shabbos

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Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Yiddish שבת (shabes), from Hebrew שַׁבָּת (shabát). Doublet of Shabbat and Sabbath.

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Noun[edit]

shabbos (countable and uncountable, plural shabbosim or shabboses)

  1. (Judaism) Shabbat or shabbat (the biblical seventh-day Sabbath).
    • 1998, Joel and Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski (motion picture), spoken by Walter Sobchak (John Goodman):
      I told that Kraut a fuckin' thousand times, I don't roll on shabbos!

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