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Meaning of "saffian" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SAFFIAN

Via Russian and Turkish from Persian sakhtiyān goatskin, from sakht hard.
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PRONUNCIATION OF SAFFIAN

saffian  [ˈsæfɪən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SAFFIAN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Saffian is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SAFFIAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

saffian

Morocco leather

Morocco leather is a soft, pliable form of leather widely used for gloves and the uppers of ladies' shoes and men's low cut shoes, but traditionally associated with book bindings, wallets, linings for fine luggage, and the like. The finest grades of Morocco leather are goat skin, but by the late 19th century other skins often were substituted in practice, particularly sheep skin and split calf skins. For example, French Morocco, is an imitation made of sheepskin. The tanning process varied widely, but the traditional tanning material was Sumac. The traditional tanning process was skilled and elaborate; according to the application, the preparation either would aim for a carefully smoothed finish, or would bring up the grain in various patterns such as straight-grained, pebble-grained, or in particular, in a bird's-eye pattern. Morocco leather is practically always dyed, traditionally most often red or black, but green, brown or other colours also were available, and in modern times there is no special constraint on colour.

Definition of saffian in the English dictionary

The definition of saffian in the dictionary is leather tanned with sumach and usually dyed a bright colour.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SAFFIAN


Christadelphian
ˌkrɪstəˈdɛlfɪən
Delphian
ˈdɛlfɪən
didelphian
daɪˈdɛlfɪən
epitaphian
ˌɛpɪˈtæfɪən
Falstaffian
fɔːlˈstɑːfɪən
firn
fɪən
gumphion
ˈɡʌmfɪən
Memphian
ˈmɛmfɪən
monodelphian
ˌmɒnəʊˈdelfɪən
Morphean
mɔːˈfɪən
nymphal
ˈnɪmfɪən
ornithodelphian
ˌɔːnɪθəˈdɛlfɪən
Orphean
ˈɔːfɪən
Paphian
ˈpeɪfɪən
Riffian
ˈrɪfɪən
Rifian
ˈrɪfɪən
ruffian
ˈrʌfɪən
sharifian
ʃəˈriːfɪən
Tartuffian
tɑːˈtʊfɪən
Tartufian
tɑːˈtʊfɪən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SAFFIAN

safety regulations
safety screen
safety standards
safety touch
safety valve
safety zone
safety-conscious
safety-deposit
safety-deposit box
safetyman
safflower
saffron
saffron powder
saffron rice
saffron strands
saffron threads
saffron yellow
saffron-coloured
saffroned
saffrony

WORDS THAT END LIKE SAFFIAN

Adrian
Asian
Australian
Brazilian
Brian
Bulgarian
Canadian
Christian
Egyptian
Halafian
humgruffian
Hungarian
Indian
Indonesian
Italian
Korsakoffian
lesbian
Russian
shereefian
sherifian

Synonyms and antonyms of saffian in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «saffian» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SAFFIAN

Find out the translation of saffian to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of saffian from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «saffian» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

saffian
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

saffian
570 millions of speakers

English

saffian
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

saffian
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

saffian
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сафьяна
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Saffian
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

saffian
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

maroquin
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Saffian
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

saffian
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

saffian
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

saffian
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Saffian
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

da dê
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

saffian
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सेफियन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sahtiyan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

saffian
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

saffian
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

сап´яну
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

saftian
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

saffian
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

safjan
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

saffian
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

saffian
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of saffian

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SAFFIAN»

The term «saffian» is normally little used and occupies the 113.966 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SAFFIAN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «saffian» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «saffian» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about saffian

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SAFFIAN»

Discover the use of saffian in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to saffian and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Ithaka: a daughter's memoir of being found
Reprint. Ithaka is sure to touch anyone who has grappled with who they are.
Sarah Saffian, 1999
2
LIFE
Georgette Saffian paid fixer Voloshen $2,000, for which he apparently fixed absolutely nothing. were in jams with the government. Late in 1965, a Dayton, Ohio urologist, Dr. Irving Helfert, acting on a friend's suggestion, telephoned Voloshen ...
3
Billboard
... with Columbia's Miles Davis. . . . Vina Saffian, former "Ed Sullivan Show" production staff member and wife of ATI president Sol Saffian, gave birth, June 7, to a nine-pound, one-ounce girl, Lisa Saffian. . . . Bell's Julie Budd does a July 9 " Mike ...
4
Adopted Like Me: My Book of Adopted Heroes
Sarah Saffian's birth parents placed her for adoption when she was an infant. Her childhood was one in which she always felt confident and well-loved even though her adoptive mom died when she was only six. Her father remarried and her ...
Ann Angel, 2013
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Sibiu - Hermannstadt:
Its most usual colour recorded in the Sibiu register was red, as were the saffian hides from i 587, 1588, and 1 594, but in 1 578 and 1 5 79 the merchants also brought yellow saffian. This particular type of dyed hide was an important trading  ...
Maria Pakucs, 2007
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Novel Word Learning by Sequential Bilingual Children: A ...
Children who are exposed to one language experience the linguistic regularities of a particular language from input which does not contain clear word boundaries (Saffian, 2001). Their early experience of linguistic regularities is the basis for ...
Pui Fong Kan, 2008
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Lexicon Urthus, Second Edition
saffian saffian a leather made from goatskin or sheepskin and tanned with sumac (i, chap. , ). It is often dyed in bright colors, typically red or yellow. saffian book one of the four books Thecla requested: “as large as the top of a small table,  ...
Michael Andre-Driussi, 2008
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The Parallel Brain: The Cognitive Neuroscience of the Corpus ...
A more extensive study on the RH reading ability was performed by Coslett and Saffian (1989a, 1994). They studied five patients with pure alexia and two patients in whom alexia was associated with optic aphasia. The reading disorder of the ...
Eran Zaidel, Marco Iacoboni, 2003
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STRANGERS AND KIN
Sarah Saffian writes with a consciousness of the search movement and its literature, and her memoir self-consciously inverts the genre in a story of unexpected reversal.43 She herself had been contemplating a search for birth family when her ...
Barbara MELOSH, 2002
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Thin Film Metal-Oxides: Fundamentals and Applications in ...
Goyal A, Norton, DP, Budai JD, Paranthaman M, Specht ED, Kroeger DM, Christen DK, He Q, Saffian B, List FA, Lee DF, Martin PM, Klabunde CE, Hartfield E, Sikka VK (1996) High critical current density superconducting tapes by epitaxial ...
Shriram Ramanathan, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SAFFIAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term saffian is used in the context of the following news items.
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Los Angeles bans possession of high-capacity gun magazines
Laurie Saffian, chair of the group Women Against Gun Violence, said the ordinance, along with another proposed law that would require guns to be kept in a ... «LA Daily News, Jul 15»
2
Artists announced for storm drain murals in Fayetteville
Cave Salamander and Zebra Swallowtail by Leah Saffian, 2012 (Maple Street and Frisco Trail). Photo courtesy of UpStream Art. The University of Arkansas ... «Fayetteville Flyer, Mar 15»
3
Blind date: Off to a bumpy start
Compiled by Melissa Schorr March 15, 2015. ELEANOR SAFFIAN. 23/clinical research coordinator. HER EXES WOULD SAY. She's a goofball. HER HOBBIES. «Boston Globe, Mar 15»
4
Valey airboat practical for flood rescue operations
ARD Technology Corporation Sdn Bhd senior manager Mohamed Saffian Omar said Airboat, produced by Valey Group, could traverse swamp, mud, and ... «Free Malaysia Today, Jan 15»
5
Passion for marathons more about fun than times, medals
Arlene Nicholas Saffian, a native of Trinidad and the events/volunteers coordinator at the Cancer Centers of America in Newnan, has accumulated her share of ... «Newnan Times-Herald, Jul 14»
6
Greely's March Magic runs out...Rangers lose to Gorham in regional …
Greely senior captain Joe Saffian traps Gorham junior Andrew Schmidt .... With 1:58 left, off a faceoff win, Saffian one-timed a shot on goal, but Broy didn't let it ... «The Forecaster, Mar 14»
7
Greely peaking at perfect time in boys' hockey
Saffian said the Rangers needed to concede that the freewheeling days of the past two years, when they could rely on a few highly skilled scorers to carry the ... «Press Herald, Mar 14»
8
Greely handles Cape, three-peat hopes still alive
It took less than four minutes for Greely to go ahead for good, when senior captain Joe Saffian scored. Senior Tommy Thompson added a second goal with 9:44 ... «The Forecaster, Feb 14»
9
Greely defeats Gorham in boys' hockey
With less than seven minutes left in the period, Tommy Thompson forged a tie by rifling in a shot from the right circle after receiving Joe Saffian's pass across the ... «Press Herald, Jan 14»
10
He left the world a better place
George Saffian, who died at 87, was a high school biology teacher with an unusual story. Forty years ago, when he saw society coming apart at the seams, he ... «Stratford Star, Nov 13»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Saffian [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/saffian>. Apr 2024 ».
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