different between shaitan vs shaytan

English

From Arabic ????????? (šay??n, “satan, devil”). Doublet of Satan.

shaitan (plural shaitans)

a demon, a devil an enemy of divine
(Islam) Iblis, Satan.
(India, archaic) A dust storm.
- 1888, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  Dust columns are called shaitans or devils by the Beloochees, who have a superstitious feeling with regard to them.
- 1925, Henry Michael Collins, From pigeon post to wireless (page 158)
  The dust borne in these shaitans of wind is often carried for vast distances […]

shaitan m (plural shaitans)

shaytan (plural shaytans)

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