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): /ˈsæt.ɪn/, [ˈsæt.n̩], [ˈsæʔ.n̩]

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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 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.'

• 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

• → Serbo-Croatian: saten
• → Turkish: saten

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

Borrowed from Dutch satijn, from Middle Dutch satijn, from Middle French satin, ultimately from Arabic زَيْتُون (zaytūn) (perhaps via Old Spanish), the Arabic name for the Chinese city of Quanzhou.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈsatin/ [ˈsa.t̪ɪn]
• Rhymes: -atin
• Syllabification: sa‧tin

satin (plural satin-satin)

1. (fashion) satin

• “satin”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

satin m (invariable)

1. satin

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

• satinato

• Nasti, Santi, santi, stani

• satin', satine

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), 2004–2026

• 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) (colloquial)

1. alternative spelling of sa'tin

• “satin”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
• “satin”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018

• sinta, istan, sinat, Tsina