sabata

Of unknown origin. Possibly from Turkish zabata or Tatar čabata (“overshoes”), ultimately either from Turkish çapıt, çaput (“patchwork, tatters”), from Old Turkic čapmaq‎ (čapmaq, “to slap on”), or of Iranian origin, from Chorasmian čābātān‎ (“thick boots”), cognate with modern Persian چپت‎.

Influenced by Old French bot savate. Cognate with Spanish zapata.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /səˈba.tə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /saˈba.ta/

sabata f (plural sabates)

1. shoe

• “sabata” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• “sabata” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “sabata” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

A borrowing introduced by the missionaries, but from an unclear source; probably Latin sabbatum or its source, Ancient Greek σάββατον (sábbaton).

• IPA^(key): /sáˈɓa.ta/
• IPA^(key): /saˈɓa.tá/ (Southern Region)

sábata class 5 (plural masábata class 6)

1. week

   Synonym: mlungu

sábata class 9 (plural sábata class 10)

1. sabbath (in Christianity, Sunday)

• Lasabata (“Sunday”)

• subatu

From Latin sabbata, from sabbatum. Cognate with Romanian sâmbătă, Friulian sabide, Ladin sabeda, Romansch sonda, Italian sabato, French samedi, Spanish sábado.

sabata

1. Saturday