شنبه
Azerbaijani
Noun
شنبه (şənbə) (definite accusative شنبهنی (şənbəni), plural شنبهلر (şənbələr))
- 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 (šambaḏ) (Early New Persian, obsolete)
Etymology
From earlier form شنبذ (šambaḏ) 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.ˈba/, /ʃan.ˈbih/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [ʃäm.béː]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [ʃæm.bé]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [ʃäm.bé]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | šanbá, šanbíh |
| Dari reading? | šanbē |
| Iranian reading? | šanbe |
| Tajik reading? | šanbe |
Audio (Iran): (file)
Noun
شنبه • (šanba, šanbē / šanbe) (Tajik spelling шанбе)
- 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
- šanbih ān-jā ki qism-i šanbih būd
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Azerbaijani: şənbə
- → Bashkir: шәмбе (şəmbe)
- → Chagatai: شنبه (šänbä)
- → 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)
- → Zazaki: şeme (šama)
See also
- days of the week: روزهای هفته (rōz-hā-yi hafta / ruz-hâ-ye hafte) (appendix): شنبه (šanba / šanbe) · یکشنبه (yak-šanba / yek-šanbe) · دوشنبه (du-šanba / do-šanbe) · سهشنبه (si-šanba / se-šanbe) · چهارشنبه (čahār-šanba / čahâr-šanbe) · پنجشنبه (panj-šanba / panj-šanbe) · آدینه (ādēna / âdine)/جمعه (jum'a / jom'e) [edit]
References
- Youli Ioannesyan (2018), “The historically unmotivated majhul vowel as a significant areal dialectological feature” (chapter 7), in Alireza Korangy, Corey Miller, editors, Trends in Iranian and Persian Linguistics (in English), De Gruyter Mouton, , pages 119–134