Noun: sabbat
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | sabbat |
| Plural m | sabbats |
Sample Sentences
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Les juifs observent fort exactement le sabbat. (Jews observe Shabbat very strictly.)
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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.)
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Ces ivrognes ont fait un terrible sabbat. (Those drunkards made a terrible racket.)
Nouns inflected like sabbat
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Borrowed from Latin sabbatum, from Ancient Greek σάββατον (sábbaton, “Sabbath”), from Hebrew שבת (shabát, “Sabbath”).
2. In regards to the semantic evolution to "witches' meeting" compare with ramdam, brouhaha. See also samedi. See: Latin Nouns '
sabbatum', Ancient Greek Nouns '
σάββατον'.
Verbs referencing "sabbat"
Romanian Nouns
sabat, English Nouns
sabbat.
Translations