Saturday

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Etymology

Old English Sæternesdæg (“day of Saturn”), from Sætern (“Saturn”), from Latin Saturnus (“the god of agriculture”), possibly from Etruscan, + Old English dæg (“day”); a translation of Latin dies Saturni

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈsætədeɪ/, SAMPA: /"s{t@deI/ or IPA: /ˈsætədi/, SAMPA: /"s{t@di/
• (US) enPR: săʹtər-dā, IPA: /ˈsætɚdeɪ/, SAMPA: /"s{t@`deI/ or enPR: săʹtər-di, IPA: /ˈsætɚdi/, SAMPA: /"s{t@`di/

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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; the Biblical seventh day of the week, observed as Sabbath or "Day of Rest"; it follows Friday and precedes Sunday.

Derived terms

Black Saturday Dynamite Saturday Easter Saturday Egg Saturday first Saturday devotions Holy Saturday Hospital Saturday Little Saturday Pink Saturday Sat, Sat.

Saturday closing Saturdaying Saturdayite Saturday-night Saturday Night Live Saturday penny Saturday pops Saturdays Saturday-sabbatharian Saturday-to-Monday Third Saturday in October

Translations

day of the week

Abkhaz: асабш (asabš) Afrikaans: Saterdag Alabama: nihtahollosi Albanian: e shtunë Alutiiq: Maqineq American Sign Language: S@Side-PalmBack CirclesHoriz Amharic: ቅዳሜ (kidami) Arabic: السبت (as-sábt) Egyptian Arabic: السبت (esabt) m. Armenian: շաբաթ (hy) (šabat') Avar: щамат (av) Azeri: şənbə Bashkir: Шәмбе (şembi) Basque: larunbat Belarusian: субота (be) f. Blackfoot: to'tohtáátoyiiksistsiko Bosnian: subota (bs) f. Breton: Sadorn m., disadorn adverb Bulgarian: събота (bg) (săbóta) f. Burmese: စနေ (my) (săne) Catalan: dissabte (ca) m. Chechen: шот (šot) Cherokee: ᎤᎾᏙᏓᏈᏕᎾ (unadodawidena) Chinese: 星期六 (xīngqī liù) Chuvash: шăматкун (şӓmatkun) Corsican: sàbatu Croatian: subota (hr) f. Czech: sobota (cs) f. Dakota: Owaŋkayužažapi Danish: lørdag (da) Dutch: zaterdag (nl) m. Esperanto: sabato (eo) Estonian: laupäev (et) Faroese: leygardagur (fo) m. Finnish: lauantai (fi) French: samedi (fr) m. Georgian: შაბათი (ka) (šabat'i) German: Samstag (de) m., Sonnabend (de) m., Sabbat (de) m. Greek: Σάββατο (Sávvato) n. Greenlandic: arfininngorneq (kl) Haitian Creole: samdi Hawaiian: Pōʻaono Hebrew: שבת (šabát) Hindi: शनिवार (shanivār) Hungarian: szombat (hu) Icelandic: laugardagur (is) m. Ido: saturdio Indonesian: hari sabtu Interlingua: sabbato Irish: Satharn (ga) m. Italian: sabato (it) m. Japanese: 土曜日 (どようび, doyōbi) Kashubian: sobòta f. Kazakh: сенбі (kk) Khmer: ថ្ងៃសៅរ៏ (tngai sao) Kinyarwanda: Kwagatandatu Kongo: Lumbu kia sabala Korean: 토요일 (ko) (toyoil) Kurdish: شه‌مه‌ (ku) Kyrgyz: Ишемби (ky) (işembi) Lao: ວັນເສົາ (lo) (wan-sao) Latin: dies Saturni, Sabbata n. pl. Latvian: sestdiena (lv) Lithuanian: šeštadienis (lt) m. Livonian: pūolpǟva

Lower Sorbian: sobota f. Luganda: Lwamukaaga Luxembourgish: Samschden (lb) m., Samschdeg (lb) m. Macedonian: сабота (mk) (sábota) f. Malay: Sabtu (ms) Maltese: is-Sibt (mt) Maori: Hātarei, Rāhoroi Navajo: Yiską́ Damį́įgo Neapolitan: sàbbato, sàpato Norwegian: Bokmål: lørdag (no) Nynorsk: laurdag (nn) Occitan: dissabte Ojibwe: ishkwaajanokii-giizhigad, giziibiigisaginige-giizhigad Old English: Sæteresdæg (ang) m., Sæterndæg (ang) m., Sæternesdæg (ang) m. Old Norse: laugardagr m. Old Turkic: şanba Ossetian: сабат (sábat) Papiamentu: diasabra Persian: شنبه (fa) (šanbeh) Polish: sobota (pl) f. Portuguese: sábado (pt) m. Romani: savato Romanian: sâmbătă (ro) f. Romansch: sonda (rm) f., sanda (rm) f., somda (rm) f. Russian: суббота (ru) (subbóta) f. Sami: Northern: lávvadat Scots: Disathairne Scottish Gaelic: Di-sathurna (gd) m. Serbian: субота (sr) f., subota (sr) f. Shona: Chitanhatu (sn) Skolt Sami: sueˊvet Slovak: sobota (sk) f. Slovene: sobota (sl) f. Somali: Sabti Sotho: Moqebele Spanish: sábado (es) m. Swahili: Jumamosi (sw) Swati: úm-gcibélo (ss) Swedish: lördag (sv) c. Tagalog: Sabado Taos: sóbolu Tarantino: sàbbete Tatar: шимбә (tt) Thai: วันเสาร์ (wan sáo) Tok Pisin: Sarere (tpi) Tswana: Matlhatso (tn) Turkish: cumartesi (tr) Turkmen: şenbe (tk), ruhgün (tk) Ukrainian: субота (uk) (subóta) f. Upper Sorbian: sobota f. Urdu: ہفتہ‌ (hafta) Uyghur: شەنبە (ug) Uzbek: shanba (uz) Venetian: sabo m. Vietnamese: thứ bảy (vi) Volapük: zädel (vo), velüdel (vo) Welsh: dydd Sadwrn (cy) m. West Frisian: sneon, saterdei Wolof: Gaawu Xhosa: uMgqibelo Yiddish: שבת (shabes) Zulu: ngoMgqibelo

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Tibetan: གཟའ་སྤེན་པ་

Adverb

Saturday (not comparable)

1. on Saturday

Translations

on Saturday

American Sign Language: S@Side-PalmBack CirclesHoriz Dutch: op zaterdag (nl) Irish: Dé Sathairn (ga) Latvian: sestdien (lv) Old Irish: día Sathairn

Romanian: sâmbătă (ro), sâmbăta (ro) Romansch: sonda (rm) Turkish: cumartesi (tr) Volapük: zädelo (vo), velüdelo (vo)

See also

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