noun
Meaning 1
Friday, observed in Islam as a day of rest and worship.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
Sabbath
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Sound
Pronunciation
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UK, US: /ˈsæbəθ/
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CMU ARPABET: S AE1 B AH0 TH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Saturday, observed in Judaism as a day of rest and worship.
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noun
Meaning 3
Sunday, observed in Christianity as a day of rest and worship.
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Examples
- Jerusalem is a city of three Sabbaths–Friday (Muslim), Saturday (Jewish), and Sunday (Christian).
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noun
Meaning 4
A meeting of witches. (Also called a witches' Sabbath, Shabbat, sabbat, or black Sabbath.)
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noun
Meaning 5
Among the ancient Jews and Hebrews, the seventh year, when the land was left fallow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Sabbath year
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
Synonym of uposatha, a regular day of fasting, devotion, or other religious observance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Myanmar
Topics: Buddhism, lifestyle, religion
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Synonyms: uposatha
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
Alternative letter-case form of Sabbath.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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noun
Meaning 8
a day of rest and worship: Sunday for most Christians; Saturday for the Jews and a few Christians; Friday for Muslims
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: rest day, day of rest
History
Etymology
From Middle English sabat, sabbat, sabath, from Old English sabat and Old French sabbat, both from Latin sabbatum, from Ancient Greek σάββατον (sábbaton, “Sabbath”), from Hebrew שַׁבָּת (shabát, “Sabbath”), with the spelling ending in -th, probably influenced by the traditional transliteration of the Hebrew as shabbāth, being attested since the 14th century and widespread since the 16th. Doublet of Shabbat. Possibly from the Sumerian sa-bat ("mid-rest").
Across languages
Translations
131 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: sapatti — Friday (Islam)
- French: vendredi — Friday (Islam)
- German: Freitag — Friday (Islam)
- Hebrew: יוֹם שִׁשִּׁי (yom shishí) — Friday (Islam)
- Hindi: जुमा (jumā) — Friday (Islam)
- Low German: Freedag — Friday (Islam)
- Low German: Friedag — Friday (Islam)
- Russian: пя́тница (pjátnica) — Friday (Islam)
- Serbo-Croatian: петак — Friday (Islam)
- Serbo-Croatian: petak — Friday (Islam)
- Aghwan: 𐕐𐔰𐕌𐔱𐔰𐕜 (šambaṭ) — Saturday (Judaism)
- Arabic: اَلسَّبْت (as-sabt) — Saturday (Judaism)
- Old Armenian: շաբաթ (šabatʻ) — Saturday (Judaism)
- Bulgarian: шабат (šabat) — Saturday (Judaism)
- Chinese Mandarin: 安息日 (ānxīrì) — Saturday (Judaism)
- Czech: sabat — Saturday (Judaism)
- Czech: šabat — Saturday (Judaism)
- Czech: šábes — Saturday (Judaism)
- Danish: sabbat — Saturday (Judaism)
- Dutch: sabbat — Saturday (Judaism)
- Dutch: sjabbat — Saturday (Judaism)
- Dutch: sjabbes — Saturday (Judaism)
- Esperanto: sabato — Saturday (Judaism)
- Esperanto: ŝabato — Saturday (Judaism)
- Faroese: sabbatur — Saturday (Judaism)
- Finnish: sapatti — Saturday (Judaism)
- French: sabbat — Saturday (Judaism)
- French: shabbat — Saturday (Judaism)
- French: chabbat — Saturday (Judaism)
- German: Sabbat — Saturday (Judaism)
- German: Schabbat — Saturday (Judaism)
- German: Schabbes — Saturday (Judaism)
- Greek: σάββατο (sávvato) — Saturday (Judaism)
- Ancient Greek: σάββατον (sábbaton) — Saturday (Judaism)
- Hebrew: שַׁבָּת (shabát) — Saturday (Judaism)
- Hindi: सब्त (sabt) — Saturday (Judaism)
- Hindi: विश्रामदिन (viśrāmdin) — Saturday (Judaism)
- Ido: sabato — Saturday (Judaism)
- Indonesian: sabat — Saturday (Judaism)
- Indonesian: Sabat — Saturday (Judaism)
- Irish: Sabóid — Saturday (Judaism)
- Japanese: 安息日 (ansokunichi, ansokujitsu, ansokubi) — Saturday (Judaism)
- Kazakh: демалыс күні (demalys künı) — Saturday (Judaism)
- Ladino: shabat — Saturday (Judaism)
- Lao: ຊະບາໂຕ (sa bā tō) — Saturday (Judaism)
- Latin: sabbatum — Saturday (Judaism)
- Latin: Hērōdis diēs — Saturday (Judaism)
- Low German: Sabbat — Saturday (Judaism)
- Low German: Schabbat — Saturday (Judaism)
- Low German: Schabbes — Saturday (Judaism)
- Macedonian: са́бат (sábat) — Saturday (Judaism)
- Manchu: ᠰᠠᠪᠪᠠᡨᠠ ᡳᠨᡝᠩᡤᡳ (sabbata inenggi) — Saturday (Judaism)
- Māori: hāpati — Saturday (Judaism)
- Norwegian Bokmål: sabbat — Saturday (Judaism)
- Norwegian Nynorsk: sabbat — Saturday (Judaism)
- Old English: ræstedæġ — Saturday (Judaism)
- Persian: شبات (šabât) — Saturday (Judaism)
- Plautdietsch: Sabat — Saturday (Judaism)
- Polish: szabat — Saturday (Judaism)
- Polish: szabas — Saturday (Judaism)
- Portuguese: sabá — Saturday (Judaism)
- Romanian: Șabat — Saturday (Judaism)
- Russian: шабба́т (šabbát) — Saturday (Judaism)
- Russian: суббо́та (subbóta) — Saturday (Judaism)
- Serbo-Croatian: сабат — Saturday (Judaism)
- Serbo-Croatian: sabat — Saturday (Judaism)
- Spanish: sábado — Saturday (Judaism)
- Spanish: sabbat — Saturday (Judaism)
- Spanish: shabbat — Saturday (Judaism)
- Swedish: sabbat — Saturday (Judaism)
- Thai: สะบาโต (sà-baa-dtoo) — Saturday (Judaism)
- Copala Triqui: güii naránj rá — Saturday (Judaism)
- Turkish: Şabat — Saturday (Judaism)
- Ukrainian: ша́баш (šábaš) — Saturday (Judaism)
- Volapük: jabat — Saturday (Judaism)
- Yiddish: שבת (shabes) — Saturday (Judaism)
- Czech: neděle — Sunday (Christianity)
- Danish: søndag — Sunday (Christianity)
- Esperanto: dimanĉo — Sunday (Christianity)
- Finnish: sapatti — Sunday (Christianity)
- French: dimanche — Sunday (Christianity)
- German: Sonntag — Sunday (Christianity)
- Gujarati: વિશ્રામવાર (viśrāmvār) — Sunday (Christianity)
- Hebrew: יוֹם רִאשׁוֹן (yom rishón) — Sunday (Christianity)
- Hindi: सब्त (sabt) — Sunday (Christianity)
- Hindi: विश्रामदिन (viśrāmdin) — Sunday (Christianity)
- Ido: sundio — Sunday (Christianity)
- Irish: Sabóid — Sunday (Christianity)
- Low German: Sünndag — Sunday (Christianity)
- Macedonian: не́дела (nédela) — Sunday (Christianity)
- Norwegian Bokmål: søndag — Sunday (Christianity)
- Norwegian Nynorsk: sundag — Sunday (Christianity)
- Norwegian Nynorsk: søndag — Sunday (Christianity)
- Polish: niedziela — Sunday (Christianity)
- Portuguese: domingo — Sunday (Christianity)
- Russian: воскресе́нье (voskresénʹje) — Sunday (Christianity)
- Scottish Gaelic: Sàbaid — Sunday (Christianity)
- Serbo-Croatian: недеља — Sunday (Christianity)
- Serbo-Croatian: nedelja — Sunday (Christianity)
- Spanish: domingo — Sunday (Christianity)
- Swedish: söndag — Sunday (Christianity)
- Swedish: sabbat — Sunday (Christianity)
- Tamil: ஓய்வுநாள் (ōyvunāḷ) — Sunday (Christianity)
- Ukrainian: неділя (nedilja) — Sunday (Christianity)
- Basque: akelarre — witches' Sabbath
- Bulgarian: сборище на вещици (sborište na veštici) — witches' Sabbath
- Catalan: aquelarre — witches' Sabbath
- Catalan: akelarre — witches' Sabbath
- Czech: sabat — witches' Sabbath
- Danish: heksesabbat — witches' Sabbath
- Dutch: heksensabbat — witches' Sabbath
- Esperanto: sabatorgio — witches' Sabbath
- Finnish: noitasapatti — witches' Sabbath
- French: sabbat — witches' Sabbath
- French: esba — witches' Sabbath
- German: Hexensabbat — witches' Sabbath
- German: Hexentanz — witches' Sabbath
- German: Teufelstanz — witches' Sabbath
- Italian: sabba — witches' Sabbath
- Norwegian Bokmål: heksesabbat — witches' Sabbath
- Norwegian Nynorsk: heksesabbat — witches' Sabbath
- Polish: sabat — witches' Sabbath
- Portuguese: sabbat — witches' Sabbath
- Portuguese: sabá — witches' Sabbath
- Russian: ша́ба́ш (šábáš) — witches' Sabbath
- Russian: ша́ба́ш ведьм (šábáš vedʹm) — witches' Sabbath
- Serbo-Croatian: врзино коло — witches' Sabbath
- Serbo-Croatian: vrzino kolo — witches' Sabbath
- Spanish: aquelarre — witches' Sabbath
- Swedish: häxsabbat — witches' Sabbath
- Ukrainian: ша́баш (šábaš) — witches' Sabbath
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