shabbos
noun/ˈʃɑːbɪs/ · /ˈʃɑːbəs/
Etymology Borrowed from Yiddish שבת (shabes), from Hebrew שַׁבָּת (shabát). Doublet of Shabbat and Sabbath.
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Judaism Shabbat or shabbat (the biblical seventh-day Sabbath).
- I told that Kraut a fuckin' thousand times, I don't roll on shabbos!1998, Joel and Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski (motion picture), spoken by Walter Sobchak (John Goodman):
- Many of the housemates had Jewish ancestry, but in lieu of Shabbos prayers they had invented their own secular rituals.2024 March 18, Andrew Marantz, “О.К., Doomer”, in The New Yorker, page 51:
- Derived terms
- shabbos goy, shabbos gentile, shomer shabbos, gut shabbos, gut shabbes