satin

See also: Satin, satın, sätin, and sat in

English

Etymology

From French satin, which is derived from "Zaitun", the Arabic name for the Chinese city of Quanzhou, itself derived from Arabic زَيْتُون (zaytūn, “Zayton; olive”), from phono-semantic matching of Chinese 刺桐 (MC tshjeH duwng, “coral tree”) in 刺桐城 (MC tshjeH duwng dzyeng, “coral tree town”), an old name for Quanzhou.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsætɪn/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ætɪn

Noun

satin (countable and uncountable, plural satins)

1. A cloth woven from silk, nylon or polyester with a glossy surface and a dull back. (The same weaving technique applied to cotton produces cloth termed sateen).
   • 1878, Henry Yule, "Chinchew" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. V, p. 673:

     Ibn Batuta informs us that a rich silk texture made here was called Zaitûniya; and there can be little doubt that this is the real origin of our word Satin,—Zettani in mediæval Italian, Aceytuni in Spanish.

2. (slang, obsolete) Gin (the drink).
   • 2014, Richard Gordon, The Private Life of Jack the Ripper, page 13:

     'This poor gal was robbed, barely left a stitch, that and the drink... mind, I likes a drop of satin – wot you'd call gin – myself. I'll say nothing against it. She ended thrown out of an upstairs winder.'

Derived terms

• antique satin
• Denmark satin
• farmers' satin
• satinash
• satin bowerbird
• satin carpet
• satin damask
• satin de chine
• satin de laine
• satinet
• satinette
• satinflower
• satin flycatcher
• satin glass
• satin jean
• satin paper
• satinpod
• satin sheeting
• satin spar
• satin stitch
• satin stone
• satin weave
• satinwood
• satiny
• slipper satin
• surf satin
• white satin
• yard of satin
• yard of satin

 

Related terms

• sateen

Translations

cloth with a glossy surface and a dull back

• Arabic: أَطْلَس m (ʔaṭlas)

  Egyptian Arabic: اطلس m (aṭlas)

• Armenian: աթլաս (hy) (atʻlas)
• Azerbaijani: atlaz (az)
• Belarusian: атла́с m (atlás), саці́н m (sacín)
• Bulgarian: атлаз (bg) m (atlaz), сатен m (saten)
• Burmese: ဖဲ (my) (hpai:)
• Catalan: setí (ca) m, ras (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 緞子／缎子 (zh) (duànzi), 色丁 (zh) (sèdīng)

• Czech: atlas (cs) m
• Dutch: satijn (nl) n
• Esperanto: sateno
• Finnish: satiini (fi)
• French: satin (fr) m
• German: Satin (de) m, Satinstoff m, Satintuch n, Atlasstoff m, Atlastuch n, Atlasgewebe n
• Greek: σατέν (el) n (satén)
• Hindi: अतलस m or f (atlas)
• Ingrian: atlassi
• Italian: satin (it) m raso (it) m
• Japanese: 本繻子 (ほんしゅす, honshusu), 繻子 (しゅす, shusu), サテン (ja) (saten), 朱子 (しゅす, shusu), サティン (satin)
• Korean: 새틴 (saetin), 공단 (gongdan)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ساتەن (sātan), ئەتلەس (atlas), ئاتلاس (ātlās)

  Northern Kurdish: saten (ku), etles (ku), atlas (ku)

• Lao: ຕ່ວນ (tūan)
• Maori: hatini
• Maranao: lasi, sati
• Persian: اطلس (fa) (atlas), ساتن (fa) (sâtan)
• Plautdietsch: Satien f
• Polish: atłas (pl) m
• Portuguese: cetim (pt) m
• Russian: атла́с (ru) m (atlás), сати́н (ru) m (satín)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: са̀те̄н m

  Roman: sàtēn (sh) m

• Spanish: raso (es) m, satén (es) m
• Swedish: satin (sv) c, satäng (sv) c
• Tajik: атлас (atlas)
• Thai: ต่วน (th) (dtùuan)
• Turkish: atlas (tr), saten (tr)
• Ukrainian: атла́с (uk) m (atlás), сати́н m (satýn)
• Urdu: اطلس m or f (atlas)
• Uzbek: atlas (uz)

Adjective

satin (not comparable)

1. Semigloss.

   satin paint

Translations

smooth and shiny

• Arabic: صَقِيل (ṣaqīl)
• Bulgarian: лъскав (bg) (lǎskav), гланцов (bg) (glancov)
• French: satiné (fr)
• Greek: σατινέ (el) (satiné), σατινένιος (el) (satinénios)

Verb

satin (third-person singular simple present satins, present participle satining, simple past and past participle satined)

1. (transitive) To make (paper, silver, etc.) smooth and glossy like satin.

References

• (gin): John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Further reading

• “satin”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Astin, Insta, Saint, Santi, Sinta, Tanis, Tians, antis, insta-, saint, stain, stian, tians, tisan

Cebuano

Etymology

From English satin, from Old French satin, from Italian setino, probably via unattested Late Latin sētīnus (“silken [cloth]”), from Latin sētā.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sa‧tin

Noun

satin

1. satin

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic زَيْتُون (zaytūn, “Zayton; olive”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.tɛ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

satin m (plural satins)

1. satin

Further reading

• “satin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

satin m (invariable)

1. satin

   Synonyms: raso, setino, zetani, (obsolete) zettani

Derived terms

• satinato

Anagrams

• Nasti, Santi, santi, stani

Latin

Etymology

Contraction of satisne.

Adverb

satin (not comparable)

1. introducing questions

   Satin hoc plane? ― Is this beyond all doubt?

   Satin omnia ex sententia? ― Is everything going according to plan?

   Satin salva sunt omnia? ― Is everything sound?

References

• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • are you in your right mind: satin (= satisne) sanus es?
    

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French satin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saˈtin/

Noun

satin n (uncountable)

1. satin

Declension

declension of satin (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) satin	satinul
genitive/dative	(unui) satin	satinului
vocative	satinule

Further reading

• satin in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Swedish

Alternative forms

• satäng

Noun

satin c or n

1. satin

Declension

Declension of satin
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	satin	satinen	satiner	satinerna
Genitive	satins	satinens	satiners	satinernas

Declension of satin
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	satin	satinet	satiner	satinerna
Genitive	satins	satinets	satiners	satinernas

References

• satin in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• satin in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• satin in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish satín.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saˈtin/, [sɐˈtin]
• Hyphenation: sa‧tin

Noun

satín (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜆᜒᜈ᜔)

1. satin

Adjective

satín (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜆᜒᜈ᜔)

1. made of satin

Related terms

• satinado