شنبه

Azerbaijani

Noun

شنبه (şənbə) (definite accusative شنبه‌نی (şənbəni), plural شنبه‌لر (şənbələr))

1. Arabic spelling of şənbə

Declension

Declension of شنبه

	singular	plural
nominative	شنبه	شنبه‌لر
definite accusative	شنبه‌نی	شنبه‌لری
dative	شنبه‌یه	شنبه‌لره
locative	شنبه‌ده	شنبه‌لرده
ablative	شنبه‌دن	شنبه‌لردن
definite genitive	شنبه‌نین	شنبه‌لرین

Persian

Alternative forms

• شنبد (šanbad) (obsolete, dialectal)
• شنبذ (šambað) (Classical Persian)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Akkadian šapattumbor.?

Hebrew שַׁבָּתder.

Persian شنبه

From earlier form شنبذ (šambað) from late Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫢𐫖𐫁𐫅 (šmbd /⁠šambad⁠/) from early Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫢𐫖𐫁𐫎 (šmbṯ /⁠šambat⁠/, “Sabbath, Saturday”) (akin to Manichaean Parthian 𐫢𐫖𐫁𐫤 (šmbt /⁠šambat⁠/, “Sabbath, Saturday”)), ultimately from Hebrew שַׁבָּת (shabát, “Sabbath”), itself possibly from Akkadian 𒊭𒉺𒀜𒌈 (šapattum, “the middle day of the month”). Akin to Aghwan 𐕐𐔰𐕌𐔱𐔰𐕜 (šambaṭ), an Iranian borrowing.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʃan.ˈbih], [ʃan.ˈba]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃäm.be̞ʱ], [ʃäm.béː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃäm.be̞ʱ], [ʃäm.béː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʃäm.béː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʃäm.béː]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃæm.bé]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʃäm.bé]

Readings
Classical reading?	šanbih, šanba
Dari reading?	šanbeh, šanbē
Iranian reading?	šanbe
Tajik reading?	šanbe

• Audio (Iran):

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Noun

Dari	شنبه
Iranian Persian
Tajik	шанбе

شنبه • (šanbe or šanbeh)

1. Saturday
   • 1197, Hakīm Nizāmī Ganjawī, chapter 25, in هفت پیکر [Haft Paykar]:

     شنبه آنجا که قسم شنبه بود
     وآن دگرها چنان کز آن به بود

     šanbih ān-jā ki qism-i šanbih būd
     w-ān digar-hā čunān k-az ān bih būd

     On Saturday the place prescribed for it
     And on the other days as it was meet

Derived terms

• شنبهی کردن (šanbehi kardan, “to sabbatize”)
• یک‌شنبه (yek-šanbe)
• دوشنبه (do-šanbe)
• سه‌شنبه (se-šanbe)
• چهارشنبه (čahâr-šanbe)
• پنج‌شنبه (panj-šanbe)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: şənbə
• → Bashkir: шәмбе (şəmbe)
• → Dungan: шанбэ (šanbe)
• → Gujarati: શંબા (śambā)
• Urdu: شنبہ (śambah)
• → Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: شه‌مه (šama)

  Northern Kurdish: şembî (šambī)

  Southern Kurdish: شه‌مه (šama)

• → Judeo-Persian: שמבד (šambad)
• → Kazakh: сенбі (senbı)
• → Kyrgyz: ишемби (işembi)
• → Tatar: шимбә (şimbä)
• → Uyghur: شەنبە (shenbe)
• → Uzbek: shanba
• → Zazaki: şeme (šama)

See also

• days of the week: روزْهایِ هَفْتِه (ruz-hâ-ye hafte) (appendix): شَنْبِه (šanbe) · یِک‌شَنْبِه (yek-šanbe) · دوشَنْبِه (došanbe) · سِه‌شَنْبِه (se-šanbe) · چَهارْشَنْبِه (čahâršanbe) · پَنْج‌شَنْبِه (panj-šanbe) · آدینِه (âdine)/جُمْعِه (jom'e) ^[edit]