ash-shaytan

Ash-Shay·tān

[ash-shahy-tahn]
noun
(in Muslim usage) Satan; the devil.


Origin:
< Arabic al-Shaytān; see Satan

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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