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I think it is still an open question, at least according to this [1]:

> Borrowed from Medieval Latin sabbatum (or from Vulgar Latin *sambatum), from Ancient Greek σάββᾱτον (sábbāton), from Hebrew שַׁבָּת‎ (šabbāṯ, “sabbath”).

It's funny cause in Romanian we're using "sâmbătă" for Saturday, which is pretty damn clause to that Vulgar Latin term "sambatum" (which makes sense, Romanian being a romance language), but our official etymological dictionary [2] gives the old slavic "sonbota" as a source.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/s...

[2] https://dexonline.ro/definitie/sambata



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