Shabbat
pronunciation
How to pronounce Shabbat in British English:
UK [ʃəˈbɑ:t]
How to pronounce Shabbat in American English:
US [ʃəˈbɑt, ˈʃɑbəs]
Word Origin
- Shabbat (n.)
- 1934, from Hebrew shabbat (see Sabbath). Earlier in English as Shabbos (1870), from Yiddish shabes.
Example
- 1. But you don 't observe shabbat .
- 2. Yosef had said during his weekly shabbat sermon that the palestinians , namely palestinian president mahmoud abbas , should perish from the world .
- 3. In the newly chic london suburb of willesden , for instance , a group of unaffiliated young jews recently spent friday night and saturday together in a " creative tefila shabbat " .
- 4. In kuwait , he had also befriended a jewish army doctor and , now that both were in iraq , joined him on friday nights to celebrate shabbat , learning words of hebrew in the process .
- 5. And now it 's a shabbat challah cutter , right ?