satin

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”), ^[1][2][3] from phono-semantic matching from Chinese 刺桐 (MC tshjeH duwng, “coral tree”) in 刺桐城 (MC tshjeH duwng dzyeng, “coral tree town”), an old name for Quanzhou.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsætɪn/

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• Rhymes: -ætɪn

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 ,—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.'

• sateen

satin (not comparable)

1. Semigloss.

   satin paint

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.

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

• “satin”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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

From English satin, from French satin.

• Hyphenation: sa‧tin

satin

1. satin

Borrowed from Arabic زَيْتُون (zaytūn, “Zayton; olive”).^[1][2][3]

• IPA^(key): /sa.tɛ̃/

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satin m (plural satins)

1. satin

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

satin m (invariable)

1. satin

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

• satinato

• Nasti, Santi, santi, stani

Contraction of satisne.

satin (not comparable)

1. introducing questions — satis with the enclitic interrogative -ne: enough, truly, really

   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?

   • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 747–749:

     DĀVUS: Quae est haec fābula? / Eho Mȳsīs, puer hic unde est? Quisve hūc attulit? / MȲSĪS: Satin sānus es, quī mē id rogitēs?

     (translating idiomatically)
     DAVUS (who previously gave Mysis the baby to place on the doorstep, now feigns surprise): What’s the story here? Hey Mysis, where’d this baby come from? Who brought him here?
     MYSIS: Are you in your right mind, asking me that [question]?

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

Borrowed from French satin.

• IPA^(key): /saˈtin/

satin n (uncountable)

1. satin

• “satin”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

• satäng

satin c or n

1. satin

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

• saten

Borrowed from Spanish satén, from French satin, from Arabic زَيْتُون (zaytūn, “Zayton; olive”). Doublet of aseytuna and aseytuno.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /saˈtin/ [sɐˈt̪ɪn̪]
• Rhymes: -in
• Syllabification: sa‧tin

satín (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜆᜒᜈ᜔)

1. satin

   Synonym: raso

satín (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜆᜒᜈ᜔)

1. made of satin

See sa'tin.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈsatin/ [ˈsaː.t̪ɪn̪]
• Rhymes: -atin
• Syllabification: sa‧tin

satin (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜆᜒᜈ᜔)

1. alternative spelling of sa'tin

• “satin”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “satin”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• sinta, istan, sinat, Tsina