rudyard Kipling (1905)
"... shaitans of his father's prophecy, might pray to the beast after dark, as
Hindus pray to the image of the Holy Cow. That, at least would be entirely ..."
5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1901)
"... TAYLOR has con- used the wind with the clouds or pillars of and which it
occasionally raises, and which re generally known in the Soudan as shaitans ..."
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