sabbat

From French sabbat (“Sabbath”).

sabbat (plural sabbats)

1. witches' Sabbath
   • 1965, Ruth E. St. Leger-Gordon, Witchcraft and Folklore of Dartmoor, page xviii. 146:

     Latter day witches, continuing the age-long cult, frequently made use of these old circles as meeting places, holding esbats, sabbats, and performing their ritual "ring" dances within the circumference of the tall granite stones.

• abbats, batabs

Borrowed from Latin sabbatum (“Sabbath”), from Ancient Greek σάββατον (sábbaton, “Sabbath”), from Hebrew שַׁבָּת (shabát, “Sabbath”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑ.bɑt/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: sab‧bat

sabbat m (plural sabbats, diminutive sabbatje n)

1. Sabbath

• sjabbat
• sjabbes

• sabbatjaar
• sabbatsheiliging
• sabbatsrust
• sabbatschennis

• Negerhollands: sabbath
• → Papiamentu: sabbat (dated)

• chabbat, shabbat

Borrowed from Latin sabbatum, from Ancient Greek σάββατον (sábbaton, “Sabbath”), from Hebrew שבת (shabát, “Sabbath”).
In regards to the semantic evolution to "witches' meeting" compare with ramdam, brouhaha. See also samedi.

• IPA^(key): /sa.ba/

• Audio

  (file)

• Homophone: Saba

sabbat m (plural sabbats)

1. Sabbath, biblical seventh day

   Les juifs observent fort exactement le sabbat.

   Jews observe Shabbat very strictly.

2. witches' Sabbath, meeting of witches at midnight

   Qu’est-ce que vous portez donc là, mon petit fieu ? — Des crapauds qui t’ont vue au sabbat, vieille sorcière, répondit celui-ci.

   ‘What are you carrying there, my son?’ ‘Toads which saw you at the sabbath, old witch,’ he replied.

   (Charles Deulin, Manneken-Pis)

3. noisy meeting

   Ces ivrognes ont fait un terrible sabbat.

   Those drunkards made a terrible racket.

• sabbataire
• sabbatique
• sabbatiser
• sabbatisme
• sabbatiste

• → English: sabbat

• samedi

• “sabbat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• “sabbat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Arabic سَبَّتَ (sabbata), intensive of سَبَتَ (sabata, “to cut, smite, cast down”). The root partly overlaps with س ب ط (s-b-ṭ), which could explain the Maltese a-vocalism. It is likely that the verb was later associated with and influenced by the unrelated Sicilian sbattiri, Italian sbattere.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsab.bat/

sabbat (imperfect jsabbat)

1. to bang, thump, stamp

From Latin sabbata, sabbatum, from Ancient Greek σάββατον (sábbaton, “Sabbath”).

sabbat m (plural sabbats)

1. (Jersey) witches' Sabbath

From Hebrew שבת (shabát).

sabbat m (definite singular sabbaten, indefinite plural sabbater, definite plural sabbatene)

1. Sabbath, the Biblical seventh day of the week, observed as a day of rest in Judaism

• heksesabbat

• “sabbat” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Hebrew שבת (shabát).

sabbat m (definite singular sabbaten, indefinite plural sabbatar, definite plural sabbatane)

1. Sabbath (as above)

• heksesabbat

• “sabbat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

sabbat m (plural sabbats)

1. Alternative form of sabá

Ultimately from Hebrew שַׁבָּת.

sabbat c

1. Sabbath (Biblical seventh day of the week, observed in Judaism and by some Christians)
2. Sabbath (Sunday, observed by the majority of Christians)

• sabbatsår

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

sabbat

1. supine of sabba