Etymology
From Old English Sæternesdæg (“day of Saturn”), from Sætern (“Saturn”), from Latin Saturnus (“the god of agriculture”), possibly from Etruscan, + Old English dæg (“day”); a translation of Latin dies Saturni. Compare West Frisian saterdei, Dutch zaterdag.
Pronunciation
Noun
Saturday (plural Saturdays)
- The seventh day of the week in many religious traditions, and the sixth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; the Biblical seventh day of the week, observed as Sabbath or "Day of Rest"; it follows Friday and precedes Sunday.
Derived terms
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- Saturday closing
- Saturdaying
- Saturdayite
- Saturday-night
- Saturday Night Live
- Saturday penny
- Saturday pops
- Saturdays
- Saturday-sabbatharian
- Saturday-to-Monday
- Third Saturday in October
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Translations
day of the week
- Abkhaz: асабш (ab) (asabš)
- Afrikaans: Saterdag (af)
- Alabama: nihtahollosi
- Albanian: e shtunë (sq)
- Alutiiq: Maqineq
- American Sign Language: S@Side-PalmBack CirclesHoriz
- Amharic: ቅዳሜ (am) (kidami)
- Arabic: السبت (ar) (al-sábt) m, يوم السبت (ar) (yawm al-sábt) m
- Egyptian Arabic: السبت (el-sabt) m
- Armenian: շաբաթ (hy) (šabat')
- Old Armenian: շաբաթ (šabatʿ)
- Avar: щамат (av)
- Azeri: şənbə (az)
- Bashkir: шәмбе (şembi)
- Basque: larunbat (eu)
- Belarusian: субота (be) (subóta) f
- Bengali: শনিবার (bn) (shônibar)
- Blackfoot: to'tohtáátoyiiksistsiko
- Breton: Sadorn (br) m
- Bulgarian: събота (bg) (săbóta) f
- Burmese: စနေ (my) (săne)
- Catalan: dissabte (ca) m
- Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵙⴰⴷ (sad)
- Chechen: шот (šot)
- Cherokee: ᎤᎾᏙᏓᏈᏕᎾ (chr) (unadodawidena)
- Chichewa: loweluka
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 星期六 (cmn) (xīngqīliù), 禮拜六 (cmn), 礼拜六 (cmn) (lǐbàiliù), 周六 (cmn) (zhōuliù)
- Chuvash: шăматкун (şӓmatkun)
- Corsican: sàbatu (co) m
- Czech: sobota (cs) f
- Dakota: Owaŋkayužažapi
- Danish: lørdag (da)
- Dutch: zaterdag (nl) m
- Esperanto: sabato (eo)
- Estonian: laupäev (et)
- Faroese: leygardagur (fo) m
- Fijian: Vakarauwai (fj)
- Finnish: lauantai (fi)
- French: samedi (fr) m
- Galician: sábado (gl) m
- Georgian: შაბათი (ka) (šabat'i)
- German: Samstag (de) m, Sonnabend (de) m, Sabbat (de) m
- Greek: Σάββατο (el) (Sávvato) n
- Greenlandic: arfininngorneq (kl)
- Gujarati: શનિવાર (gu) (śanivār) m
- Haitian Creole: samdi
- Hawaiian: Pōʻaono
- Hebrew: שַׁבָּת (he) (shabát) f
- Hindi: शनिवार (hi) (śanivār) m
- Hungarian: szombat (hu)
- Icelandic: laugardagur (is) m
- Ido: saturdio (io)
- Indonesian: hari sabtu (id)
- Interlingua: sabbato (ia)
- Irish: Satharn (ga) m
- Italian: sabato (it) m
- Japanese: 土曜日 (ja) (どようび, doyōbi), 土曜 (ja) (どよう, doyō)
- Jèrriais: Sanm'di m
- Kashubian: sobòta (csb) f
- Kazakh: сенбі (kk) (senbi)
- Khmer: ថ្ងៃសៅរ៏ (km) (tngai sao)
- Kinyarwanda: Kwagatandatu (rw)
- Kongo: Lumbu kia sabala
- Korean: 토요일 (ko) (toyoil) (土曜日 (ko))
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: شهمه (ku)
- Kyrgyz: ишемби (ky) (işembi)
- Lao: ວັນເສົາ (lo) (wan-sao)
- Latgalian: sastdīne f
- Latin: diēs Saturnī (la) m, Sabbata (la) n pl
- Latvian: sestdiena (lv)
- Lithuanian: šeštadienis (lt) m
- Livonian: pūolpǟva
- Low German
- German Low German: Sünnavend m, Sünnovend m, Saterdag m
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- Luganda: Lwamukaaga
- Luxembourgish: Samschden (lb) m, Samschdeg (lb) m
- Macedonian: сабота (mk) (sábota) f
- Malay: Sabtu (ms)
- Maltese: is-Sibt (mt)
- Maori: Hātarei (mi), Rāhoroi (mi)
- Mohawk: entákta
- Mongolian: бямба (mn) (bjamba)
- Navajo: Yiską́ Damį́įgo
- Neapolitan: sàbbato, sàpato
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: lørdag (no) m
- Nynorsk: laurdag (nn) m
- Occitan: dissabte (oc)
- Ojibwe: ishkwaajanokii-giizhigad, giziibiigisaginige-giizhigad
- Old English: Sæteresdæg (ang) m, Sæterndæg (ang) m, Sæternesdæg (ang) m
- Old Norse: laugardagr m
- Old Turkic: şanba
- Ossetian: сабат (sábat)
- Papiamentu: diasabra
- Persian: شنبه (fa) (šanbe)
- Polish: sobota (pl) f
- Portuguese: sábado (pt) m
- Romani: savato
- Romanian: sâmbătă (ro) f
- Romansch: sonda (rm) f, sanda (rm) f, somda (rm) f
- Russian: суббота (ru) (subbóta) f
- Sami:
- Northern: lávvadat
- Samoan: Aso To'ona'i (sm)
- Scots: Seturday
- Scottish Gaelic: Disathairne (gd) m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: субота (sh) f
- Roman: subota (sh) f
- Shona: Chitanhatu (sn)
- Sinhalese: සෙනසුරාදා (si) (senasurādā)
- Skolt Sami: sueˊvet
- Slovak: sobota (sk) f
- Slovene: sobóta (sl) f
- Somali: Sabti (so)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: sobota f
- Upper Sorbian: sobota (hsb) f
- Sotho: Moqebele (st)
- Spanish: sábado (es) m
- Swahili: Jumamosi (sw)
- Swati: úm-gcibélo (ss)
- Swedish: lördag (sv) c
- Tagalog: Sabado (tl), sabado (tl)
- Tahitian: mahama maa
- Tajik: шанбе (tg) (šanbe)
- Taos: sóbolu
- Tarantino: sàbbete
- Tatar: шимбә (tt) (şimbä)
- Thai: วันเสาร์ (th) (wan sáo)
- Tibetan: གཟའ་སྤེན་པ་ (bo)
- Tok Pisin: Sarere (tpi)
- Tongan: Tokonaki (to)
- Tswana: Matlhatso (tn)
- Turkish: cumartesi (tr)
- Turkmen: şenbe (tk), ruhgün (tk)
- Ukrainian: субота (uk) (subóta) f
- Urdu: ہفتہ (ur) (hafta)
- Uyghur: شەنبە (ug) (shenbe)
- Uzbek: shanba (uz)
- Venetian: sabo m
- Vietnamese: thứ bảy (vi)
- Volapük: zädel (vo), velüdel (vo)
- Welsh: dydd Sadwrn (cy) m
- West Frisian: sneon (fy), saterdei (fy)
- Wolof: Gaawu (wo)
- Xhosa: uMgqibelo (xh)
- Yiddish: שבת (yi) (shabes, shábes) m
- Yup'ik: Maqineq
- Zulu: ngoMgqibelo (zu)
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Adverb
Saturday (not comparable)
- on Saturday
Translations
See also
