shabbos

See also: Shabbos

English

Alternative forms

• Shabbes, shabbes
• Shabbos

Etymology

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

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!

Derived terms

• shabbos goy, shabbos gentile
• shomer shabbos