| 释义 |
‖ Shaitan|ʃeɪˈtɑːn|
Forms: 7 shitan, sceithan, 7, 9 sheitan, 9– shaitan.
[Arab. shaiṭān, corruptly a. Heb. sāṭān satan.]
1. The Devil, Satan; an evil spirit.
1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 241 Ozman in his parody assures them, The Devil (Shitan they call him) ever diets so. 1662J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Ambass. 233 But as soon as they were gone, Sceithan, that is to say, the Devil, presented himself to Hagar. 1698A. Brand Emb. Muscovy into China 41, I could not meet with any thing worth taking notice of all over the Hall but their Sheitan, or (as they themselves call'd it) their God. 1863Yule Friar Jordanus' Mirabilia (Hakl. Soc.) 37 note, Certain mysterious footsteps, more than thirty or forty paces asunder, which the natives alleged to be Shaitan's.
2. transf. An evil-disposed or vicious person or animal.
1834Morier Ayesha I. i. 18 Cara Bey! oof! he is a Sheitan, he is Satan, he is a black Yezidi, a worshipper of the devil! 1849Layard Nineveh I. ix. 287 note, The term Sheitan (equivalent to Satan) is usually applied in the East to a clever, cunning, or daring fellow. 1884F. Boyle On Borderland 377 Ranjit Singh, that Shaitan, turned it into a magazine. 1895B. M. Croker Village Tales (1896) 21 The shaitan [i.e. a tiger] has slain my man and my son. Ibid. 230 But Zālim Sing had no such excuse—he is a shaitan, the son of a she ass.
3. A dust-storm.
1900Daily News 17 Apr. 5/5 In India and the East a dust storm rejoices in the name Shaïtan, otherwise Satan... To-day thousands of sightseers were the playthings of a Shaïtan in the Champ-de-Mars. 1911in Webster. |