# السبت
## Arabic
### Etymology

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”). Displaced شِيَار (šiyār).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /as.sabt/

### Noun

السَّبْت • (as-sabt) m
* 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.
* the Sabbath
* the duration of a week, seven-day cycle

#### Synonyms

* يَوْم السَّبْت (yawm as-sabt)

#### Descendants

* → Afar: sábti
* → Malagasy: asabotsy
* → Somali: sábti
* → Indonesian: Sabtu

#### See also

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

### References

* Lane, Edward William (1863) “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) A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, page 319
* ↑ "The Epic of Atraḥasis" from Livius.org, © 1995–2017 adapted from B.R. Foster's translation; see especially 221 where the term appears.

## Hijazi Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic السَّبْت (as-sabt).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /as.sabt/

### Proper noun

السبت • (as-sabt) m
* Saturday

#### See also

* 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)

## Moroccan Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic السَّبْت (as-sabt).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɪs.sabt/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

السبت • (es-sabt) m
* Saturday
    Synonym: يوم السبت (yūm es-sabt)

#### See also

* days of the week: إيام الأسبوع (ʔiyyām el-ʔusbūʕ) (appendix): الحد (el-ḥadd) · 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)

## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic السَّبْت (as-sabt).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /is.sabt/, [ɪsˈsab(ɪ)t]
* Audio (Amman):(file)

### Proper noun

السبت • (is-sabt) m
* Saturday
    Synonym: يوم السبت (yōm is-sabt)

#### See also

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