shabbos
/ˈʃɑːbɪs/
shabbos noun: shabbat or shabbat (the biblical seventh-day Sabbath).
Noun
shabbos (countable and uncountable, plural shabbosim or shabboses)
- 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
Proper noun capitalized: Shabbos
Shabbos
- Alternative letter-case form of shabbos.
Forms of shabbos
| plural | shabbosim |
|---|---|
| plural | shabboses |
| alternative form | Shabbes |
| alternative form | shabbes |
| alternative form | Shabbos |
Origin of shabbos
Borrowed from Yiddish שבת (shabes), from Hebrew שַׁבָּת (shabát). Doublet of Shabbat and Sabbath.
Words formed from shabbos
- shabbos goy
- shabbos gentile
- shomer shabbos
- gut shabbos
- gut shabbes
Phrases with shabbos
Questions about shabbos
- What does shabbos mean?
- Shabbos means shabbat or shabbat (the biblical seventh-day Sabbath).
- What part of speech is shabbos?
- Shabbos can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce shabbos?
- Shabbos is pronounced /ˈʃɑːbɪs/.
- What is the plural of shabbos?
- The plural of shabbos is shabbosim.
Words near shabbos in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: shabbos (page history and authors); Shabbos (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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