Saturday

English

Etymology

From Middle English Saterday, from Old English sæterdæġ, earlier sæternesdæġ (“Saterday”, literally “Saturn's day”), from Proto-West Germanic *Sāturnas dag; a translation of Latin diēs Saturnī, equivalent to Saturn +‎ day. Compare West Frisian saterdei (“Saturday”), Dutch zaterdag (“Saturday”), German Low German Saterdag (“Saturday”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: săʹtər-dā, săʹtər-di
• (UK)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsæt.ə.deɪ/, /ˈsæt.ə.di/

    • Audio (UK, female voice):

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    • Audio (UK, male voice):

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  • (Northumbria) IPA^(key): /ˈsæt.ə.də/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsæt.ɚ.deɪ/, [ˈsæɾ.ɚ.deɪ̯], /ˈsæt.ɚ.di/, [ˈsæɾ.ɚ.di]

  • Audio (US):

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• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈsæt.ə.dæɪ/
• (Singapore) IPA^(key): /ˈsɑːt.ə.deɪ/, /ˈsæ-/
• Hyphenation: Sat‧ur‧day
• Rhymes: -ætədeɪ, -ætədi, -ætəɹdeɪ

Noun

Saturday (plural Saturdays)

2. 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.

   Synonym: (Quakerism) Seventh Day

   • 2023 April 27, Laura He, “China may have to bail out one of its poorest provinces”, in CNN Business‎^[1], archived from the original on 28 May 2023:

     The Beijing-based firm — one of four funds created by the Chinese government in 1999 to process the bad loans of state-owned banks — announced Saturday that it would send a group of 50 experts to the province to help it “prevent and defuse risks” and “bail out” the real estate industry.

   • 2025 February 1, Kevin Liptak, “With stiff tariffs he promised now in place, Trump opens a new trade war”, in CNN‎^[2], archived from the original on 5 August 2025:

     Saturday’s tariffs are unlikely to be Trump’s last. The president said himself said in the Oval Office that additional tariffs could come by mid-February on chips, pharmaceuticals, steel, aluminum, copper, oil and gas imports – along with tariffs on the European Union – all threats that few would discount given his willingness to follow through on the North American and China tariffs on Saturday.

Synonyms

• Sat, Sat. (abbreviations)

Symbols

• S, Sa
• ♄ (archaic)

Hypernyms

• day

Hyponyms

• Black Saturday
• Caturday
• Dynamite Saturday
• Easter Saturday
• Egg Saturday
• Holy Saturday
• Hospital Saturday
• Little Saturday
• Pink Saturday
• Super Saturday
• Whit Saturday

Derived terms

• first Saturday devotions
• Fraturday
• Saturdaily
• Saturday closing
• Saturdaying
• Saturdayish
• Saturdayite
• Saturday-morning cartoon
• Saturdayness
• Saturday-night
• Saturday-night pistol
• Saturday-night special
• Saturday penny
• Saturday pops
• Saturdays (adverb)
• Saturday Sabbatarian
• Saturday soup
• Saturday-to-Monday
• splatterday
• Third Saturday in October
• week of Saturdays

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: Sarere

Translations

day of the week

• Abkhaz: асабша (asabŝa)
• Afar: sábti
• Afrikaans: Saterdag (af)
• Aghwan: 𐕐𐔰𐕌𐔱𐔰𐕜 (šambaṭ)
• Akan: Memenada
• Alabama: nihtahollosi
• Albanian: e shtunë (sq)
• Alutiiq: Maqineq
• American Sign Language: S@Side-PalmBack CirclesHoriz
• Amharic: ቅዳሜ (ḳədame)
• Arabic: السَّبْت (ar) m (as-sabt), يَوْم السَّبْت m (yawm as-sabt)

  Egyptian Arabic: السبت m (es-sabt)

• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܫܲܒܬܵܐ (šabta)

• Armenian: շաբաթ (hy) (šabatʻ)

  Old Armenian: շաբաթ (šabatʻ)

• Aromanian: sâmbãtã f
• Assamese: শনিবাৰ (xonibar)
• Asturian: sábadu (ast) m
• Avar: щамат (ššamat)
• Azerbaijani: şənbə (az)
• Bangi: sabala
• Bashkir: шәмбе (şämbi)
• Basque: larunbat (eu)
• Bats: შაბათ (šabat)
• Belarusian: субо́та f (subóta)
• Bengali: শনিবার (bn) (śonibar)
• Bikol:

  Central Bikol: Sabado

• Blackfoot: to'tohtáátoyiiksistsiko
• Breton: Sadorn (br) m
• Buginese: sattu
• Bulgarian: съ́бота (bg) f (sắbota)
• Burmese: စနေ (my) (ca.ne)
• Catalan: dissabte (ca) m
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵙⴰⴷ (sad)
• Chechen: шот (šot)
• Cherokee: ᏙᏓᏈᏕᎾ (dodaquidena), ᎤᎾᏙᏓᏈᏕᎾ (unadodaquidena)
• Chichewa: Loweruka
• Chickasaw: Nittak Hollo' Nakfish, Nittak Ishhanna'li'
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 星期六 (sing¹ kei⁴ luk⁶), 禮拜六 / 礼拜六 (lai⁵ baai³ luk⁶), 週六 / 周六 (zau¹ luk⁶)

  Dungan: щинчилю (xinqiliu), либэлю (libeliu), шанбэ (šanbe)

  Hakka: 拜六 (pai-liuk)

  Hokkien: 禮拜六 / 礼拜六 (lé-pài-lio̍k), 拜六 (pài-lio̍k)

  Mandarin: 星期六 (zh) (xīngqīliù), 禮拜六 / 礼拜六 (zh) (lǐbàiliù), 週六 / 周六 (zh) (zhōuliù)

  Wu: 禮拜六 / 礼拜六 (⁶li-pa-loq)

• Choctaw: Satʋti
• Chuukese: Ammon
• Chuvash: шӑматкун (šămatkun)
• Circassian:

  East Circassian: щэбэт (kbd) (śɛbɛt)

  West Circassian: шэмбэт (šɛmbɛt)

• Coptic: ⲥⲁⲃⲃⲁⲧⲟⲛ m (sabbaton)
• Cornish: Sadorn, de Sadorn, dy'Sadorn
• Corsican: sàbatu m
• Cree:

  Atikamekw: mari kicikaw

• Crimean Tatar: cumaertesi
• Czech: sobota (cs) f
• Dakota: Owaŋkayužažapi
• Dalmatian: sabata
• Danish: lørdag (da)
• Dutch: zaterdag (nl) m
• Dzongkha: ཉི་མ (nyi ma)
• Emilian: sâbet m
• Erzya: шлямочи (šľamoči), субута (subuta)
• Esperanto: sabato (eo)
• Estonian: laupäev (et)
• Farefare: Asibi
• Faroese: leygardagur (fo) m
• Fijian: siga Vakarauwai
• Finnish: lauantai (fi)
• French: samedi (fr) m
• Frisian:

  North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: söninj

  Mooring: saneene

  Sylt: Seninj

  West Frisian: sneon (fy), saterdei (fy)

• Friulian: sabide, sàbide
• Galician: sábado (gl) m
• Georgian: შაბათი (ka) (šabati)
• German: Samstag (de) m, Sonnabend (de) m, Sabbat (de) m, Satertag (de) m (Westphalian, East Frisian)
• Greek: Σάββατο (el) n (Sávvato)
• Greenlandic: arfininngorneq
• Guarani:

  Paraguayan Guarani: ^{(please verify)} arapokõi

• Gujarati: શનિવાર (gu) m (śanivār)
• Haitian Creole: samdi
• Hausa: Asabar (ha) f, Sati (ha) m
• Hawaiian: Pōʻaono
• Hebrew: שַׁבָּת (he) f (shabát)
• Hiligaynon: Sabadó
• Hindi: शनिवार (hi) m (śanivār), शनि (hi) m (śani), सनीचर (hi) m (sanīcar)
• Hungarian: szombat (hu)
• Hunsrik: Samstach m
• Icelandic: laugardagur (is) m
• Ido: saturdio (io)
• Indonesian: Sabtu (id)
• Ingrian: soovotta, laukopäivä
• Ingush: шоатта (šoatta)
• Interlingua: sabbato (ia)
• Irish: Satharn (ga) m
• Italian: sabato (it) m
• Japanese: 土曜日 (ja) (どようび, doyōbi), 土曜 (ja) (どよう, doyō)
• Javanese: ꦱꦼꦠꦸ (Setu), ꦱꦼꦥ꧀ꦠꦸ (Septu)
• Kalmyk: бембә өдр (bembä ödr)
• Karelian: suovattu
• Kashmiri: بَٹہٕ وار (ks) (baṭhụ vār)
• Kashubian: sobòta (csb) f
• Kazakh: сенбі (kk) (senbi)
• Khmer: ថ្ងៃសៅរ៍ (thngay saw)
• Kongo: Lumbu kia sabala
• Korean: 토요일(土曜日) (ko) (toyoil), 토요(土曜) (ko) (toyo)
• Kumyk: сонгугюн (soñugün)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: شەممە (ckb) (şemme), شەمموو (ckb) (şemmû)

  Northern Kurdish: şemî (ku), şembî (ku)

• Kusaal: asibitɩ daat
• Kyrgyz: ишемби (ky) (işembi)
• Ladin: sabeda
• Lakota: Owáŋkayužažapi, Aŋpétu Šákpe
• Lao: ວັນເສົາ (lo) (wan sao), ເສົາ (lo) (sao)
• Latgalian: sastdīne f
• Latin: diēs Saturnī (la) m or f, sabbatum n, sabbata n pl
• Latvian: sestdiena (lv) f
• Laz: საბატონი (sabaťoni)
• Lezgi: киш (kiš)
• Ligurian: sâbbo
• Limburgish: zaoterdig (li), zamsdaag
• Lingala: sabala
• Lithuanian: šeštadienis (lt) m
• Livonian: pūolpǟva
• Lombard: sabet (lmo)
• Louisiana Creole: sanmdi, sammdi
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: zaoterdag (nds)

  German Low German: Sünnavend (nds) m, Sünnovend m, Saterdag m

• Lü: ᦞᧃᦉᧁ (vanṡaw)
• Luganda: Lwamukaaga
• Luxembourgish: Samschden (lb) m, Samschdeg (lb) m
• Macedonian: сабота (mk) f (sabota)
• Makasar: sattu
• Malay: Sabtu (ms)
• Malayalam: ശനിയാഴ്ച (ml) (śaniyāḻca)
• Maltese: is-Sibt
• Manchu: ᠪᠣᡳᡥᠣᠨ
  ᡠᠰᡳᠩᡤᡳ (boihon usinggi)
• Manx: Jesarn
• Māori: Hātarei, Rāhoroi
• Mapudungun: safadu antü
• Marathi: शनिवार (mr) m (śanivār)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: шуматкече (šumatkeče), шумат (šumat)

• Mauritian Creole: samdi
• Mingrelian: საბატონი (sabaṭoni), შურიშხა (šurišxa)
• Mirandese: sábado
• Mizo: Inrinni
• Mòcheno: sònsta m
• Mohawk: entákta
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: бямба (mn) (bjamba) (written), хагас сайн өдөр (xagas sajn ödör) (popular), гаригийн зургаа (garigiin zurgaa) (China)

  Mongolian script: ᠪᠢᠮᠪᠠ (bimba), ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠰ
  ᠰᠠᠢᠢᠨ
  ᠡᠳᠦᠷ (qaɣas saiin edür), ᠭᠠᠷᠠᠭ ᠦᠨ
  ᠵᠢᠷᠭᠣᠭᠠᠨ (ɣaraɣ-ün ǰirɣoɣan)

• Moore: sibri
• Navajo: Yiską́ Damį́įgo
• Neapolitan: sàbbato, sàpato
• Niuean: Aho Faiumu
• Norman: Sanm'di m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lørdag (no) m

  Nynorsk: laurdag (nn) m

• Occitan: dissabte (oc)
• Odia: ଶନିବାର (śanibāra)
• Ojibwe: ishkwaajanokii-giizhigad, giziibiigisaginige-giizhigad
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: сѫбота f (sǫbota), собота f (sobota)

• Old English: sæternesdæġ m
• Old Norse: laugardagr m
• Oromo: Sanbata
• Ossetian: сабат (sabat)
• Pannonian Rusyn: собота f (sobota)
• Papiamentu: diasabra
• Pashto: شنبه f (šanba), شنبې (ps) m (šanbe), خالي ورځ (ps) f (xāli wraj), خالي (ps) f (xāli)
• Pennsylvania German: Samschdaag
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: شَنْبِه (šanbe)

• Plautdietsch: Sinnowent
• Polish: sobota (pl) f
• Portuguese: sábado (pt) m
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਸਨਿੱਚਰਵਾਰ (pa) m (saniccarvār), ਸਨੀਵਾਰ m (sanīvār), ਸ਼ਨਿੱਚਰਵਾਰ (pa) m (śaniccarvār), ਸ਼ਨੀਵਾਰ m (śanīvār)

• Quechua: k'uychichaw
• Rapa Nui: mahana hopu
• Romani: sàvato m
• Romanian: sâmbătă (ro) f
• Romansh: sonda f, sanda f, somda f
• Russian: суббо́та (ru) f (subbóta)
• Rwanda-Rundi: Kwagatandatu
• Sami:

  Inari Sami: lávurdâh

  Kildin Sami: сӯвведҍ (sūvv’ed’)

  Northern Sami: lávvadat

  Skolt Sami: sueʹvet

• Samoan: Aso To'ona'i
• Sanskrit: शनिवार (sa) m (śanivāra), स्थिरवार m (sthiravāra)
• Sardinian: sàbadu m, sàpadu, sàbudu
• Scots: Seturday
• Scottish Gaelic: Disathairne (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: су̀бота (sh) f

  Latin: sùbota (sh) f

• Shona: Chitanhatu
• Sicilian: sàbbatu (scn), sàbbitu (scn), sabbatudìa (scn)
• Sindhi: ڇَنڇَرُ (sd) (chãcharu), شَنسچَرُ (śãscaru)
• Sinhalese: සෙනසුරාදා (si) (senasurādā)
• Slovak: sobota (sk) f
• Slovene: sobóta (sl) f
• Somali: Sabti
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: sobota f

  Upper Sorbian: sobota f

• Sotho: Moqebele
• Southern Altai: суббот (subbot)
• Spanish: sábado (es) m
• Sranan Tongo: satra
• Svan: საფტინ (sapṭin)
• Swahili: Jumamosi
• Swazi: úm-gcibélo
• Swedish: lördag (sv) c
• Tabasaran: киш (kiš)
• Tagalog: Sabado
• Tahitian: mahama maa
• Tajik: шанбе (tg) (šanbe)
• Talysh: şambə
• Tamil: சனி (ta) (caṉi), சனிக்கிழமை (ta) (caṉikkiḻamai)
• Taos: sóbolu
• Tarantino: sàbbete
• Tat: şəmbi
• Tatar: шимбә (tt) (şimbä)
• Tausug: Sabtuꞌ
• Tetum: loron-sábadu
• Thai: วันเสาร์ (th) (wan sǎo), เสาร์ (th) (sǎo)
• Tibetan: གཟའ་སྤེན་པ (gza' spen pa)
• Tigrinya: ቀዳም (ti) (ḳädam)
• Tok Pisin: Sarere (tpi)
• Tokelauan: Ahotōnai
• Tongan: Tokonaki
• Tswana: Matlhatso (tn)
• Turkish: cumartesi (tr)
• Turkmen: şenbe, ruhgün
• Udmurt: кӧснунал (kösnunal)
• Ukrainian: субо́та (uk) f (subóta)
• Urdu: ہَفْتَہ (ur) m (hafta), سَنِیچَر m (sanīcar), شَن٘بَہ m (śamba) (rare)
• Uyghur: شەنبە (ug) (shenbe)
• Uzbek: shanba (uz)
• Vai: ꕢꔤꔐ (Sáide)
• Venetan: sabo (vec) m
• Vietnamese: thứ bảy (vi)
• Volapük: zädel (vo), velüdel
• Walloon: semdi (wa)
• Welsh: dydd Sadwrn (cy) m
• Winnebago: Hąąp hoinįge, Waruwį Hąąp
• Wolof: Gaawu
• Xhosa: uMgqibelo
• Yakan: Sabtuꞌ
• Yakut: субуота (subuota)
• Yiddish: שבת (yi) m (shabes)
• Yup'ik: Maqineq
• Zaghawa: sabit
• Zazaki: şeme (diq)
• Zulu: uMgqibelo

Adverb

Saturday (not comparable)

1. (US, Canada, informal in UK) On Saturday.

Translations

on Saturday

• American Sign Language: S@Side-PalmBack CirclesHoriz
• Breton: disadorn (br)
• Bulgarian: в събота (v săbota)
• Dutch: 's zaterdags (nl), zaterdags (nl), op zaterdag
• Esperanto: sabate
• Faroese: leygardagin
• Finnish: lauantaina
• French: samedi (fr)
• Galician: o sábado
• Georgian: შაბათს (šabats)
• Irish: Dé Sathairn (ga)

  Old Irish: día Sathairn

• Latvian: sestdien
• Manx: Jesarn
• Polish: sobota (pl)
• Portuguese: sábado (pt)
• Romanian: sâmbătă (ro), sâmbăta (ro)
• Romansh: sonda
• Russian: суббота (ru) (subbota)
• Slovak: v sobotu
• Tatar: шимбә (tt) (şimbä)
• Turkish: cumartesi (tr)
• Volapük: zädelo, velüdelo
• Welsh: ddydd Sadwrn

Verb

Saturday (third-person singular simple present Saturdays, present participle Saturdaying, simple past and past participle Saturdayed)

1. (uncommon, creative) To spend Saturday (at a place or doing an activity).
   • 1913, Bell Telephone News‎^[3], volume 3, page 5:

     Mr. Angus Hibbard, of New York, Fridayed and Saturdayed in Chicago, for the show and banquet.

See also

• days of the week (appendix): Sunday · Monday · Tuesday · Wednesday · Thursday · Friday · Saturday ^[edit]

Middle English

Noun

Saturday

1. alternative form of Saterday