sabbat
English edit
Etymology edit
From French sabbat (“Sabbath”).
Noun edit
sabbat (plural sabbats)
- witches' Sabbath
- 1965, Ruth E. St. Leger-Gordon, Witchcraft and Folklore of Dartmoor, page xviii. 146:
- Latter day witches, continuing the age-long cult, frequently made use of these old circles as meeting places, holding esbats, sabbats, and performing their ritual "ring" dances within the circumference of the tall granite stones.
Anagrams edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin sabbatum (“Sabbath”), from Ancient Greek σάββατον (sábbaton, “Sabbath”), from Hebrew שַׁבָּת (shabát, “Sabbath”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sabbat m (plural sabbats, diminutive sabbatje n)
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin 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.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sabbat m (plural sabbats)
- Sabbath, biblical seventh day
- Les juifs observent fort exactement le sabbat.
- Jews observe Shabbat very strictly.
- 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.
- ‘What are you carrying there, my son?’ ‘Toads which saw you at the sabbath, old witch,’ he replied.
- (Charles Deulin, Manneken-Pis)
- noisy meeting
- Ces ivrognes ont fait un terrible sabbat.
- Those drunkards made a terrible racket.
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → English: sabbat
See also edit
References edit
- “sabbat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Further reading edit
- “sabbat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Maltese edit
Root |
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s-b-t |
3 terms |
Etymology edit
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.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
sabbat (imperfect jsabbat)
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of sabbat | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
perfect | m | sabbatt | sabbatt | sabbat | sabbatna | sabbattu | sabbtu | |
f | sabbtet | |||||||
imperfect | m | nsabbat | ssabbat | jsabbat | nsabbtu | ssabbtu | jsabbtu | |
f | ssabbat | |||||||
imperative | sabbat | sabbtu |
Norman edit
Etymology edit
From Latin sabbata, sabbatum, from Ancient Greek σάββατον (sábbaton, “Sabbath”).
Noun edit
sabbat m (plural sabbats)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
sabbat m (definite singular sabbaten, indefinite plural sabbater, definite plural sabbatene)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “sabbat” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
sabbat m (definite singular sabbaten, indefinite plural sabbatar, definite plural sabbatane)
- Sabbath (as above)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “sabbat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sabbat m (plural sabbats)
- Alternative form of sabá
Swedish edit
Etymology 1 edit
Ultimately from Hebrew שַׁבָּת.
Noun edit
sabbat c
- Sabbath (Biblical seventh day of the week, observed in Judaism and by some Christians)
- Sabbath (Sunday, observed by the majority of Christians)
Declension edit
Declension of sabbat | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | sabbat | sabbaten | sabbater | sabbaterna |
Genitive | sabbats | sabbatens | sabbaters | sabbaternas |
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
sabbat