shabbos

See also: Shabbos

English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃɑːbɪs/, /ˈʃɑːbəs/

Noun

shabbos (countable and uncountable, plural shabbosim or shabboses)

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

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