shagreen

English - Turkish

Definition of shagreen in English Turkish dictionary

sağrı derisi

{i} keler derisi

{i} köpekbalığı derisi

{i} sahtiyan

telatin denilen sahtiyan

sağrı deri

English - English

Definition of shagreen in English English dictionary

An untanned leather, often dyed green; originally made from horse skin, today mostly made from the skin of a shark or ray

{n} a kind of very rough fish-skin

One who, or that which, shades

Shade within defined limits; obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent on a surface, and representin

Quality or state of being shady

This characteristic surface is produced by pressing small seeds into the grain or hair side when moist, and afterward, when dry, scraping off the roughness left between them, and then, by soaking, causing the portions of the skin which had been compressed or indented by the seeds to swell up into relief

{i} rawhide with a rough and granular surface, rough untanned leather

It is used for covering small cases and boxes

That filling up which represents the effect of more or less darkness, expressing rotundity, projection, etc

The dogfishes of the genus Scyllium furnish a large part of that used in the arts

A kind of untanned leather prepared in Russia and the East, from the skins of horses, asses, and camels, and grained so as to be covered with small round granulations

A machine, resembling a well sweep, used in Egypt for raising water from the Nile for irrigation

Covered with rough scales or points like those on shagreen

The skin of various small sharks and other fishes when having small, rough, bony scales

Being without shade; not shaded

To chagrin

An untanned leather, often dyed green, sometimes made from the skin of a shark

Act or process of making a shade

Made or covered with the leather called shagreen

in a picture or a drawing

In a shady manner

Full of shade; shady

Hyphenation

sha·green

Synonyms

galuchat, sharkskin

Etymology

[ sha-'grEn, sh&- ] (noun.) 1677. 1677, French chagrin, from Turkish sağrı. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2008.“” in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Online.Webster's New World College Dictionary 2010 However, the etymology of French chagrin is complex and disputed, likely of Germanic origin – whether there was any influence between an existing French word of Germanic origin and a Turkish loan is unclear.