Home › Words › S › saffiansaffiansaffian means A leather made from goatskins or sheepskins which is tanned with sumac and then brightly dyed.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, saffian ranks #9,840 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom Russian сафья́н (safʹján).nounA leather made from goatskins or sheepskins which is tanned with sumac and then brightly dyed.e.g.“One of the three volumes Cyby had brought was as large as the top of a small table […]; from the arms impressed upon its saffian cover, I supposed it to be the history of some old noble family.” — 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter VI, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 67:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.maroquin 65% match — Leather made from goatskin. vs saffian →saffarian 60% match — Synonym of Saffarid. vs saffian →morocco 57% match — A soft leather, made from goatskin, used especially in bookbinding. vs saffian →doeskin 57% match — Leather from the skin of a female deer or sheep. vs saffian →dogskin 57% match — Leather made from the skin of a dog, or from sheepskin in imitation of it. vs saffian →catskin 56% match — the skin of a cat, or leather made therefrom vs saffian →calfskin 55% match — A fine leather made from the hide of a calf. vs saffian →mogador 55% match — A high-grade animal skin from this region. vs saffian →