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zhiyān (=ziyān, q.v.), adj. Formidable, terrible fierce, rapacious, raging, angry.س sīn, स sa (usually named sīn-ě-mǒhmala, or sīn-ě-g̠air-manqūt̤a, 'the unpointed s'), is the eighteenth letter of the Hindūstānī, and the thirty-second consonant of the Devanāgarī, alphabet. Its sound is that of the English s, as in sun, sin. In reckoning by the abjad, q.v., it stands for 60. In almanacsit represents the sun, and a sextile aspect of the planets.. It is also an abbreviation for the word salām, 'salutation':—sa-kār, s.m. The letter or the sound sa.
Origin: Persian