shabbos · noun — shabbat or shabbat (the biblical seventh-day Sabbath). It carries an Arena rating of 1576, earned across 10 head-to-head judged battles.
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Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, shabbos ranks #3,819 of 17,163 for Most Beautiful Words, #4,255 of 17,146 for Most Storied Words, #6,094 of 17,165 for Most Satisfying to Say, #8,038 of 17,163 for Most Sublime Words.
shabbos is pronounced /ˈʃɑːbɪs/.
Why “shabbos” is a great word
The Jewish Sabbath, a day of rest and religious observance from Friday evening to Saturday night. Borrowed from Yiddish *shabes*, from Hebrew *shabát* ("Sabbath, rest"). Doublet of Shabbat and Sabbath. Unlike *Shabbat* (the crisp, Israeli-Hebrew standard) or *Sabbath* (the broad, Anglicized category), *shabbos* is the word of the kitchen and the hearth, of diaspora and intimate tradition. It is the smell of braided challah under a cloth, the tactile silence of a phone left untouched, and the particular golden light falling across a table set for feast and prayer—a weekly sanctuary carved not from stone, but from time itself.
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Etymology
Borrowed from Yiddish שבת (shabes), from Hebrew שַׁבָּת (shabát). Doublet of Shabbat and Sabbath.
noun
- Shabbat or shabbat (the biblical seventh-day Sabbath).e.g.“I told that Kraut a fuckin' thousand times, I don't roll on shabbos!” — 1998, Joel and Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski (motion picture), spoken by Walter Sobchak (John Goodman):
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