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shabbos en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈʃɑːbɪs/
  • (Canada) audio
  • /ˈʃɑːbəs/

Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish שבת (shabes), from Hebrew שַׁבָּת (shabát). Doublet of Shabbat and Sabbath.

Meanings

  1. (Judaism, countable, uncountable) Shabbat or shabbat (the biblical seventh-day Sabbath).
    • I told that Kraut a fuckin' thousand times, I don't roll on shabbos! 1998, Joel and Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski (motion picture), spoken by Walter Sobchak (John Goodman):
    • Many of the housemates had Jewish ancestry, but in lieu of Shabbos prayers they had invented their own secular rituals. 2024 March 18, Andrew Marantz, “О.К., Doomer”, in The New Yorker, page 51:

Forms

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Shabbos alternative lexicographic
Shabbes alternative lexicographic
shabbes alternative lexicographic
shabboses Number=Plur lexicographic
shabbosim Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

shomer shabbos · shabbos goy · gut shabbos · shabbos gentile · gut shabbes