Saturday

English

Etymology

From Middle English Saterday, from 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. Compare West Frisian saterdei, Low German Saterdag, Dutch zaterdag.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsatədɛj/ or IPA^(key): /ˈsatədɪj/
• (US) enPR: săʹtər-dā, IPA^(key): /ˈsætɚdeɪ/ or enPR: săʹtər-di, IPA^(key): /ˈsætɚdi/

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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; observed as Sabbath in Judaism; it follows Friday and precedes Sunday.

Abbreviations

• Sat, Sat.

Hypernyms

• day

Hyponyms

Hyponyms of Saturday

• Black Saturday
• Dynamite Saturday

• Easter Saturday
• Egg Saturday

• Holy Saturday
• Hospital Saturday

• Little Saturday
• Pink Saturday

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Saturdaying
• Saturdayite

• Saturday-night
• Saturdays

• Saturday-sabbatharian

• Saturday-to-Monday

Related terms

Terms related to Saturday

• first Saturday devotions
• Saturday closing

• Saturday Night Live
• Saturday penny

• Saturday pops

• Third Saturday in October

Translations

day of the week

• Abkhaz: асабша (āsābšā)
• Afrikaans: Saterdag (af)
• Alabama: nihtahollosi
• Albanian: e shtunë
• 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)

• Armenian: շաբաթ (hy) (šabatʿ)

  Old Armenian: շաբաթ (šabatʿ)

• Asturian: sábadu (ast) m
• Atikamekw: mari kicikaw
• Avar: щамат (š̄amat)
• Azerbaijani: şənbə (az)
• Bashkir: шәмбе (šämbe)
• Basque: larunbat (eu)
• Belarusian: субо́та f (subóta)
• Bengali: শনিবার (bn) (śônibar)
• Blackfoot: to'tohtáátoyiiksistsiko
• Breton: Sadorn (br) m
• Bulgarian: събо́та (bg) f (sǎbóta)
• Burmese: စနေ (my) (ca.ne)
• Catalan: dissabte (ca) m
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵙⴰⴷ (sad)
• Chechen: шот (šot)
• Cherokee: ᎤᎾᏙᏓᏈᏕᎾ (unadodaquidena)
• Chichewa: Loweruka
• Chinese:

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

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

  Min Nan: 禮拜六, 礼拜六 (lé-pài-lio̍k), 拜六 (pài-lio̍k)

• Chuukese: Ammon
• Chuvash: шăматкун (šămatkun)
• Cornish: Sadorn, de Sadorn, dy'Sadorn
• Corsican: sàbatu m
• Crimean Tatar: cumaertesi
• Czech: sobota (cs) f
• Dakota: Owaŋkayužažapi
• Dalmatian: sabata
• Danish: lørdag (da)
• Dutch: zaterdag (nl) m
• Esperanto: sabato (eo)
• Estonian: laupäev (et)
• Faroese: leygardagur (fo) m
• Fijian: siga Vakarauwai
• Finnish: lauantai (fi)
• French: samedi (fr) m
• Friulian: sabide, sàbide
• Galician: sábado (gl) m
• Georgian: შაბათი (ka) (šabati)
• German: Samstag (de) m, Sonnabend (de) m, Sabbat (de) m, Satertag m (Westphalian, East Frisian)
• Greek: Σάββατο (el) n (Sávvato)
• Greenlandic: arfininngorneq
• Gujarati: શનિવાર (gu) m (śanivār)
• Haitian Creole: samdi
• Hausa: Asabar f, Sati m
• Hawaiian: Pōʻaono
• Hebrew: שַׁבָּת‎‎ (he) f (shabát)
• Hiligaynon: Sabadó
• Hindi: शनिवार (hi) m (śanivār)
• Hungarian: szombat (hu)
• Icelandic: laugardagur (is) m
• Ido: saturdio (io)
• Inari Sami: lávurdâh
• Indonesian: hari sabtu
• Ingush: шоатта (šoatta)
• Interlingua: sabbato
• Irish: Satharn (ga) m
• Italian: sabato (it) m
• Japanese: 土曜日 (ja) (どようび, doyōbi), 土曜 (どよう, doyō)
• Karelian: suovattu
• Kashubian: sobòta (csb) f
• Kazakh: сенбі (kk) (senbi)
• Khmer: ថ្ងៃសៅរ៍ (tŋay sav)
• Kongo: Lumbu kia sabala
• Korean: 토요일 (ko) (toyoil) (土曜日 (ko))
• Kurdish: şemî‎‎ (ku) (şemî)

  Kurmanji: şembî (ku)

  Sorani: شه‌مه‌‎‎ (ku) (şeme)

• Kyrgyz: ишемби (ky) (işembi)
• Ladin: sabeda
• Lao: ວັນເສົາ (lo) (wan sao), ເສົາ (lo) (sao)
• Latgalian: sastdīne f
• Latin: diēs Saturnī (la) m, Sabbata n pl
• Latvian: sestdiena f
• Limburgish: zaoterdig (li), zamsdaag (li)
• Lithuanian: šeštadienis (lt) m
• Livonian: pūolpǟva
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: zaoterdag (nds)

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

• Luganda: Lwamukaaga
• Luxembourgish: Samschden (lb) m, Samschdeg (lb) m

• Lü: ᦞᧃᦉᧁ (vanṡaw)
• Macedonian: сабота (mk) f (sabota)
• Malay: Sabtu (ms)
• Maltese: is-Sibt
• Manchu: ᠪᠣᡳᡥᠣᠨ
  ᡠᠰᡳᠩᡤᡳ (boihon usinggi)
• Maori: Hātarei, Rāhoroi
• Mingrelian: შურიშხა (šurišxa)
• Mirandese: sábado
• Mohawk: entákta
• Mongolian: бямба (mn) (bjamba)
• Navajo: Yiską́ Damį́įgo
• Neapolitan: sàbbato, sàpato
• Norman: Sanm'di m
• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: söninj

  Mooring: saneene

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lørdag (no) m

  Nynorsk: laurdag (nn) m

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

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

• Old English: Sæteresdæg m, Sæterndæg m, Sæternesdæg m
• Old Norse: laugardagr m
• Old Turkic: şanba‎‎
• Ossetian: сабат (sabat)
• Papiamentu: diasabra
• Pashto: شنبه‎‎ f (šanbá), شنبې‎‎ (ps) m (šanbé), خالي ورځ‎‎ (ps) f (xāli wráj), خالي‎‎ (ps) f (xālí)
• Pennsylvania German: Samschdaag
• Persian: شنبه‎‎ (fa) (šanbe)
• Polish: sobota (pl) f
• Portuguese: sábado (pt) m
• Quechua: k'uychichaw
• Romani: savato
• Romanian: sâmbătă (ro) f
• Romansch: sonda f, sanda f, somda f
• Russian: суббо́та (ru) f (subbóta)
• Rwanda-Rundi: Kwagatandatu
• Sami:

  Northern: lávvadat

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

  Cyrillic: субота f

  Roman: subota (sh) f

• Shona: Chitanhatu
• Sicilian: sàbbatu (scn), sàbbitu (scn), sabbatudìa (scn)
• Sinhalese: සෙනසුරාදා (si) (senasurādā)
• Skolt Sami: sueʹvet
• Slovak: sobota (sk) f
• Slovene: sobóta (sl) f
• Somali: Sabti
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: sobota f

  Upper Sorbian: sobota f

• Sotho: Moqebele
• Spanish: sábado (es) m
• Swahili: Jumamosi
• Swazi: úm-gcibélo
• Swedish: lördag (sv) c
• Tagalog: Sabado, sabado
• Tahitian: mahama maa
• Tajik: шанбе (tg) (šanbe)
• Taos: sóbolu
• Tarantino: sàbbete
• Tatar: шимбә (tt) (şimbä)
• Tetum: loron-sábadu
• Thai: วันเสาร์ (th) (wan sǎo), เสาร์ (th) (sǎo)
• Tibetan: གཟའ་སྤེན་པ (gza' spen pa)
• Tok Pisin: Sarere
• Tongan: Tokonaki
• Tswana: Matlhatso
• Turkish: cumartesi (tr)
• Turkmen: şenbe, ruhgün
• Ukrainian: субо́та (uk) f (subóta)
• Urdu: ہفتہ‎‎ (hafta)
• Uyghur: شەنبە‎‎ (ug) (shenbe)
• Uzbek: shanba (uz)
• Venetian: sabo (vec) m
• Vietnamese: thứ bảy (vi)
• Volapük: zädel (vo), velüdel
• Walloon: semdi (wa)
• Welsh: dydd Sadwrn (cy) m
• West Frisian: sneon (fy), saterdei (fy)
• Winnebago: Hąąp Hoinįge, Waruwįhąąp
• Wolof: Gaawu
• Xhosa: uMgqibelo
• Yiddish: שבת‎‎ (yi) m (shabes)
• Yup'ik: Maqineq
• Zazaki: şeme
• Zulu: ngoMgqibelo

Adverb

Saturday (not comparable)

1. (US, Canada) On Saturday.

Translations

on Saturday

• American Sign Language: S@Side-PalmBack CirclesHoriz
• Breton: disadorn (br)
• Dutch: op zaterdag
• Faroese: leygardagin
• Galician: o sábado
• Irish: Dé Sathairn (ga)
• Latvian: sestdien

• Old Irish: día Sathairn
• Portuguese: sábado (pt)
• Romanian: sâmbătă (ro), sâmbăta (ro)
• Romansch: sonda
• Slovak: v sobotu
• Turkish: cumartesi (tr)
• Volapük: zädelo, velüdelo

See also

• (days of the week) day of the week; Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday