Everything about Day Of The Week totally explained
The names of the
days of the week in various world languages can be classified as either
numerical or
planetary, both of which may have the names of one or more days changed for religious or secular reasons. As exceptions, Sunday is often named "Lord" (for
Lord's Day) while Saturday is often named "Sabbath" or "washing day". Numerically named days may associate day one with Sunday as in
Arabic,
Hebrew and
Portuguese, or may associate day one with Monday as in
Russian and other
Slavic languages. Planetary names for the days are derived from the
Sun,
Moon, and five visible planets (
Mars,
Mercury,
Jupiter,
Venus, and
Saturn), which in turn were named for Roman gods with the same names. The
Germanic languages, including
English, substitute Nordic gods with similar characteristics for many of the Roman gods, although the Nordic gods themselves never were associated with the planets.
The English names for the days of the week derive from the
Anglo-Saxon deities stemming from the indigenous
pantheon of the
Anglo-Saxons. Thursday and Friday come from Scandinavian deities
Thor and
Freyja. An exception to this is Saturday, which takes its name from the
Roman deity
Saturn. To varying extents, most regions with dominant
Germanic languages practice a similar naming convention, basing most of their week days in recognition of their native
Germanic deities.
The seven-day
workweek is generally comprised of five working days ("weekdays") and two non-working days (the "weekend"), though which days of the week are which varies from country to country. Which day of the week is the "first" day also varies, even among countries that share the same weekend days.
Names of the days
Remnants of
Germanic deities are reflected in the English language names for days of the week, as (more or less)
calques of the Roman names:
- Sunday: The name Sunday comes from the Old English Sunnandæg (pronounced [sun.nan.dæg] or [sun.nan.dæj),meaning "Day of the Sun". This is a translation of the Latin phrase Dies Solis. English, like most of the Germanic languages, preserves the original pagan/sun associations of the day. Many other European languages, including all of the Romance languages, have changed its name to the equivalent of "the Lord's day" (based on Ecclesiastical Latin Dies Dominica). Compare Spanish/Portuguese Domingo, French dimanche, Romanian duminca and Italian Domenica.
- Monday: The name Monday comes from the Old English Mōnandæg (pronounced [mon.nan.dæg] or [mon.nan.dæj'),meaning "Day of the Moon". This is likely based on a translation of the Latin name Dies Lunae (cf. Romance language versions of the name, for example, French Lundi, Spanish, Lunes, Romanian Luni, Italian Lunedì).
- Tuesday: The name Tuesday comes from the Old English Tiwesdæg (pronounced [ti.wes.dæg] or [ti.wes.dæj], meaning "Tyr's day." Tyr (in Old English, Tiw, Tew or Tiu) was a god of combat and heroic glory in Norse mythology and Germanic paganism. The name of the day is based on Latin Dies Martis, "Day of Mars" (the Roman war god); compare French Mardi, Spanish Martes, Romanian Marti and Italian Martedì.
- Wednesday: The name Wednesday comes from the Old English Wōdnesdæg (pronounced [woːd.nes.dæg] or [woːd.nes.dæj)meaning the day of the Germanic god Wodan, more commonly known as Odin, who was the highest god in Norse mythology, and a prominent god of the Anglo-Saxons (and other places) in England until about the seventh century. It is based on Latin Dies Mercurii, "Day of Mercury"; compare French Mercredi, Spanish Miércoles, Romanian Miercuri and Italian Mercoledì. The connection between Mercury and Odin is more strained than the other syncretic connections. The usual explanation is that both Odin and Mercury were considered psychopomps, or leaders of souls, in their respective mythologies. Also, in Old Norse myth, Odin, like Mercury, is associated with poetic and musical inspiration. In German, the day is referred to as Mittwoch (mid week). Similar to German, in Finnish it's referred to as keskiviikko (keski = mid, viikko = week).
- Thursday: The name Thursday comes from the Old English Þūnresdæg (pronounced [θuːn.res.dæg] or [θuːn.res.dæj]), meaning the day of Þunor, commonly known in Modern English as Thor, the god of thunder in Norse Mythology and Germanic Paganism. It is based on the Latin Dies Iovis, "Day of Jupiter"; compare French Jeudi, Spanish Jueves, Romanian Joi and Italian Giovedì. In the Roman pantheon, Jupiter was the chief god, who seized and maintained his power on the basis of his thunderbolt (Fulmen).
- Friday: The name Friday comes from the Old English Frigedæg (pronounced [fri.je.dæg] or [fri.je.dæj]), meaning the day of Frige, the Germanic goddess of beauty, who is a later incarnation of the Norse goddess Frigg, but also potentially connected to the Goddess Freyja. It is based on the Latin Dies Veneris, "Day of Venus"; compare French Vendredi, Spanish Viernes, Romanian Vineri and Italian Venerdì. Venus was the Roman goddess of beauty, love and sex.
- Saturday: Saturday is the only day of the week to retain its Roman origin in English, named after the Roman god Saturn associated with the Titan Cronus, father of Zeus and many Olympians. Its original Anglo-Saxon rendering was Sæturnesdæg (pronounced [sæ.tur.nes.dæg] or [sæ.tur.nes.dæj]). In Latin it was Dies Saturni, "Day of Saturn"; compare French Samedi, Spanish Sábado, Romanian sambata and Italian Sabato, which come from Sambata Dies (Day of the Sabbath).
What is different is that the gods in question (except Saturn) don't appear to preside over the planets involved. However, as shown above, they correspond to some extent to Roman gods that rule over the respective planets.
First day of the week
In
English the days of the week are
Sunday,
Monday,
Tuesday,
Wednesday,
Thursday,
Friday and
Saturday. Most business and social calendars in the United States and Canada mark Sunday as the first day of the week, though in the United Kingdom, Australia, South Africa and South America, Monday is considered the first day of the working week.
Sunday was the first day of the
astrological week, in the
Hebrew week, and in the
Ecclesiastical Latin week of the first millennium. Sunday still begins the week in the
United States and to some extent in other
English-speaking countries.
In Jewish and Christian tradition, the first day of the seven day week is
Sunday. According to the
Bible, God created the Earth in six days, and rested on the seventh day, the
Sabbath, for example Saturday. This made Sunday the first day of the week, while Saturdays were sanctified for celebration and rest. After the week was adopted in Early Christian Europe, Sunday remained the first day of the week, but also gradually displaced Saturday as the day of celebration and rest, being considered the
Lord's Day. For this reason, in many places Sunday eventually came to be viewed as the last day of the week.
The variation is evident from names of the days in some languages — in Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, some days are simply called by their number starting from Sunday, for example Monday is called "Second day" etc. In other languages, like
Slavic languages, days are also called after their ordinal numbers, but starting from Monday, making Tuesday the "Second day". According to another possible explanation, days from Monday to Friday in Slavic languages aren't numbered by their position within the week, but by their distance from Sunday, especially given that Wednesday is named "The Middle day", which makes it a true statement only if Sunday is the first day of the week.
In most of Europe today, South America, and parts of Asia, Monday is considered to be the first day of the week and is literally named as such in languages such as Mandarin (
xingqiyi) and Lithuanian (
pirmadienis). The
ISO prescribes Monday as the first day of the week with
ISO-8601 for software date formats.
Origins
Various sources point to the seven day week originated in ancient
Babylonia or
Sumer. It has been suggested that a seven day week might be much older. The seven day planetary week originated in
Hellenistic Egypt.
It is suggested that the seven day week was deriving from early human observation that there are seven celestial objects (the five visible planets plus the Sun and the Moon) which move in the night sky relative to the fixed stars. Seven days is also the approximate time between the principal phases of the Moon (new, first half, full, last half). In any event, a seven day week based on heavenly luminaries eventually diffused both East and West, to the Romans via the Greeks, and to the Japanese via
Manicheans, Indians and Chinese.
Hindu civilization, which used a seven-day week, mentioned in the
Ramayana, a sacred epic written in
Sanskrit about 500 BC, used names such as
Bhanu-vaar meaning
Sunday,
Soma-vaar meaning Moon-day and so forth.
The earliest known reference in Chinese writings is attributed to
Fan Ning, who lived in the late
4th century, while diffusions via India are documented with the writings of the Chinese Buddhist monk
Yi Jing and the Ceylonese or Central Asian Buddhist monk
Bu Kong of the 8th century. The Chinese transliteration of the planetary system was soon brought to Japan by the Japanese monk
Kobo Daishi; surviving diaries of the Japanese statesman
Fujiwara Michinaga show the seven day system in use in
Heian Period Japan as early as 1007. In Japan, the seven day system was kept in use (for astrological purposes) until its promotion to a full-fledged (Western-style) calendrical basis during the
Meiji era.
The seven day week is known to have been unbroken for almost two millennia via the
Alexandrian,
Julian, and
Gregorian calendars. The date of
Easter Sunday can be traced back through numerous
computistic tables to an Ethiopic copy of an early Alexandrian table beginning with the Easter of 311 as described by
Otto Neugebauer in
Ethiopic astronomy and computus. Only one Roman date with an associated day of the week exists from the first century and it agrees with the modern sequence, if properly interpreted (see below). Jewish dates with a day of the week don't survive from this early period.
In other languages
Romance languages
In most
Romance languages, such as
Italian,
Spanish,
French and
Romanian, the names of the days
except Saturday and Sunday come from Roman gods via Latin. Latin itself calqued the names from Greek. The Roman (Latin) names of the days are still used in some English courts such as the House of Lords..
The major exception is
Portuguese which uses a numbered system derived from the Catholic Latin week.
Christianization
The early
Christian Church, uncomfortable using names based on
pagan gods, introduced a simple numerical nomenclature which persists in some
European languages such as
Portuguese and
Greek. The Christian names are derived from
Hebrew, which numbers all days of the week beginning with "First day" for Sunday but ending with the "Sabbath" for Saturday.
Arabic names for Sunday through Thursday are first through fifth days; Friday (the day when
Muslims are expected to perform noon prayers as a group) is named the "gathering day" and Saturday is
Sabt which means "the End" because the count of the days of the week end with it.
It was
Saint Martin of Dumio (c.
520–
580), archbishop of
Braga, who decided that it was unworthy of good Christians to call the days of the week by the
Latin names of pagan gods and decided to use the eclesiastic terminology to designate them (
Feria secunda, Feria tertia, Feria quarta, Feria quinta, Feria sexta, Sabbatum, Dominica Dies), from which came the present Portuguese numbered system. Martin also tried to replace the names of the planets, but in that he wasn't successful. In Middle Ages,
Galician-Portuguese still retained both systems (as seen in older texts), nowadays only Portuguese's sister language
Galician uses the old Roman gods system. For that reason, the first day of the week in Portuguese is Sunday (
Domingo).
The
Slavic languages adopted numbering but took Monday rather than Sunday as the "first day".
Celtic languages
Welsh, the closest living language to that of
Roman Britain, faithfully preserves all the Latin names, even though the language itself isn't directly descended from Latin.
In
Irish, the Latin names are used for Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Three days are named for the traditional
Roman Catholic days of
fasting and abstinence. Wednesday is "the first fast":
An Chéadaoin; Friday "the fast":
An Aoine; leaving Thursday as "the day between two fasts",
An Dé idir dhá aoin, contracted to
An Déardaoin.
Germanic languages
In English all the days of the week are named after the ruling luminary, with most of the names coming from
Germanic deities, such as
Wodan (
Wednesday) and
Thor (
Thursday). Sunday and Monday are named directly from the Sun and Moon.
Saturday is the only day named directly after a
Roman god, though the Germanic god associated with each day is generally a
syncretic calque of the corresponding divinity from the Roman calendar. Other
Germanic languages generally follow the same pattern, although the German for Wednesday is Mittwoch (mid-week) and Dutch is the only other with an equivalent to Saturday.
Icelandic is notably divergent, maintaining only the Sun and Moon (
sunnudagur and
mánudagur respectively), while dispensing with the names of the explicitly heathen gods in favor of a combination of numbered days and days whose names are linked to pious or domestic routine (
föstudagur, "Fasting Day" and
laugardagur, "Washing Day"). The "washing day" is also used in other
North Germanic languages, although the the "pagan" names generally are retained .
Indic Languages
In the
Hindu Calendar followed in South Asia and South-East Asia the days of the week (named after the planets, starting from Sunday) are called
bhaanu vaasara (Sun),
indu vaasara (Moon),
mangal vaasara (Mars),
saumya vaasara (Mercury),
guru vaasara (Jupiter)
bhrigu vaasara (Venus),
sthira vaasara (Saturn).
The names of days in India are Ravivar (Sunday), Somavar (Monday), Mangalvar (Tuesday), Budhavar (Wednesday), Guruvar (Thursday), Shukravar (Friday) and Shanivar (Saturday)
Japanese and Korean
In
Japanese and
Korean, the days of the week are named after the Chinese astrological week, which is based on the Indian luminary week. The Chinese associated the five classical planets with the
Five Elements. Notably, the order of the planets follows the Indian week, and not the order of the Chinese elements. (See table below.) For example, the planet Mercury is associated with the element Water, and Wednesday (
dies Mercuris) is called "day of water" (
suiyoubi, in Sino-Japanese). These names of days of the week were introduced by the end of the first millennium CE to Japan and Korea, but they were not widely used in Japanese or Korean daily life until the late 19th century.
Chinese
In modern
Chinese, days of the week are numbered from one to six, except Sunday. Literally, the Chinese term of Sunday means "week day"(星期日 or 星期天). Monday is named literally "week one" in Chinese, Tuesday is "week two", and so on. However, China adopted the Western calendar, putting Sunday at the beginning of the calendar week, and Saturday (星期六, meaning "week six" in Chinese) at the end.
A second way to refer to weekdays is using the word zhou (周), meaning "cycle." Therefore Sunday is referred to as zhoumo (周末), meaning "cycle's end" and Monday through Saturday is termed accordingly zhouyi (周一） "first of cycle," zhouer (周二
) "second of cycle," and etc.
Another Chinese numbering system, found sometimes in spoken Chinese of southern languages (for example Cantonese/Yue, or Fukinese/Min), refers to Sunday as the "day of worship" (礼拜日 or 礼拜天) and numbers the other days "first [dayafter] worship" (Monday) through "sixth [dayafter] worship" (Saturday). The Chinese word used for "worship" is associated with Christian and Muslim worship, and the system's use may be connected with the arrival of Christianity, especially prevalent during in the 18th and 19th centuries in south coastal port cities.
In traditional Chinese calenders, days may still be referred to by their association with the sun, moon, and the Chinese elements of fire, water, wood, metal, and earth.
Cross-linguistic overview
» The (suggested) purpose of these tables is to show how far different languages preserve the associations with the associated celestial bodies of ancient times and the Church's numbering of the days. (That is, not to list the names in "every" language: Wiktionary entries for the day names offer such lists – click on the links in the header row.)
Planetary
| Day |
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| Celestial Body & Astronomical symbol | Sun |
Moon |
Mars |
Mercury |
Jupiter |
Venus |
Saturn
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| Latin | |
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| Italian | (1) |
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(2)
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| Spanish | (1) |
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(2)
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| Romanian | (1) |
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(2)
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| French | (1) |
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(2)
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| Galician | (1) |
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(2)
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| Catalan | (1) |
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(2)
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| Interlingua | (1) |
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(2)
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| Ido | |
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(2)
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| Esperanto | (1) |
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(2)
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| Welsh | |
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| Cornish | Dy Sul |
Dy Lun |
Dy Meurth |
Dy Mergher |
Dy Yow |
Dy Gwener |
Dy Sadorn
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| Breton | Disul |
Dilun |
Dimeurzh |
Dimerc’her |
Diriaou |
Digwener |
Disadorn
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| Irish | (1)
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|
first fast |
day between two fasts |
fast |
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| Scots Gaelic | (1) |
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| Manx | Jedoonee (1) |
Jelune |
Jemayrt |
Jecrean |
Jerdrein |
Jeheiney |
Jesarn
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| West Frisian | |
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(8) or
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| Old English | Sunnandæg
sun's day |
Mōnandæg |
Tiwesdæg
Tiw's day |
Wodnesdæg
Woden's day |
Þunresdæg
Thunor's day |
Frigesdæg
Frige's day |
Sæternesdæg
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| Old High German | Sunnuntag |
Mānetag |
Zeistag
Ziu's day |
Wodanstag
Wodan's day |
Donerestag
Donar's day |
Friatag
Freia's day |
Sambaztag (2)
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| German | |
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(3) |
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(2) or
Sonnabend (8)
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| Dutch |
Sun day |
Moon day |
Thing day |
Woden's day |
Donar's day |
Freia day |
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| Old Norse | Sunnundagr
Sunna's day |
Mánandagr |
Tysdagr
Tyr's day |
Óðensdagr
Odin's day |
Þorsdagr
Thor's day |
Friádagr
Freyja's day |
Laugardagr (4)
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| Norwegian, Bokmål | |
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(4)
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| Norwegian, Nynorsk | |
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(4)
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| Danish | |
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(4)
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| Swedish | |
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(4)
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| Finnish | |
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(3) |
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(4)
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| Albanian | |
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| Tagalog | (1) |
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(2)
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| Sanskrit | भानुवासरम्
Bhaanu day (Sun) |
इन्दुवासरम्
Indu day (Moon) |
भौमवासरम्
Bhauma day (Mars) |
सौम्यवासरम्
Saumya day (Mercury) |
गुरूवासरम
Guru day (Jupiter) |
भ्रगुवासरम्
Bhrgu day (Venus) |
स्थिरवासरम्
Sthira day (Saturn)
|
| Hindi | रविवार
Ravivār (Sun day) |
सोमवार
Somavār (Moon day) |
मंगलवार
Mangalavār (Mars day) |
बुधवार
Budhavār (Mercury day) |
गुरूवार
Guruvār (Jupiter day) |
शुक्रवार
Shukravār (Venus day) |
शनिवार
Shanivār (Saturn day)
|
| Bengali | রবিবার
Robibar (Sun day) |
সোমবার
Shombar (Moon day) |
মঙ্গলবার
Monggolbar (Mars day) |
বুধবার
Budhbar (Mercury day) |
বৃহস্পতিবার
Brihôshpotibar (Jupiter day) |
শুক্রবার
Shukrobar (Venus day) |
শনিবার
Shonibar (Saturn day)
|
| Gujarati | રવિવાર
Ravivār |
સોમવાર
Somavār |
મંગળવાર
Mangalavār |
બુધવાર
Budhavār |
ગુરૂવાર
Guruvār |
શુક્રવાર
Shukravār |
શનિવાર
Shanivār
|
| Tamil | ஞாயிற்று
கிழமை
Nyāyitru day |
திங்கட்
கிழமை
Thingat day |
செவ்வாய்க்
கிழமை
Sevvāi day |
புதன்க்
கிழமை
Budhan day |
வியாழக்
கிழமை
Vyāzha day |
வெள்ளிக்
கிழமை
Velli day |
சனிக்
கிழமை
Shani day
|
| Telugu | Aadi day |
Soma day |
Mangala day |
Budha day |
Bestha/Guru/Lakshmi day |
Shukra day |
Shani day
|
| Thai | วันอาทิตย์
(Sun day)
(Colour: Red) |
วันจันทร์
(Moon day)
(Colour: Yellow) |
วันอังคาร
(Mars (planet) day)
(Colour: Pink) |
วันพุธ
(Mercury (planet) day)
(Colour: Green) |
วันพฤหัสบดี
(Jupiter (planet) day)
(Colour: Orange) |
วันศุกร์
(Venus (planet) day)
(Colour: Blue) |
วันเสาร์
(Saturn (planet) day)
(Colour: Purple)
|
| Old Chinese (5) |
(Sun's day) |
(Moon's day) |
(Fire planet day) (Mars) |
(Water planet day) (Mercury) |
(Wood planet day) (Jupiter) |
(Metal planet day) (Venus) |
(Earth planet day) (Saturn)
|
| Japanese (5) |
にちようび
(Sun day) |
げつようび
(Moon day) |
かようび
(Fire planet day) (Mars) |
すいようび
(Water planet day) (Mercury) |
もくようび
(Wood planet day) (Jupiter) |
きんようび
(Metal planet day) (Venus) |
どようび
(Earth planet day) (Saturn)
|
| Korean (5) |
(Sun's day) |
(Moon's day) |
(Fire planet day) (Mars) |
(Water planet day) (Mercury) |
(Wood planet day) (Jupiter) |
(Metal planet day) (Venus) |
(Earth planet day) (Saturn)
|
| Tibetan |
(Sun's day) |
(Moon's day) |
(Fire planet day) (Mars) |
(Water planet day) (Mercury) |
(Wood planet day) (Jupiter) |
(Metal planet day) (Venus) |
(Earth planet day) (Saturn)
|
| Mongolian (arga) |
nyam
(planet Sun) |
davaa
(planet Moon) |
myagmar
(planet Mars) |
lkhagva
(planet Mercury) |
pürev
(planet Jupiter) |
baasan
(planet Venus) |
byamba
(planet Saturn)
|
| Mongolian (bilig) |
adiya
(planet Sun) |
sumiya
(planet Moon) |
angarag
(planet Mars) |
bud
(planet Mercury) |
barhasbadi
(planet Jupiter) |
sugar
(planet Venus) |
sanchir
(planet Saturn)
|
Numerical
| Starting on Sunday
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| Day |
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| Hebrew |
yom rishon
(First day) |
yom sheyni
(Second day) |
yom shlishi
(Third day) |
yom revi'i
(Fourth day) |
yom khamishi
(Fifth day) |
yom shishi
(Sixth day) |
yom Shabbat
(Sabbath) (2)
|
| Arabic | يوم الأحد
yaum al-ahad
(First day) |
يوم الإثنين
yaum al-ithnayn
(Second day) |
يوم الثُّلَاثاء
yaum ath-thulatha
(Third day) |
يوم الأَرْبعاء
yaum al-arbiaa
(Fourth day) |
يوم الخَمِيس
yaum al-khamees
(Fifth day) |
يوم الجُمْعَة
yaum al-jumuah
(Meeting day) |
يوم السَّبْت
yaum as-sabt (2)
(End day)
|
| Ecclesiastical Latin | Dominica (1)
(Lord's [Day]) |
feria secunda
(Second weekday) |
feria tertia
(Third weekday) |
feria quarta
(Fourth weekday) |
feria quinta
(Fifth weekday) |
feria sexta
(Sixth weekday) |
sabbatum (2)
(Sabbath)
|
| Portuguese (also Galician) | (1)
(Lord's day) |
(Second weekday) |
(Third weekday) |
(Fourth weekday) |
(Fifth weekday) |
(Sixth weekday) |
(2)
(Sabbath)
|
| Greek | Κυριακή (1)
Kyriakí
(Lord's day) |
Δευτέρα
Dheftéra
(Second) |
Τρίτη
Tríti
(Third) |
Τετάρτη
Tetárti
(Fourth) |
Πέμπτη
Pémpti
(Fifth) |
Παρασκευή
Paraskeví
(Preparation) |
Σάββατο (2)
Sávato
(Sabbath)
|
| Icelandic | (6)
(Sun day) |
(6)
(Moon day) |
(Third day) |
(3)
(Mid week day) |
(Fifth day) |
(Fast day) |
(4)
(Washing day)
|
| Armenian | Կիրակի
Kiraki
|
Երկուշաբթի
Yerkushabti
(two days
after Sabbath) |
Երեքշաբթի
Yerekshabti
(three days
after Sabbath) |
Չորեքշաբթի
Chorekshabti
(four days
after Sabbath) |
Հինգշաբթի
Hingshabti
(five days
after Sabbath) |
Ուրբաթ
Urbat |
Շաբաթ
Shabat (2)
(Sabbath)
|
| Georgian | კვირა
Kvira
(Lord) |
ორშაბათი
Oršabat'i
(two days
after Sabbath) |
სამშაბათი
Samšabat'i
(three days
after Sabbath) |
ოთხშაბათი
Ot'xšabat'i
(four days
after Sabbath) |
ხუთშაბათი
Xut'šabat'i
(five days
after Sabbath) |
პარასკები
Paraskevi (Preparation) |
შაბათი
Šabat'i (2)
(Sabbath)
|
| Kazakh |
zheksenbe
(first day) |
Düysenbi
(second day) |
Seysenbi
(third day) |
Särsenbi
(fourth day) |
Beysenbi
(fifth day) |
Juma
(week) |
Senbi
(Night and Day) shabAneh rooz
|
| Persian |
yekshanbeh
(first day) |
doshanbeh
(second day) |
seshanbeh
(third day) |
chaharshanbeh
(fourth day) |
panjshanbeh
(fifth day) |
, alt.
Adineh, alt. Jomeh
(day of faith, alt. gathering day) |
shanbeh
(night and day) shabAneh rooz
|
| Turkish |
(bazaar day) |
(after the bazaar) |
(third day) |
(fourth day) |
(fifth day) |
(gathering day) |
(after the gathering)
|
| Old Turkic | birinç kün
(first day) |
ikinç kün
(second day) |
üçünç kün
(third day) |
törtinç kün
(fourth day) |
beşinç kün
(fifth day) |
altınç kün
(sixth day) |
yetinç kün
(seventh day)
|
| Vietnamese | chủ nhật (Master's day) or
chúa nhật (1) (Lord's day) |
(ngày) thứ hai
(Second day) |
(ngày) thứ ba
(Third day) |
(ngày) thứ tư
(Fourth day) |
(ngày) thứ năm
(Fifth day) |
(ngày) thứ sáu
(Sixth day) |
(ngày) thứ bảy
(Seventh day)
|
| Starting on Monday
|
| Day |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Saturday |
Sunday
|
| Estonian | |
|
(Third) or Kesknädal (3) |
(Fourth) |
(ON Friádagr) |
(4) |
(Holy day)
|
| Polish |
(After no-work) |
(Second) |
(3)
(Middle) |
(Fourth) |
(Fifth) |
(2) |
(No work)
|
| Czech | (also Pondělek)
(After no-work) |
(also Úterek)
(Second) |
(3)
(Middle) |
(Fourth) |
(Fifth) |
(2) |
(No work)
|
| Serbian |
(After no-work) |
(Second)
(archaic root) |
(Middle) |
(Fourth) |
(Fifth) |
|
(No work)
|
| Croatian |
(After no-work) |
(Second)
|
(3)
(Middle) |
(Fourth) |
(Fifth) |
(2) |
(No work)
|
| Slovenian |
(After no-work) |
(Second) |
(3)
(Middle) |
(Fourth) |
(Fifth) |
(2) |
(No work)
|
| Bulgarian | понеделник
(After no-work) |
вторник
(Second) |
сряда (3)
(Middle) |
четвъртък
(Fourth) |
петък
(Fifth) |
събота (2)
(Sabbath) |
неделя
(No work)
|
| Macedonian | понеделник
(After no-work) |
вторник
(Second) |
среда (3)
(Middle) |
четврток
(Fourth) |
петок
(Fifth) |
сабота (2)
(Sabbath) |
недела
(No work)
|
| Hungarian |
(Head of the week) |
(Second) |
(3)
(Middle)
< Slavic |
(Fourth)
< Slavic |
(Fifth)
< Slavic |
(2) |
(Market day)
|
| Lithuanian (7) |
(First day) |
(Second day) |
(Third day) |
(Fourth day) |
(Fifth day) |
(Sixth day) |
(Seventh day)
|
| Russian |
ponedel'nik
(after no-work) |
vtornik
(second) |
(3)
sreda
(middle) |
chetverg
(fourth) |
pyatnitsa
(fifth) |
subbota
(sabbath) (2) |
voskresen'ye
(resurrection)
|
| Ukrainian |
ponedilok
(after no-work) |
vivtorok
(second) |
(3)
sereda
(middle) |
chetver
(fourth) |
p'yatnitsya
(fifth) |
subota
(sabbath) (2) |
nedilya
(no-work)
|
Chinese
(Standard Mandarin transcription in Hanyu Pinyin) |
xīngqī yī
(week: 1) |
xīngqī èr
(week: 2) |
xīngqī sān
(week: 3) |
xīngqī sì
(week: 4) |
xīngqī wǔ
(week: 5) |
xīngqī liù
(week: 6) |
xīngqī rì
(week: day)
or
xīngqí tiān
(week: day)
|
Mongolian
(numerical) |
neg deh odor
(first day) |
hoyor dahi odor
(second day) |
gurav dahi odor
(third day) |
dorov deh odor
(fourth day) |
tav dahi odor
(fifth day) |
hagas sain odor
(half weekend) |
buten sain odor
(full weekend)
|
| ISO 8601 # | 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7
|
| Starting on Saturday
|
| Day |
Saturday |
Sunday |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday
|
| Swahili | jumamosi
(first [day
of the] week) |
jumapili
(second [day
of the] week) |
jumatatu
(third [day
of the] week) |
jumanne
(fourth [day
of the] week) |
jumatano
(fifth [day
of the] week) |
alhamisi
(five)
Arabic |
ijumaa
(assembly)
Arabic
|
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