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n. The Jewish Sabbath; Saturday.
"I will be going to temple for Shabbat services this Friday night."
"Where will you be spending Shabbos?"
"What time does Shabbat come in this Friday?" (Glinert)
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Heb. שַׁבָּת shabat (pl. שַׁבָּתוֹת shabatot) > Yid. שבת shabes (pl. שבתים shabosim)
Shabat, Shabbos, Shabos, Shabbas, Shabas, Shabbes, Shabes
Plural Shabbatot (Sephardi/non-Orthodox Ashkenazi) / Shabbosim (Orthodox Ashkenazi).
'Shabbat' is the Sephardi/Modern Hebrew pronunciation/spelling, while 'Shabbos' is the Ashkenazi spelling/pronunciation, although many non-Orthodox Ashkenazi Jews use 'Shabbat' or use both. The spelling 'Shabbos' became crystallized as the most common spelling in America in the 1910s, influenced by the komets vowel in the Ashkenazi Hebrew spelling.
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