Meanings
shabbos1
nounshabbos (countable and uncountable, plural shabbosim or shabboses)
plural shabbosim · plural shabboses · alternative Shabbes · alternative shabbes · alternative Shabbos
- JudaismcountableuncountableShabbat or shabbat (the biblical seventh-day Sabbath).
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)1 more example
Many of the housemates had Jewish ancestry, but in lieu of Shabbos prayers they had invented their own secular rituals.
2024 March 18, Andrew Marantz, “О.К., Doomer”, in The New Yorker, page 51
Shabbos2
proper noun
- Alternative letter-case form of shabbos.
Origin
Cite this entry
APA
shabbos. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shabbos
MLA
“shabbos.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shabbos. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “shabbos,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shabbos.
Source: shabbos on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.