Ambiguity: Although Shaitan has separate glossary definitions below, it also represents an alternative spelling of the word Saitana.

Biology (plants and animals)

Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

Shaitan in India is the name of a plant defined with Alstonia scholaris in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Chonemorpha malabarica (Lam.) G. Don (among others).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Systema Vegetabilium (1824)
· The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica (1756)
· Encycl. (Lamarck) (1786)
· Alstonia scholaris
· J. Pharm. Pharmac. Sci. (2005)
· Pacific Sci. (1949)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Shaitan, for example health benefits, pregnancy safety, extract dosage, chemical composition, diet and recipes, side effects, have a look at these references.

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This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.

Languages of India and abroad

Hindi dictionary

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

Shaitan in Hindi refers in English to:—(nm) the Satan, devil; a mischief monger; (a) naughty; mischievous, guileful, wicked; ~[vada] satanism; —[ka bacca] mischievous through and through, extremely guileful; —[ka lashkara] horde of mischief-mongers; —[ki amta] a tale that knows no end, any long-winding thing; —[ki arati utarana] to hold a candle to the devil; —[ki khala] a quarrelsome woman; —[utarana] to be liberated from a devilish obsession; to be pacified; —[ke kana katana] to outdo a devil in devilism; —([sira pana]) [cadhana/savara hona] to be obsessed by a devilish passion; to be too enraged..—shaitan (शैतान) is alternatively transliterated as Śaitāna.

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Tamil dictionary

Source: DDSA: University of Madras: Tamil Lexicon

Ṣaitāṉ (ஷைதான்) noun < Arabic shaitan. See சைதான். [saithan.]

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Tamil is an ancient language of India from the Dravidian family spoken by roughly 250 million people mainly in southern India and Sri Lanka.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Starts with: Saitana, Shaitan wood, Shaitan-ka-jhar, Shaitanako-bacca, Shaitani.

Full-text: Shaitan wood, Caittan, Shaitan-ka-jhar, Saitana.

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