Saturday

English

Etymology

From Middle English Saterday, from Old English sæterdæg, earlier sæternesdæġ (“day of Saturn”), from Proto-West Germanic *Sāturnas dag; a translation of Latin diēs Saturnī. Compare West Frisian saterdei, German Low German Saterdag, Dutch zaterdag.

Pronunciation

• enPR: săʹtər-dā, săʹtər-di
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsætədeɪ/, /ˈsætədi/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsætəɹdeɪ/, [ˈsæɾɚdeɪ̯], /ˈsætəɹdi/, [ˈsæɾɚdi]

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈsæɾədeɪ/
• Rhymes: -ætədeɪ, -ætədi, -ætəɹdeɪ

Noun

Saturday (plural Saturdays)

1. The seventh day of the week in many religious traditions, and the sixth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; observed as the Sabbath/Shabbat in Judaism (Friday sunset to Saturday sunset); it follows Friday and precedes Sunday.

Synonyms

• Sat, Sat. (abbreviations)

Symbols

• S, Sa
• ♄ (archaic)

Hypernyms

• day

Hyponyms

• Black Saturday
• Dynamite Saturday
• Easter Saturday
• Egg Saturday
• Holy Saturday
• Hospital Saturday
• Little Saturday
• Pink Saturday
• Whit Saturday

 

Derived terms

• Saturday Sabbatarian
• Saturday-morning cartoon
• Saturday-night
• Saturday-to-Monday
• Saturdaying
• Saturdayite
• Saturdays

 

Related terms

• first Saturday devotions
• Saturday closing
• Saturday Night Live
• Saturday penny
• Saturday pops
• Third Saturday in October

 

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: Sarere

Translations

day of the week

• Abkhaz: асабша (asabŝa)
• Afar: sábti
• Afrikaans: Saterdag
• Aghwan: 𐕐𐔰𐕌𐔱𐔰𐕜 (šambaṭ)
• Alabama: nihtahollosi
• Albanian: e shtunë
• Alutiiq: Maqineq
• American Sign Language: S@Side-PalmBack CirclesHoriz
• Amharic: ቅዳሜ (ḳədame)
• Arabic: السَّبْت‎ m (as-sabt), يَوْم السَّبْت‎ m (yawm as-sabt)

  Egyptian Arabic: السبت‎ m (es-sabt)

• Armenian: շաբաթ (šabatʿ)

  Old Armenian: շաբաթ (šabatʿ)

• Aromanian: sâmbãtã f
• Assamese: শনিবাৰ (xonibar)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܫܲܒܬܵܐ‎ (šabta)
• Asturian: sábadu m
• Atikamekw: mari kicikaw
• Avar: щамат (ššamat)
• Azerbaijani: şənbə
• Bashkir: шәмбе (şämbe)
• Basque: larunbat
• Bats: შაბათ (šabat)
• Belarusian: субо́та f (subóta)
• Bengali: শনিবার (śonibar)
• Blackfoot: to'tohtáátoyiiksistsiko
• Breton: Sadorn m
• Buginese: sattu
• Bulgarian: съ́бота f (sǎ́bota)
• Burmese: စနေ (ca.ne)
• Catalan: dissabte m
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵙⴰⴷ (sad)
• Chechen: шот (šot)
• Cherokee: ᏙᏓᏈᏕᎾ (dodaquidena), ᎤᎾᏙᏓᏈᏕᎾ (unadodaquidena)
• Chichewa: Loweruka
• Chickasaw: Nittak Hollo' Nakfish, Nittak Ishhanna'li'
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 星期六 (sing¹ kei⁴ luk⁶), 禮拜六／礼拜六 (lai⁵ baai³ luk⁶), 週六／周六 (zau¹ luk⁶)

  Dungan: щинчилю (xinčili͡u), либэлю (libeli͡u), шанбэ (šanbe)

  Mandarin: 星期六 (zh) (xīngqīliù), 禮拜六／礼拜六 (zh) (lǐbàiliù), 週六／周六 (zh) (zhōuliù)

  Min Nan: 禮拜六／礼拜六 (lé-pài-lio̍k), 拜六 (pài-lio̍k)

• Chuukese: Ammon
• Chuvash: шӑматкун (šămatkun)
• Cornish: Sadorn, de Sadorn, dy'Sadorn
• Corsican: sàbatu m
• Crimean Tatar: cumaertesi
• Czech: sobota f
• Dakota: Owaŋkayužažapi
• Dalmatian: sabata
• Danish: lørdag
• Dutch: zaterdag m
• Dzongkha: ཉི་མ (nyi ma)
• Esperanto: sabato
• Estonian: laupäev
• Farefare: Asibi
• Faroese: leygardagur m
• Fijian: siga Vakarauwai
• Finnish: lauantai
• French: samedi m
• Friulian: sabide, sàbide
• Galician: sábado m
• Georgian: შაბათი (šabati)
• German: Samstag m, Sonnabend m, Sabbat m, Satertag m (Westphalian, East Frisian)
• Greek: Σάββατο n (Sávvato)
• Greenlandic: arfininngorneq
• Gujarati: શનિવાર m (śanivār)
• Haitian Creole: samdi
• Hausa: Asabar f, Sati m
• Hawaiian: Pōʻaono
• Hebrew: שַׁבָּת‎ f (shabát)
• Hiligaynon: Sabadó
• Hindi: शनिवार m (śanivār), शनि m (śani), सनीचर m (sanīcar), हफ़्ता (haftā)
• Hungarian: szombat
• Hunsrik: Samstach m
• Icelandic: laugardagur m
• Ido: saturdio
• Inari Sami: lávurdâh
• Indonesian: hari sabtu
• Ingush: шоатта (šoatta)
• Interlingua: sabbato
• Irish: Satharn m
• Italian: sabato m
• Japanese: 土曜日 (どようび, doyōbi), 土曜 (どよう, doyō)
• Karelian: suovattu
• Kashmiri: بَٹہٕ وار‎ (baṭhụ vār)
• Kashubian: sobòta f
• Kazakh: сенбі (senbı)
• Khmer: ថ្ងៃសៅរ៍ (thngay saw)
• Kongo: Lumbu kia sabala
• Korean: 토요일(土曜日) (toyoil)
• Kumyk: сонгугюн (soñugün)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: شەمە‎ (ku) (şeme)

  Northern Kurdish: şemî (ku), şembî (ku)

• Kusaal: asibitɩ daat
• Kyrgyz: ишемби (işembi)
• Ladin: sabeda
• Lakota: Owáŋkayužažapi, Aŋpétu Šákpe
• Lao: ວັນເສົາ (wan sao), ເສົາ (sao)
• Latgalian: sastdīne f
• Latin: diēs Saturnī m or f, sabbatum n, sabbata n pl
• Latvian: sestdiena f
• Laz: საბატონი (sabaťoni)
• Lezgi: киш (kiš)
• Limburgish: zaoterdig, zamsdaag
• Lithuanian: šeštadienis m
• Livonian: pūolpǟva
• Lombard: sabet
• Louisiana Creole French: sanmdi, sammdi
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: zaoterdag (nds)

  German Low German: Sünnavend (nds) m, Sünnovend m, Saterdag m

• Luganda: Lwamukaaga
• Luxembourgish: Samschden m, Samschdeg m
• Lü: ᦞᧃᦉᧁ (vanṡaw)
• Macedonian: сабота f (sabota)
• Makasar: sattu
• Malay: Sabtu
• Malayalam: ശനിയാഴ്ച (śaniyāḻca)
• Maltese: is-Sibt
• Manchu: ᠪᠣᡳᡥᠣᠨ
  ᡠᠰᡳᠩᡤᡳ (boihon usinggi)
• Maori: Hātarei, Rāhoroi
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: шуматкече (šumatkeče), шумат (šumat)

• Mauritian Creole: samdi
• Mingrelian: საბატონი (sabaṭoni), შურიშხა (šurišxa)
• Mirandese: sábado
• Mohawk: entákta
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: бямба (bjamba) (written), хагас сайн өдөр (xagas sajn ödör) (popular), гаригийн зургаа (garigiin zurgaa) (Inner Mongolia)

  Mongolian: ᠪᠢᠮᠪᠠ (bimba), ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠰ
  ᠰᠠᠢᠢᠨ
  ᠡᠳᠦᠷ (qaɣas sai̯in edür), ᠭᠠᠷᠠᠭ ᠦᠨ
  ᠵᠢᠷᠭᠣᠭᠠᠨ (ɣaraɣ-ün ǰirɣoɣan)

• Moore: sibri
• Mòcheno: sònsta m
• Navajo: Yiską́ Damį́įgo
• Neapolitan: sàbbato, sàpato
• Norman: Sanm'di m
• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: söninj

  Mooring: saneene

  Sylt: Seninj

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lørdag (no) m

  Nynorsk: laurdag m

• Occitan: dissabte
• Ojibwe: ishkwaajanokii-giizhigad, giziibiigisaginige-giizhigad
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: сѫбота f (sǫbota), собота f (sobota)

• Old English: sæternesdæġ m
• Old Norse: laugardagr m
• Old Turkic: şanba
• Oriya: ଶନିବାର (śônibarô)
• Oromo: Sanbata
• Ossetian: сабат (sabat)
• Papiamentu: diasabra
• Pashto: شنبه‎ f (šanba), شنبې‎ m (šanbe), خالي ورځ‎ f (xāli wraj), خالي‎ f (xāli)
• Pennsylvania German: Samschdaag
• Persian: شنبه‎ (šanbe)
• Plautdietsch: Sinnowent
• Polish: sobota f
• Portuguese: sábado m
• Punjabi : ਸਨਿੱਚਰਵਾਰ (saniccarvār), ਸਨੀਵਾਰ (sanīvār), ਸ਼ਨਿੱਚਰਵਾਰ (śaniccarvār), ਸ਼ਨੀਵਾਰ (śanīvār)
• Quechua: k'uychichaw
• Romani: sàvato m
• Romanian: sâmbătă f
• Romansch: sonda f, sanda f, somda f
• Russian: суббо́та f (subbóta)
• Rwanda-Rundi: Kwagatandatu
• Sami:

  Northern: lávvadat

• Samoan: Aso To'ona'i
• Sardinian: sàbadu m, sàpadu, sàbudu
• Scots: Seturday
• Scottish Gaelic: Disathairne m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: субота f

  Roman: subota (sh) f

• Seychellois Creole: mardi
• Shona: Chitanhatu
• Sicilian: sàbbatu, sàbbitu, sabbatudìa
• Sindhi : ڇَنڇَرُ‎, شَنسچَرُ‎
• Sinhalese: සෙනසුරාදා (senasurādā)
• Skolt Sami: sueʹvet
• Slovak: sobota f
• Slovene: sobóta f
• Somali: Sabti
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: sobota f

  Upper Sorbian: sobota f

• Sotho: Moqebele
• Spanish: sábado m
• Svan: საფტინ (sapṭin)
• Swahili: Jumamosi
• Swazi: úm-gcibélo
• Swedish: lördag c
• Tabasaran: киш (kiš)
• Tagalog: Sabado, sabado
• Tahitian: mahama maa
• Tajik: шанбе (šanbe)
• Taos: sóbolu
• Tarantino: sàbbete
• Tatar: шимбә (şimbä)
• Tausug: Sabtuꞌ
• Tetum: loron-sábadu
• Thai: วันเสาร์ (wan sǎo), เสาร์ (sǎo)
• Tibetan: གཟའ་སྤེན་པ (gza' spen pa)
• Tigrinya: ቀዳም (ḳädam)
• Tok Pisin: Sarere
• Tongan: Tokonaki
• Tswana: Matlhatso
• Turkish: cumartesi
• Turkmen: şenbe, ruhgün
• Udmurt: кӧснунал (kösnunal)
• Ukrainian: субо́та f (subóta)
• Urdu: ہَفْتَہ‎ m (hafta), سَنِیچَر‎ m (sanīcar) (India), شَن٘بَہ‎‎ m (śaṉba) (rare)
• Uyghur: شەنبە‎ (shenbe)
• Uzbek: shanba
• Venetian: sabo m
• Vietnamese: thứ bảy
• Volapük: zädel, velüdel
• Walloon: semdi
• Welsh: dydd Sadwrn m
• West Frisian: sneon, saterdei
• Winnebago: Hąąp Hoinįge, Waruwįhąąp
• Wolof: Gaawu
• Xhosa: uMgqibelo
• Yakan: Sabtuꞌ
• Yakut: субуота (subuota)
• Yiddish: שבת‎ m (shabes)
• Yup'ik: Maqineq
• Zaghawa: sabit
• Zazaki: şeme (diq)
• Zulu: uMgqibelo

Adverb

Saturday (not comparable)

1. (US, Canada) On Saturday.

Translations

on Saturday

• American Sign Language: S@Side-PalmBack CirclesHoriz
• Breton: disadorn
• Bulgarian: в събота (v sǎbota)
• Dutch: op zaterdag
• Faroese: leygardagin
• Finnish: lauantai-
• French: samedi
• Galician: o sábado
• Georgian: შაბათს (šabats)
• Irish: Dé Sathairn
• Latvian: sestdien
• Old Irish: día Sathairn
• Polish: sobota
• Portuguese: sábado
• Romanian: sâmbătă, sâmbăta
• Romansch: sonda
• Russian: суббота (subbota)
• Slovak: v sobotu
• Tatar: шимбә (şimbä)
• Turkish: cumartesi
• Volapük: zädelo, velüdelo
• Welsh: ddydd Sadwrn

See also

• (days of the week) day of the week; Sunday,‎ Monday,‎ Tuesday,‎ Wednesday,‎ Thursday,‎ Friday,‎ Saturday ^{(Category: en:Days of the week) [edit]}