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Saturday
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English
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Week-day names
Etymology
en ine-pro *dʰegʷʰ-
From en enm Saterday, from en ang sæterdæġ, earlier ang sæternesdæġ Saterday Saturn's day, from en gmw-pro *Sāturnas dag; a translation of en la diēs Saturnī, equivalent to en Saturn day. Compare sco Seturday, fy saterdei Saturday, nl zaterdag Saturday, nds-de Saterdag Saturday.
Pronunciation
săʹtər-dā săʹtər-di
en UK
en /ˈsæt.ə.deɪ/ /ˈsæt.ə.di/ RP
en En-uk-Saturday.ogg UK female voice
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-Saturday.wav UK male voice
en /ˈsæt.ə.də/ Northumbria
en /ˈsæt.ɚ.deɪ/ [ˈsæɾ.ɚ.deɪ̯] /ˈsæt.ɚ.di/ [ˈsæɾ.ɚ.di] GA
en en-us-Saturday.ogg US
en /ˈsæt.ə.dæɪ/ AU
en /ˈsɑːt.ə.deɪ/ /ˈsæ-/ SG
en Sat ur day
en ætədeɪ ætədi ætəɹdeɪ 3
Noun
en Q131The seventh day of the week in many religious traditions, and the sixth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; the Jewish Sabbath; it follows Friday and precedes Sunday.
en Seventh Day Quakerism
en Laura He China may have to bail out one of its poorest provinces w:CNN Business https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/27/economy/china-guizhou-province-debt-crisis-bailout-intl-hnk 2023-04-27 The Beijing-based firm — one of four funds created by the Chinese government in 1999 to process the bad loans of state-owned banks — announced Saturday that it would send a group of 50 experts to the province to help it “prevent and defuse risks” and “bail out” the real estate industry. https://web.archive.org/web/20230528053956/https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/27/economy/china-guizhou-province-debt-crisis-bailout-intl-hnk
en Kevin Liptak With stiff tariffs he promised now in place, Trump opens a new trade war w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/01/politics/tariffs-trump-campaign-promise 2025-02-01 Saturday’s tariffs are unlikely to be Trump’s last. The president said himself said in the Oval Office that additional tariffs could come by mid-February on chips, pharmaceuticals, steel, aluminum, copper, oil and gas imports – along with tariffs on the European Union – all threats that few would discount given his willingness to follow through on the North American and China tariffs on Saturday. https://web.archive.org/web/20250805160458/https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/01/politics/tariffs-trump-campaign-promise
Synonyms
en Sat, en Sat. abbreviations
Symbols
en S, en Sa
mul ♄ archaic
Hypernyms
en day
Hyponyms
en Black Saturday Caturday Dynamite Saturday Easter Saturday Egg Saturday Holy Saturday Hospital Saturday Little Saturday Pink Saturday Super Saturday Whit Saturday
Derived terms
en first Saturday devotions Fraturday Saturdaily Saturday closing Saturday penny Saturday pops Saturday Sabbatarian Saturday soup Saturday-morning cartoon Saturday-night Saturday-night pistol Saturday-night special Saturday-to-Monday Saturdaying Saturdayish Saturdayite Saturdayness Saturdays<pos:adverb> splatterday w:Third Saturday in October week of Saturdays
Descendants
tpi Sarere
Translations
day of the week
Abkhaz: ab асабша
Afar: aa sábti
Afrikaans: af Saterdag
Aghwan: xag 𐕐𐔰𐕌𐔱𐔰𐕜
Akan: ak Memenada
Alabama: akz nihtahollosi
Albanian: sq e shtunë
Alutiiq: ems Maqineq
American Sign Language: ase S@Side-PalmBack CirclesHoriz
Amharic: am ቅዳሜ
Arabic: ar السَّبْت m, ar يَوْم السَّبْت m
Egyptian Arabic: arz السبت m es-sabt
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: aii ܫܲܒܬܵܐ šabta
Armenian: hy շաբաթ
Old Armenian: xcl շաբաթ
Aromanian: rup sâmbãtã f
Assamese: as শনিবাৰ
Asturian: ast sábadu m
Avar: av щамат
Azerbaijani: az şənbə
Bangi: bni sabala
Bashkir: ba шәмбе
Basque: eu larunbat
Bats: bbl შაბათ
Belarusian: be субо́та f
Bengali: bn শনিবার
Bikol:
Central Bikol: bcl Sabado
Blackfoot: bla to'tohtáátoyiiksistsiko
Breton: br Sadorn m
Buginese: bug sattu
Bulgarian: bg съ́бота f
Burmese: my စနေ
Catalan: ca dissabte m
Central Atlas Tamazight: tzm ⵙⴰⴷ
Chechen: ce шот
Cherokee: chr ᏙᏓᏈᏕᎾ, chr ᎤᎾᏙᏓᏈᏕᎾ
Chichewa: ny Loweruka
Chickasaw: cic Nittak Hollo' Nakfish, cic Nittak Ishhanna'li'
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 星期六, yue 禮拜六, yue 週六
Dungan: dng щинчилю, dng либэлю, dng шанбэ
Hakka: hak 拜六 pai-liuk
Hokkien: nan-hbl 禮拜六 lé-pài-lio̍k, nan-hbl 拜六 pài-lio̍k
Mandarin: cmn 星期六, cmn 禮拜六, cmn 週六
Wu: wuu 禮拜六
Choctaw: cho Satʋti
Chuukese: chk Ammon
Chuvash: cv шӑматкун
Circassian:
East Circassian: kbd щэбэт
West Circassian: ady шэмбэт
Coptic: cop ⲥⲁⲃⲃⲁⲧⲟⲛ m
Cornish: kw Sadorn, kw de Sadorn, kw dy'Sadorn
Corsican: co sàbatu m
Cree:
Atikamekw: atj mari kicikaw
Crimean Tatar: crh cumaertesi
Czech: cs sobota f
Dakota: dak Owaŋkayužažapi
Dalmatian: dlm sabata
Danish: da lørdag
Dutch: nl zaterdag m
Dzongkha: dz ཉི་མ
Emilian: egl sâbet m
Erzya: myv шлямочи, myv субута
Esperanto: eo sabato
Estonian: et laupäev
Farefare: gur Asibi
Faroese: fo leygardagur m
Fijian: fj siga Vakarauwai
Finnish: fi lauantai
French: fr samedi m
Frisian:
North Frisian:
Föhr-Amrum: frr söninj
Mooring: frr saneene
Sylt: frr Seninj
West Frisian: fy sneon, fy saterdei
Friulian: fur sabide, fur sàbide
Galician: gl sábado m
Georgian: ka შაბათი
German: de Samstag m, de Sonnabend m, de Sabbat m, de Satertag m Westphalian, East Frisian
Greek: el Σάββατο n
Greenlandic: kl arfininngorneq
Guarani:
Paraguayan Guarani: gug arapokõi
Guianese Creole: gcr sanmdi
Gujarati: gu શનિવાર m
Haitian Creole: ht samdi
Hausa: ha Asabar f, ha Sati m
Hawaiian: haw Pōʻaono
Hebrew: he שַׁבָּת f shabát
Hiligaynon: hil Sabadó
Hindi: hi शनिवार m, hi शनि m, hi सनीचर m
Hungarian: hu szombat
Hunsrik: hrx Samstach m
Icelandic: is laugardagur m
Ido: io saturdio
Indonesian: id Sabtu
Ingrian: izh soovotta, izh laukopäivä
Ingush: inh шоатта
Interlingua: ia sabbato
Irish: ga Satharn m
Italian: it sabato m
Japanese: ja 土曜日 どようび, doyōbi, ja 土曜 どよう, doyō
Javanese: jv ꦱꦼꦠꦸ Setu, jv ꦱꦼꦥ꧀ꦠꦸ Septu
Kalmyk: xal бембә өдр
Karelian: krl suovattu
Kashmiri: ks بَٹہٕ وار
Kashubian: csb sobòta f
Kazakh: kk сенбі
Khmer: km ថ្ងៃសៅរ៍
Kongo: kg Lumbu kia sabala
Korean: ko 토요일(土曜日), ko 토요(土曜)
Kumyk: kum сонгугюн
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ckb شەممە, ckb شەمموو
Northern Kurdish: kmr şemî, kmr şembî
Kusaal: kus asibitɩ daat
Kyrgyz: ky ишемби
Ladin: lld sabeda
Lakota: lkt Owáŋkayužažapi, lkt Aŋpétu Šákpe
Lao: lo ວັນເສົາ, lo ເສົາ
Latgalian: ltg sastdīne f
Latin: la diēs Saturnī m f, la sabbatum n, la sabbata n-p
Latvian: lv sestdiena f
Laz: lzz საბატონი
Lezgi: lez киш
Ligurian: lij sâbbo
Limburgish: li zaoterdig, li zamsdaag
Lingala: ln sabala
Lithuanian: lt šeštadienis m
Livonian: liv pūolpǟva
Lombard: lmo sabet
Louisiana Creole: lou sanmdi, lou sammdi
Low German:
Dutch Low Saxon: nds-nl zaoterdag
German Low German: nds-de Sünnavend m, nds-de Sünnovend m, nds-de Saterdag m
Lü: khb ᦞᧃᦉᧁ
Luganda: lg Lwamukaaga
Luxembourgish: lb Samschden m, lb Samschdeg m
Macedonian: mk сабота f
Makasar: mak sattu
Malay: ms Sabtu
Malayalam: ml ശനിയാഴ്ച
Maltese: mt is-Sibt
Manchu: mnc ᠪᠣᡳᡥᠣᠨ ᡠᠰᡳᠩᡤᡳ
Manx: gv Jesarn
Māori: mi Hātarei, mi Rāhoroi
Mapudungun: arn safadu antü
Marathi: mr शनिवार m
Mari:
Eastern Mari: mhr шуматкече, mhr шумат
Mauritian Creole: mfe samdi
Mingrelian: xmf საბატონი, xmf შურიშხა
Mirandese: mwl sábado
Mizo: lus Inrinni
Mòcheno: mhn sònsta m
Mohawk: moh entákta
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: mn бямба written, mn хагас сайн өдөр popular, mn гаригийн зургаа China
Mongolian script: mn ᠪᠢᠮᠪᠠ, mn ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠰ ᠰᠠᠢᠢᠨ ᠡᠳᠦᠷ, mn ᠭᠠᠷᠠᠭ ᠦᠨ ᠵᠢᠷᠭᠣᠭᠠᠨ
Moore: mos sibri
Navajo: nv Yiską́ Damį́įgo
Neapolitan: nap sàbbato, nap sàpato
Niuean: niu Aho Faiumu
Norman: nrf Sanm'di m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb lørdag m
Nynorsk: nn laurdag m
Occitan: oc dissabte
Odia: or ଶନିବାର
Ojibwe: oj ishkwaajanokii-giizhigad, oj giziibiigisaginige-giizhigad
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: cu сѫбота f, cu собота f
Old English: ang sæternesdæġ m
Old Norse: non laugardagr m
Oromo: om Sanbata
Ossetian: os сабат
Pannonian Rusyn: rsk собота f
Papiamentu: pap diasabra
Pashto: ps شنبه f šanba, ps شنبې m šanbe, ps خالي ورځ f xāli wraj, ps خالي f xāli
Pennsylvania German: pdc Samschdaag
Persian:
Iranian Persian: fa-ira شَنْبِه
Plautdietsch: pdt Sinnowent
Polish: pl sobota f
Portuguese: pt sábado m
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: pa ਸਨਿੱਚਰਵਾਰ m, pa ਸਨੀਵਾਰ m, pa ਸ਼ਨਿੱਚਰਵਾਰ m, pa ਸ਼ਨੀਵਾਰ m
Quechua: qu k'uychichaw
Rapa Nui: rap mahana hopu
Romani: rom sàvato m
Romanian: ro sâmbătă f
Romansh: rm sonda f, rm sanda f, rm somda f
Russian: ru суббо́та f
Rwanda-Rundi: rw Kwagatandatu
Sami:
Inari Sami: smn lávurdâh
Kildin Sami: sjd сӯвведҍ
Northern Sami: se lávvadat
Skolt Sami: sms sueʹvet
Samoan: sm Aso To'ona'i
Sanskrit: sa शनिवार m, sa स्थिरवार m
Sardinian: sc sàbadu m, sc sàpadu, sc sàbudu
Scots: sco Seturday
Scottish Gaelic: gd Disathairne m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh су̀бота f
Latin: sh sùbota f
Shona: sn Chitanhatu
Sicilian: scn sàbbatu, scn sàbbitu, scn sabbatudìa
Sindhi: sd ڇَنڇَرُ, sd شَنسچَرُ
Sinhalese: si සෙනසුරාදා
Slovak: sk sobota f
Slovene: sl sobóta f
Somali: so Sabti
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: dsb sobota f
Upper Sorbian: hsb sobota f
Sotho: st Moqebele
Southern Altai: alt суббот
Spanish: es sábado m
Sranan Tongo: srn satra
Subanen:
Lapuyan Subanun: laa Shapetu
Svan: sva საფტინ
Swahili: sw Jumamosi
Swazi: ss úm-gcibélo
Swedish: sv lördag c
Tabasaran: tab киш
Tagalog: tl Sabado
Tahitian: ty mahama maa
Tajik: tg шанбе
Talysh: tly şambə
Tamil: ta சனி, ta சனிக்கிழமை
Taos: twf sóbolu
Tarantino: roa-tar sàbbete
Tat: ttt şəmbi
Tatar: tt шимбә
Tausug: tsg Sabtuꞌ
Tetum: tet loron-sábadu
Thai: th วันเสาร์ wan sǎo, th เสาร์
Tibetan: bo གཟའ་སྤེན་པ
Tigrinya: ti ቀዳም
Tok Pisin: tpi Sarere
Tokelauan: tkl Ahotōnai
Tongan: to Tokonaki
Tswana: tn Matlhatso
Turkish: tr cumartesi
Turkmen: tk şenbe, tk ruhgün
Udmurt: udm кӧснунал
Ukrainian: uk субо́та f
Urdu: ur ہَفْتَہ m, ur سَنِیچَر m, ur شَن٘بَہ m rare
Uyghur: ug شەنبە
Uzbek: uz shanba
Vai: vai ꕢꔤꔐ Sáide
Venetan: vec sabo m
Vietnamese: vi thứ bảy
Volapük: vo zädel, vo velüdel
Walloon: wa semdi
Welsh: cy dydd Sadwrn m
Winnebago: win Hąąp hoinįge, win Waruwį Hąąp
Wolof: wo Gaawu
Xhosa: xh uMgqibelo
Yakan: yka Sabtuꞌ
Yakut: sah субуота
Yiddish: yi שבת m shabes
Yup'ik: esu Maqineq
Zaghawa: zag sabit
Zazaki: zza şeme
Zulu: zu uMgqibelo
Adverb
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en US Canada informal in UK On Saturday.
Translations
on Saturday
American Sign Language: ase S@Side-PalmBack CirclesHoriz
Breton: br disadorn
Bulgarian: bg в събота
Dutch: nl 's zaterdags, nl zaterdags, nl op zaterdag
Esperanto: eo sabate
Faroese: fo leygardagin
Finnish: fi lauantai lauantaina
French: fr samedi
Galician: gl o sábado
Georgian: ka შაბათს
Irish: ga Dé Sathairn
Old Irish: sga día Sathairn
Latvian: lv sestdien
Manx: gv Jesarn
Polish: pl sobota
Portuguese: pt sábado
Romanian: ro sâmbătă, ro sâmbăta
Romansh: rm sonda
Russian: ru суббота
Slovak: sk v sobotu
Tatar: tt шимбә
Turkish: tr cumartesi
Volapük: vo zädelo, vo velüdelo
Welsh: cy ddydd Sadwrn
Verb
en uncommon creative To spend Saturday (at a place or doing an activity).
en 1913 Bell Telephone News 3 5 https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Bell_Telephone_News/U5PmAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22saturdayed%22&dq=%22saturdayed%22&printsec=frontcover Mr. Angus Hibbard, of New York, Fridayed and Saturdayed in Chicago, for the show and banquet.
See also
Middle English
Noun
enm noun 1
enm Saterday