събота

Bulgarian

Alternative forms

• съ́мбута (sǎ́mbuta) — dialectal

Etymology

Inherited from Old Church Slavonic сѫбота (sǫbota), from Proto-Slavic *sǫbota, from Medieval Latin sabbatum (or from Vulgar Latin *sambatum), from Ancient Greek σάββᾱτον (sábbāton), from Hebrew שַׁבָּת (šabbāṯ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɤbotɐ]

• Audio (Standard Bulgarian):

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• Rhymes: -ɤbotɐ
• Syllabification^(key): съ‧бо‧та

Noun

съ́бота • (sǎ́bota) f (relational adjective съ́ботен)

1. Saturday (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 Jewish Sabbath; it follows Friday and precedes Sunday)

Declension

Declension of съ́бота

	singular	plural
indefinite	съ́бота sǎ́bota	съ́боти sǎ́boti
definite	съ́ботата sǎ́botata	съ́ботите sǎ́botite

See also

• days of the week: дни на седмицата (dni na sedmicata) (appendix): понеделник (ponedelnik) · вторник (vtornik) · сряда (srjada) · четвъртък (četvǎrtǎk) · петък (petǎk) · събота (sǎbota) · неделя (nedelja) ^[edit]

References

• “събота”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “събота”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010