sabbat

From French sabbat (“Sabbath”).

sabbat (plural sabbats)

1. witches' Sabbath

• abbats, batabs

Borrowed from Latin sabbatum (“Sabbath”), from Ancient Greek σάββατον (sábbaton, “Sabbath”), from Hebrew שַׁבָּת‎ (shabát, “Sabbath”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑ.bɑt/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: sab‧bat

sabbat m (plural sabbats, diminutive sabbatje n)

1. Sabbath

• sjabbat
• sjabbes

• sabbatjaar
• sabbatsheiliging
• sabbatsrust
• sabbatschennis

• Negerhollands: sabbath
• → Papiamentu: sabbat (dated)

• chabbat, shabbat

Borrowed from Latin sabbata or sabbatum, from Ancient Greek σάββατον (sábbaton, “Sabbath”), from Hebrew שבת‎ (shabát, “Sabbath”).
In regards to the semantic evolution to "witches' meeting" compare with ramdam, brouhaha. See also samedi.

• IPA^(key): /sa.ba/

• Audio

  (file)

• Homophone: Saba

sabbat m (plural sabbats)

1. Sabbath, biblical seventh day

   Les juifs observent fort exactement le sabbat.

2. witches' Sabbath, meeting of witches at midnight

   Qu’est-ce que vous portez donc là, mon petit fieu ? — Des crapauds qui t’ont vue au sabbat, vieille sorcière, répondit celui-ci. (Charles Deulin, Manneken-Pis)

3. noisy meeting

   Ces ivrognes ont fait un terrible sabbat.

• sabbataire
• sabbatique
• sabbatiser
• sabbatisme
• sabbatiste

• → English: sabbat

• samedi

• “sabbat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• “sabbat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Arabic سَبَّتَ‎ (sabbata), intensive of سَبَتَ‎ (sabata, “to cut, smite, cast down”). The root partly overlaps with س ب ط‎ (s-b-ṭ), which could explain the Maltese a-vocalism. It is likely that the verb was later associated with and influenced by the unrelated Sicilian sbattiri, Italian sbattere.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsab.bat/

sabbat (imperfect jsabbat)

1. to bang, thump, stamp

From Latin sabbata, sabbatum, from Ancient Greek σάββατον (sábbaton, “Sabbath”).

sabbat m (plural sabbats)

1. (Jersey) witches' Sabbath

From Hebrew שבת‎ (shabát).

sabbat m (definite singular sabbaten, indefinite plural sabbater, definite plural sabbatene)

1. Sabbath, the Biblical seventh day of the week, observed as a day of rest in Judaism

• heksesabbat

• “sabbat” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Hebrew שבת‎ (shabát).

sabbat m (definite singular sabbaten, indefinite plural sabbatar, definite plural sabbatane)

1. Sabbath (as above)

• heksesabbat

• “sabbat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

sabbat m (plural sabbats)

1. Alternative form of sabá

Ultimately from Hebrew שַׁבָּת‎.

sabbat c

1. Sabbath (Biblical seventh day of the week, observed in Judaism and by some Christians)
2. Sabbath (Sunday, observed by the majority of Christians)

• sabbatsår

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

sabbat

1. supine of sabba.