السبت

Definite state of the verbal noun of سَبَتَ (sabata) meaning “to rest or hibernate”, “to cease”, “to stop or be still”, “to be motionless”, “to be quiet” as a phono-semantic matching of Classical Syriac ܫܒܬܐ (šabbəṯā, “Saturday”) used in the emphatic state; the religious sense likely being borrowed from the Hebrew שַׁבָּת (šabbā́ṯ, “weekly day of rest”). Ultimately stemming from Proto-Semitic *ṯabat- (“to be still, fixed, or staying”), doublet of the native ثَبَتَ (ṯabata). Related to Akkadian 𒋛𒁍𒌅 (se-bu-tu /⁠sebûtu⁠/, “seventh day of the month”), a holiday term that is paired with Akkadian 𒌓𒌋𒐊𒄰 (UD.15.KAM /⁠šapattu, šabattu⁠/, “two-week duration, the new and full moon”, literally “a day of the cessation”).^[1] Displaced شِيَار (šiyār).

• IPA^(key): /as.sabt/

السَّبْت • (as-sabt) m

1. Saturday, the cessation or last day of the week

   السَّبْتُ لَدَى ٱلْيَهُودِ يَوْمٌ مُهِمٌّ.

   as-sabtu ladā l-yahūdi yawmun muhimmun.

   Saturday is an important day for the Jews.

2. the Sabbath
3. the duration of a week, seven-day cycle

• يَوْم السَّبْت (yawm as-sabt)

• → Afar: sábti
• → Indonesian: Sabtu (“Saturday”), Sabat (“Sabbath”)
• → Malagasy: asabotsy
• → Malay: Sabtu
  • → Ternate: Saptu
• → Somali: sábti

• days of the week: أَيَّامُ الْأُسْبُوع (ʔayyāmu al-ʔusbūʕ) (appendix): السَّبْت (as-sabt) · الْأَحَد (al-ʔaḥad) · الْاِثْنَيْن (al-iṯnayn) · الثُّلَاثَاء (aṯ-ṯulāṯāʔ) · الْأَرْبِعَاء (al-ʔarbiʕāʔ) · الْخَمِيس (al-ḵamīs) · الْجُمُعَة (al-jumuʕa) ^[edit]

• Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “سبت”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1287-1289.
• šabattu, © Association Assyrophile de France, last updated 2017.
• sebe in Black, Jeremy, George, Andrew, Postgate, Nicholas (2000) “السبت”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, via the electronic Babylonian Library, page 319

From Arabic السَّبْت (as-sabt).

• IPA^(key): /as.sabt/

السبت • (as-sabt) m

1. Saturday

• days of the week: أيّام الأسبوع (ʔayyām al-ʔusbūʕ) (appendix): الأحد (al-ʔaḥad) · الاثنين (al-ʔitnēn, al-ʔiṯnēn) · الثلثا (at-tulata, aṯ-ṯulaṯa)/الثلوث (at-talūt, aṯ-ṯalūṯ) · الأربعا (al-ʔarbiʕa)/الربوع (ar-rabūʕ) · الخميس (al-ḵamīs) · الجمعة (al-jumʕa) · السبت (as-sabt) ^[edit]

From Arabic السَّبْت (as-sabt).

• IPA^(key): /ɪs.sabt/

• Audio:

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السبت • (es-sabt) m

1. Saturday

   Synonym: يوم السبت (yūm es-sabt)

• days of the week: إيام الأسبوع (ʔiyyām el-ʔusbūʕ) (appendix): التنين (et-tnayn, et-tnīn) · التلات (et-tlāt) · الاربع (l-ārbaʕ)~الاربعة (l-ārbʕa) · الخميس (el-ḵmīs, le-ḵmīs) · الجمعة (ej-jamʕa) · السبت (es-sabt) · الحد (el-ḥadd) ^[edit]

From Arabic السَّبْت (as-sabt).

• IPA^(key): /is.sabt/, [ɪsˈsab(ɪ)t]

• Audio (Amman):

  (file)

السبت • (is-sabt) m

1. Saturday

   Synonym: يوم السبت (yōm is-sabt)

• days of the week: أيّام الأسبوع (ʔayyām il-ʔusbūʕ) (appendix): السبت (is-sabt) · الأحد (il-ʔaḥad) · الإتنين (il-ʔitnēn) · التلاتا (it-talāta) · الأربعا (il-ʔarbiʕa) · الخميس (il-ḵamīs) · الجمعة (il-jumʕa) ^[edit]