How to say "Satan" in Arabic
CognateMeaningSatan
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
shayṭānשיטאן
شيطان
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
satanسَاتَان
How the two words are related
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
ش-ط-نHebrew root
ש-ט-ןA textbook example of the שׂ↔ش correspondence: Hebrew שָׂטָן is spelled with sin, שׂ, and Arabic's ش answers it exactly. Same adversary, same root, same three letters.
Related Hebrew word:שטןsatanسَاتَان
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On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Levantine · Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria
Levantine monophthongizes ay → ē: shēṭān, not shayṭān.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
Cairo, too, flattens ay to ē: shēṭān.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
Darija turns ay into ī: shīṭān.
In a phrase
Satan the accursed (a common Quranic epithet)
Plural
broken plural faʿālīl