Etymology

shagreen

sha·green
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Today it means: An untanned leather, often dyed green; originally made from horse skin, today mostly made from the skin of a shark or ray. Full definition →

French chagrin ← Ottoman Turkish صاغری
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The story

  1. Ottoman Turkish · derived fromصاغری
  2. French · borrowed fromchagrin
  3. English todayshagreen

First use appears c. 1677, an Anglicized form of chagrin, from French chagrin, from Ottoman Turkish صاغری (modern Turkish sağrı). However, the etymology of French chagrin is complex and disputed, and likely of Germanic origin. Whether there was any influence between an existing French word of Germanic origin and a Turkish loan is unclear.

Words from the same roots

Frenchchagrin all →

chagrin

Ottoman Turkishصاغری all →

chagrin

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.