Names of the days of the week

Names of the days of the week in various languages

"Days of the Week" redirects here. For the song, see Days of the Week (song).

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Italian cameo bracelet representing the days of the week, corresponding to the planets as Roman gods: Diana as the Moon for Monday, Mars for Tuesday, Mercury for Wednesday, Jupiter for Thursday, Venus for Friday, Saturn for Saturday, and Apollo as the Sun for Sunday. Middle 19th century, Walters Art Museum Heptagram of the seven celestial bodies of the week

In a vast number of languages, the names given to the seven days of the week are derived from the names of the classical planets in Hellenistic astronomy, which were in turn named after contemporary deities, a system introduced by the Sumerians and later adopted by the Babylonians from whom the Roman Empire adopted the system during late antiquity.[1] In some other languages, the days are named after corresponding deities of the regional culture, beginning either with Sunday or with Monday. The seven-day week was adopted in early Christianity from the Hebrew calendar, and gradually replaced the Roman internundinum.[citation needed]

Sunday remained the first day of the week, being considered the day of the sun god Sol Invictus and the Lord's Day, while the Jewish Sabbath remained the seventh. The Babylonians invented the actual[clarification needed] seven-day week in 600 BCE, with Emperor Constantine making the Day of the Sun (dies Solis, "Sunday") a legal holiday centuries later.[2]

In the international standard ISO 8601, Monday is treated as the first day of the week, but in many countries it is counted as the second day of the week.

## Days named after planets

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### Greco-Roman tradition

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Further information: Week and Planetary hours

Between the first and third centuries CE, the Roman Empire gradually replaced the eight-day Roman nundinal cycle with the seven-day week. The earliest evidence for this new system is a Pompeiian graffito referring to 6 February (ante diem viii idus Februarias) of the year 60 CE as dies solis ("Sunday").[3] Another early witness is a reference to a lost treatise by Plutarch, written in about 100 CE, which addressed the question of: "Why are the days named after the planets reckoned in a different order from the 'actual' order?"[4] The treatise is lost, but the answer to the question is known; see planetary hours.[citation needed]

The Ptolemaic system of planetary spheres asserts that the order of the heavenly bodies from the farthest to the closest to the Earth is Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, and the Moon; objectively, the planets are ordered from slowest to fastest moving as they appear in the night sky.[5]

The days were named after the classical planets of Hellenistic astrology, in the order: Sun (Helios), Moon (Selene), Mars (Ares), Mercury (Hermes), Jupiter (Zeus), Venus (Aphrodite), and Saturn (Cronus).[6]

The seven-day week spread throughout the Roman Empire in late antiquity. By the fourth century CE, it was in wide use throughout the Empire. [citation needed]

The Greek and Latin names are as follows:

Day:
(see Irregularities) | Sunday
Sōl or Helios
(Sun)  | Monday
Luna or Selene
(Moon)  | Tuesday
Mars or Ares
(Mars)  | Wednesday
Mercurius or Hermes
(Mercury)  | Thursday
Jove or Zeus
(Jupiter)  | Friday
Venus or Aphrodite
(Venus)  | Saturday
Saturnus or Cronus
(Saturn)

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Greek[7] | ἡμέρα Ἡλίου
hēméra Hēlíou | ἡμέρα Σελήνης
hēméra Selḗnēs | ἡμέρα Ἄρεως
hēméra Áreōs | ἡμέρα Ἑρμοῦ
hēméra Hermoû | ἡμέρα Διός
hēméra Diós | ἡμέρα Ἀφροδίτης
hēméra Aphrodítēs | ἡμέρα Κρόνου
hēméra Krónou
Latin | diēs Sōlis | diēs Lūnae | diēs Mārtis | diēs Mercuriī | diēs Iovis | diēs Veneris | diēs Sāturnī

#### Romance languages

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Except for in Portuguese and Mirandese, the Romance languages preserved the Latin names, except for the names of Sunday, which was replaced by [dies] Dominicus (Dominica), that is, "the Lord's Day", and of Saturday, which was named for the Jewish Sabbath. Mirandese and Portuguese use numbered weekdays, but retain sábado and demingo/domingo for weekends.[8] Meanwhile, Galician occasionally uses them alongside the traditional Latin-derived names, albeit to a lesser extent (see below).

Day
(see Irregularities) | Sunday
Sōl (Sun) | Monday
Luna (Moon) | Tuesday
Mars (Mars) | Wednesday
Mercurius (Mercury) | Thursday
Jove (Jupiter) | Friday
Venus (Venus) | Saturday
Saturnus (Saturn)

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Portuguese | domingo [☉1] | segunda-feira | terça-feira | quarta-feira | quinta-feira | sexta-feira | sábado [♄1]
Galician | domingo [☉1] | luns / segunda feira  | martes / terza feira / terceira feira  | mércores / corta feira / cuarta feira  | xoves / quinta feira  | venres / sexta feira  | sábado [♄1]
Asturian | domingu [☉1] | llunes | martes | miércoles | xueves | vienres | sábadu [♄1]
Spanish | domingo [☉1] | lunes | martes | miércoles | jueves | viernes | sábado [♄1]
Aragonese | domenche [☉1] | luns | marz | miercres | chueus | viernes | sabado [♄1]
Occitan | dimenge [☉1] | diluns | dimars | dimècres | dijòus | divendres | dissabte [♄1]
Aranese Occitan | dimenge [☉1] | deluns  | dimars  | dimèrcles  | dijaus  | diuendres  | dissabte [♄1]
Catalan | diumenge [☉1] | dilluns | dimarts | dimecres | dijous | divendres | dissabte [♄1]
French | dimanche [☉1] | lundi | mardi | mercredi | jeudi | vendredi | samedi [♄1]
Italian | domenica [☉1] | lunedì | martedì | mercoledì | giovedì | venerdì | sabato [♄1]
Lombard (Milanese)  | domenega [☉1] | lunedì  | martedì  | mercoldì  | giovedì  | venerdì  | sabet [♄1]
Lombard (Bresciano)  | duminica [☉1] | lunedé  | martedé  | mercoldé  | gioedé  | venerdé  | sabot [♄1]
Ligurian | doménga [☉1] | lunedì  | mâtesdì  | mâcordì  | zéuggia  | venardì  | sàbbo [♄1]
Neapolitan | dummeneca [☉1] | lunnerì  | marterì  | miercurì  | gioverì  | viernarì  | sàbbatu [♄1]
Sicilian | dumìnica [☉1] | luni | marti | mèrcuri | jovi | vènniri | sàbbatu [♄1]
Corsican | dumenica [☉1] | luni | marti | màrcuri | ghjovi | vènnari | sàbatu [♄1]
Romanian | duminică [☉1] | luni | marți | miercuri | joi | vineri | sâmbătă [♄1]
Venetian | domenega [☉1] | luni | marti | mèrcore | zobia | vénare | sabo [♄1]
Sardinian | domíniga,
domiga,
etc.[note 1] | lunis  | martis,
maltis  | mélcuris,
mércunis,
etc.[note 2] | gióbia,
gioja,
etc.[note 3] | chenàbura,
cenarva,
etc.[note 4] | sàpadu,
sàuru,
etc.[note 5]
Friulian | domenie [☉1] | lunis | martars | miercus | joibe | vinars | sabide [♄1]
Val Badia Ladin | domënia  | lönesc  | mertesc,
dedolönesc  | mercui,
dedemesaledema  | jöbia  | vëndres  | sabeda
Gherdëina Ladin | dumënia  | lunesc  | merdi  | mierculdi  | juebia  | vënderdi  | sada
Puter Romansh | dumengia  | lündeschdi  | mardi  | marculdi  | gövgia  | venderdi  | sanda
Vallader Romansh | dumengia  | lündeschdi  | mardi  | marcurdi  | gövgia  | venderdi  | sonda
Surmiran Romansh | dumengia  | glindesde  | marde  | mesemda  | gievgia  | venderde  | sonda
Rumantsch Grischun | dumengia  | glindesdi  | mardi  | mesemna  | gievgia  | venderdi  | sonda
Sursilvan Romansh | dumengia  | gliendisdis  | mardis  | mesjamna  | gievgia  | venderdis  | sonda
Sutsilvan Romansh | dumeingia  | gliendasgis  | margis  | measeanda  | gievgia  | vendargis  | sonda

#### Celtic languages

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Early Old Irish adopted the names from Latin, but introduced separate terms of Norse origin for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, then later supplanted these with terms relating to church fasting practices.

Day
(see Irregularities) | Sunday
Sōl (Sun) | Monday
Luna (Moon) | Tuesday
Mars (Mars) | Wednesday
Mercurius (Mercury) | Thursday
Iuppiter (Jupiter) | Friday
Venus (Venus) | Saturday
Saturnus (Saturn)

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Old Irish[9] | Diu[10] srol
Dies scrol[11] | Diu luna[12] | Diu mart[13] | Diu iath[14] | Diu eathamon[15] | Diu triach[16] | Diu saturn
Old Irish (later)  | Diu domnica | Diu luna | Diu mart | Diu cétaín [☿2] | Diu eter dib aínib [♃1] | Diu aíne [♀1] | Diu saturn
Irish | An Domhnach [☉1]
Dé Domhnaigh | An Luan
Dé Luain | An Mháirt
Dé Máirt | An Chéadaoin [☿2]
Dé Céadaoin | An Déardaoin [♃1]
Déardaoin | An Aoine [♀1]
Dé hAoine | An Satharn
Dé Sathairn
Scottish Gaelic[17] | Didòmhnaich [☉1] or
Latha/Là na Sàbaid  | Diluain | Dimàirt | Diciadain [☿2] | Diardaoin [♃1] | Dihaoine [♀1] | Disathairne
Manx | Jedoonee [☉1] | Jelune | Jemayrt | Jecrean [☿2] | Jerdein [♃1] | Jeheiney [♀1] | Jesarn
Welsh | dydd Sul | dydd Llun | dydd Mawrth | dydd Mercher | dydd Iau | dydd Gwener | dydd Sadwrn
Cornish | Dy' Sul | Dy' Lun | Dy' Meurth | Dy' Mergher | Dy' Yow | Dy' Gwener | Dy' Sadorn
Breton | Disul | Dilun | Dimeurzh | Dimerc'her | Diriaou | Digwener | Disadorn

#### Albanian language

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Albanian adopted the Latin terms for Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday, translated the Latin terms for Sunday and Monday using the native names of Diell and Hënë, respectively, and replaced the Latin terms for Thursday and Friday with the equivalent native deity names Enji and Prende, respectively.[18]

Day:  | Sunday
Sōl (Sun) | Monday
Luna (Moon) | Tuesday
Mars (Mars) | Wednesday
Mercurius (Mercury) | Thursday
Iuppiter (Jupiter) | Friday
Venus (Venus) | Saturday
Saturnus (Saturn)

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Albanian | e diel | e hënë | e martë | e mërkurë | e enjte | e premte | e shtunë

#### Adoptions from Romance

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Other languages adopted the week together with the Latin (Romance) names for the days of the week in the colonial period. Several constructed languages also adopted the Latin terminology.

Day:
(see Irregularities) | Sunday
Sōl (Sun) | Monday
Luna (Moon) | Tuesday
Mars (Mars) | Wednesday
Mercurius (Mercury) | Thursday
Iuppiter (Jupiter) | Friday
Venus (Venus) | Saturday
Saturnus (Saturn)

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Filipino | Linggó [☉1] | Lunes | Martes | Miyerkoles | Huwebes or colloquially Webes | Biyernes | Sabado [♄1]
Chamorro | Damenggo | Lunes | Mattes | Metkoles | Huebes | Betnes | Sabalu
Māori[19] | Rā Tapu [not celestially named] (rā + tapu = "holy day")  | Rāhina (rā + Māhina = day + Moon)  | Rātū (rā + Tūmatauenga = day + Mars)  | Rāapa (rā + Apārangi = day + Mercury)  | Rāpare (rā + Pareārau = day + Jupiter)  | Rāmere (rā + Mere = day + Venus)  | [Rā Horoi] [not celestially named] (rā + horoi = "washing day")
Uropi | Soldia | Lundia | Mardia | Mididia | Zusdia | Wendia | Sabadia
Universalglot | diodai | lundai | mardai | erdai | jovdai | vendai | samdai
Neo | Domin(ko) | Lundo | Tud | Mirko | Jov | Venso | Sab
Idiom Neutral | soldi | lundi | marsdi | merkurdi | yovdi | vendrdi | saturndi
Reform-Neutral | soldí | lundí | marsdí | mercurdí | jovdí | vendredí | saturndí
ApI Interlingua | sol-die | luna-die | marte-die | mercurio-die | jove-die | venere-die | sabbato,
saturno-die
Interlingua | dominica [☉1] | lunedi | martedi | mercuridi | jovedi | venerdi | sabbato [♄1]
Interlingue | soledí | lunedí | mardí | mercurdí | jovedí | venerdí | saturdí
Lingua Franca Nova | soldi | lundi | martedi | mercurdi | jovedi | venerdi | saturdi
Mondial | soldi | lundi | mardi | mierdi | jodi | vendi | samdi
INTAL | sundi | lundi | mardi | merkurdi | jodi | venerdi | saturdi
Novial | sundie | lundie | mardie | mercurdie, merkurdie (older) | jodie | venerdie | saturdie
Romániço | Domínico | Lun-dio | Marti-dio | Mercurii-dio | Jov-dio | Véner-dio | Sábato
Ido | sundio | lundio | mardio | merkurdio | jovdio | venerdio | saturdio
Esperanto | dimanĉo [☉1] | lundo | mardo | merkredo | ĵaŭdo | vendredo | sabato [♄1]

With the exception of sabato, the Esperanto names are all from French, cf. French dimanche, lundi, mardi, mercredi, jeudi, vendredi.

### Germanic tradition

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Further information: Germanic calendar

The Germanic peoples adapted the system introduced by the Romans by substituting the Germanic deities for the Roman ones (with the exception of Saturday) in a process known as interpretatio germanica. The date of the introduction of this system is not known exactly, but it must have happened later than 100 AD but before the introduction of Christianity during the 6th to 7th centuries, i.e., during the final phase or soon after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire.[20] This period is later than the Common Germanic stage, but still during the phase of undifferentiated West Germanic. The names of the days of the week in North Germanic languages were not calqued from Latin directly, but taken from the West Germanic names.

* Sunday: Old English Sunnandæg (pronounced [ˈsunnɑndæj]), meaning "sun's day". This is a translation of the Latin phrase diēs Sōlis. English, like most of the Germanic languages, preserves the day's association with the sun. 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). In both West Germanic and North Germanic mythology, the Sun is personified as Sunna/Sól.
* Monday: Old English Mōnandæg (pronounced [ˈmoːnɑndæj]), meaning "Moon's day". This is equivalent to the Latin name diēs Lūnae. In North Germanic mythology, the Moon is personified as Máni.
* Tuesday: Old English Tīwesdæg (pronounced [ˈtiːwezdæj]), meaning "Tiw's day". Tiw (Norse Týr) was a one-handed god associated with single combat and pledges in Norse mythology and also attested prominently in wider Germanic paganism. The name of the day is also related to the Latin name diēs Mārtis, "Day of Mars" (the Roman god of war).
* Wednesday: Old English Wōdnesdæg (pronounced [ˈwoːdnezdæj]) meaning the day of the Germanic god Woden (known as Óðinn among the North Germanic peoples), and a prominent god of the Anglo-Saxons (and other Germanic peoples) in England until about the seventh century. This corresponds to the Latin counterpart diēs Mercuriī, "Day of Mercury", as both are deities of magic and knowledge. Importantly, both are also psychopomps, carrying the souls of the dead to the afterlife. The German Mittwoch, the Low German Middeweek, the miðviku- in Icelandic miðvikudagur and the Finnish keskiviikko all mean "mid-week".
* Thursday: Old English Þūnresdæg (pronounced [ˈθuːnrezdæj]), meaning 'Þunor's day'. Þunor means thunder or its personification, the Norse god known in Modern English as Thor. Similarly Dutch donderdag, German Donnerstag ('thunder's day'), Finnish torstai, and Scandinavian torsdag ('Thor's day'). "Thor's day" corresponds to Latin diēs Iovis, "day of Jupiter" (the Roman god of thunder).
* Friday: Old English Frīgedæg (pronounced [ˈfriːjedæj]), meaning the day of the Anglo-Saxon goddess Frīg. The Norse name for the planet Venus was Friggjarstjarna, 'Frigg's star'.[21] It is based on the Latin diēs Veneris, "Day of Venus".
* Saturday: 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 [ˈsæturnezdæj]). In Latin, it was diēs Sāturnī, "Day of Saturn". The Nordic laugardagur, leygardagur, laurdag, etc. deviate significantly as they have no reference to either the Norse or the Roman pantheon; they derive from Old Nordic laugardagr, literally "washing-day". The German Sonnabend (mainly used in northern and eastern Germany) and the Low German Sünnavend mean "Sunday Eve"; the German word Samstag derives from the name for Shabbat.

Day:
(see Irregularities) | Sunday
Sunna/Sól | Monday
Mona/Máni | Tuesday
Tiw/Tyr | Wednesday
Woden/Odin | Thursday
Thunor/Thor | Friday
Frige or Freya | Saturday
Saturn

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Old English | Sunnandæg | Mōnandæg | Tīwesdæg | Wōdnesdæg | Þunresdæg | Frīgedæg | Sæternesdæg
Old Saxon | Sunnundag | *Mānundag | *Tiuwesdag *Thingesdag[♂1] | Wōdanesdag | *Thunaresdag | Frīadag | *Sunnunāƀand,[♄3] *Satarnesdag
Old High German | Sunnûntag | Mânetag | Zîestag | Wuotanestag | Donarestag | Frîjatag | Sunnûnâband,[♄3] Sambaztag[♄1]
Middle Low German | Sunnedag | Manedag | Dingesdag [♂1] | Wodenesdag | Donersdag | Vrīdag | Sunnenavend,[♄3] Satersdag
German | Sonntag | Montag | Dienstag,[♂1] Ziestag (Alemannic German)  | Mittwoch[☿1] (older Wutenstag)  | Donnerstag | Freitag | Samstag,[♄1] Sonnabend,[♄3] (in parts of Eastern Germany)
Yiddish | Zuntik – זונטיק | Montik – מאנטיק | Dinstik – דינסטיק[♂1] | Mitvokh – מיטוואך[☿1] | Donershtik – דאנערשטיק | Fraytik – פרײַטיק | Shabbes – שבת[♄1]
Luxembourgish | Sonndeg | Méindeg | Dënschdeg[♂1] | Mëttwoch[☿1] | Donneschdeg | Freideg | Samschdeg[♄1]
Scots | Saubath,[♄1] Sunday | Monanday | Tysday | Wadensday | Fuirsday | Friday | Seturday
Dutch | zondag | maandag | dinsdag[♂1] | woensdag | donderdag | vrijdag | zaterdag
Afrikaans | Sondag | Maandag | Dinsdag[♂1] | Woensdag | Donderdag | Vrydag | Saterdag
Low German | Sünndag | Maandag | Dingsdag[♂1] | Middeweek,[☿1] Goonsdag (rarely Woonsdag)  | Dünnerdag | Freedag | Sünnavend,[♄3] Saterdag
West Frisian | snein | moandei | tiisdei | woansdei | tongersdei | freed | sneon,[♄3] saterdei
Saterland Frisian | Sundai | Moundai | Täisdai | Middewíek | Tuunsdai | Fräindai | Snäivende, Sneeuwende
Heligoland
North Frisian | Sendai  | Mundai  | Taisdai  | Meddeweeken  | Tünnersdai  | Fraidai  | Senin
Amrum/Föhr
North Frisian | söndai  | mundai  | teisdai  | wäärnsdei (Amrum), weedensdai (Föhr) | süürsdai (Amrum), tüürsdai (Föhr) | freidai  | söninj-er, saninj-er
Sylt North Frisian | Sendai  | Mondai  | Tiisdai  | Winjsdai  | Türsdai  | Friidai  | Seninj-en
Wiedingharde
North Frisian | sändäi  | mundäi, moondai  | tee(s)däi-e  | wjinsdäi  | tördäi-e, türdai-e  | fraidäi  | sänjin-e
Mooring North Frisian | saandi  | moundi  | täisdi  | weensdi  | törsdi  | fraidi  | saneene
Karrharde
North Frisian | sandäi  | moundäi  | täi(er)sdäi  | weene(s)dai, weensdai  | tönersdäi  | fräidäi  | saneene
Northern Goesharde North Frisian | saandi (Ockholm), sandi (Langenhorn) | moondi (Ockholm), moundi (Langenhorn) | teesdi (Ockholm), täisdi (Langenhorn) | weensdi (Ockholm), winsdi (Langenhorn) | tünersdi  | fraidi  | saneene
Halligen North Frisian | sondii  | mööndii  | taisdii  | maaderwich  | tonersdii  | fraidii  | soneene
Icelandic | sunnudagur | mánudagur | þriðjudagur[♂3] | miðvikudagur[☿1] | fimmtudagur[♃3] | föstudagur[♀1] | laugardagur[♄2]
Old Norse | sunnudagr | mánadagr | tysdagr | óðinsdagr | þórsdagr | frjádagr | laugardagr,[♄2] sunnunótt[♄3]
Faroese | sunnudagur | mánadagur | týsdagur | mikudagur,[☿1] ónsdagur (Suðuroy)  | hósdagur, tórsdagur (Suðuroy)  | fríggjadagur | leygardagur[♄2]
Nynorsk Norwegian | sundag/søndag | måndag | tysdag | onsdag | torsdag | fredag | laurdag[♄2]
Bokmål Norwegian | søndag | mandag | tirsdag | onsdag | torsdag | fredag | lørdag[♄2]
Danish | søndag | mandag | tirsdag | onsdag | torsdag | fredag | lørdag[♄2]
Swedish | söndag | måndag | tisdag | onsdag | torsdag | fredag | lördag[♄2]
Elfdalian | sunndag | mondag | tisdag | ųosdag | tųosdag | frjådag | lovdag

#### Adoptions from Germanic

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Day
(see Irregularities) | Sunday
Sunna/Sól | Monday
Mona/Máni | Tuesday
Tiw/Tyr | Wednesday
Woden/Odin | Thursday
Thunor/Thor | Friday
Frige or Freya | Saturday
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Finnish | sunnuntai | maanantai | tiistai | keskiviikko[☿1] | torstai | perjantai | lauantai[♄2]
Meänkieli | pyhä(päivä), sunnuntai  | maanantai  | tiistai  | keskiviikko  | tuorestai  | perjantai  | lau(v)antai
Kven | pyhä, sunnuntai  | maanantai  | tiistai  | keskiviikko  | tuorestai  | perjantai  | lauvantai
Southern Sami | aejlege  | måanta  | dæjsta  | gaskevåhkoe  | duarsta  | bearjadahke  | laav(v)adahke
Ume Sami | ájliege  | mánnuodahkka  | dïjstahkka  | gasskavahkkuo  | duarastahkka  | bierjiedahkka  | lávvuodahkka
Pite Sami | ájlek  | mánnodak  | dijstak  | gasskavahko  | duorasdak  | bärrjedak  | lávvodak
Lule Sami | sådnåbiejvve, ájllek  | mánnodahka  | dijstahka  | gasskavahkko  | duorastahka  | bierjjedahka  | lávvodahka
Northern Sami | sotnabeaivi  | vuossárga, mánnodat  | maŋŋebárga, disdat  | gaskavahkku  | duorastat  | bearjadat  | lávvardat, lávvordat
Inari Sami | pasepeivi  | vuossargâ  | majebargâ  | koskokko  | tuorâstâh, turâstâh  | vástuppeivi  | lávárdâh, lávurdâh
Skolt Sami
(for comparison)  | pâʹsspeiʹvv  | vuõssargg  | mââibargg  | seärad  | neljdpeiʹvv  | piâtnâc, väʹšnnpeiʹvv, västtpeiʹvv  | sueʹvet
Māori
(transliteration; translation)  | Wiki;[☉8] Rātapu | Mane; Rāhina | Tūrei; Rātū | Wenerei; Rāapa | Tāite; Rāpare | Paraire; Rāmere | Hāterei; Rāhoroi
Tok Pisin (Melanesian Pidgin)  | sande  | mande  | tunde  | trinde  | fonde  | fraide  | sarere
Volapük | sudel  | mudel  | tudel  | vedel  | dödel  | fridel  | zädel

### Hindu tradition

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Further information: Navagraha

Hindu astrology uses the concept of days under the regency of a planet[clarification needed] under the term vāsara/vāra, the days of the week being called sūrya-/ravi-/āditya, chandra-/soma-, maṅgala-, budha-, guru-/bṛhaspati-, śukra-, and śani-vāsara. śukrá is a name of Venus (regarded as a son of Bhṛgu); guru is here a title of Bṛhaspati, and hence of Jupiter; budha "Mercury" is regarded as a son of Soma, that is, the Moon.[22] Knowledge of Greek astrology existed since about the 2nd century BC[citation needed], but references to the vāsara occur somewhat later, during the Gupta period (Yājñavalkya Smṛti, c. 3rd to 5th century AD), that is, at roughly the same period or before the system was introduced in the Roman Empire.[citation needed]

#### In languages of the Indian subcontinent

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| Sunday
the Sun
(Sūrya, Ravi, Bhānu) | Monday
the Moon
(Chandra, Indu, Soma) | Tuesday
Mars
(Mangala) | Wednesday
Mercury
(Budha) | Thursday
Jupiter
(Bṛhaspati, Guru) | Friday
Venus
(Shukra) | Saturday
Saturn
(Shani)

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Angika | 𑂉𑂞𑂥𑂰𑂩/𑂩𑂸𑂥
Etbaar/Rôb | 𑂮𑂷𑂧𑂰𑂩
Somaar | 𑂧𑂁𑂏𑂪
Mangal | 𑂥𑂳𑂡
Budh | 𑂥𑂹𑂩𑂵𑂮𑂹𑂣𑂞
Brespat | 𑂮𑂳𑂍𑂹𑂍𑂳𑂩
Sukkur | 𑂮𑂢𑂱𑂒𑂹𑂒𑂩
Sanichchar
Assamese | দেওবাৰ/ৰবিবাৰ
Deubar/Robibar | সোমবাৰ
Xombar | মঙ্গলবাৰ
Monggolbar | বুধবাৰ
Budhbar | বৃহস্পতিবাৰ
Brihôshpotibar | শুক্রবাৰ
Xukrobar | শনিবাৰ
Xonibar
Balti | Adeed
عدید | Tsandar
چَندار  | Angaru
انگارو  | Botu
بوتو  | Brespod
بریس پود  | Shugoru
شوگورو | Shingsher
شنگشر
Bengali | রবিবার
Robibar | সোমবার
Śōmbar | মঙ্গলবার
Moṅgolbar | বুধবার
Budhbar | বৃহস্পতিবার/বিষ্যুদবার
Brihośpotibar/Biśśudbar | শুক্রবার/জুম্মাবার
Śukrobar/Jummabar[♀4] | শনিবার
Śonibar
Bhojpuri | एतवार
Aitwār | सोमार
Somār | मंगर
Mangar | बुध
Budh | बियफे
Bi'phey | सुक्क
Sukk | सनिच्चर
Sanichchar
Burushaski | Adit
اَدِت | Tsandurah
ژَندُرَہ | Angāro
اَنگارو | Bodo
بودو  | Birēspat
بِریسپَت | Shukro
شُکرو | Shimshēr
شِمشیر
Chitrali
(Khowar) | Yakshambey
یک شمبے | Doshambey
دو شمبے[☽4] | Seshambey
سہ شمبے | Charshambey
چار شمبے | Pachambey
پچھمبے  | Adina
آدینہ [♀3] | Shambey
شمبے
Gujarati | રવિવાર
Ravivār | સોમવાર
Somvār | મંગળવાર
Mangaḷvār | બુધવાર
Budhvār | ગુરૂવાર
Guruvār | શુક્રવાર
Shukravār | શનિવાર
Shanivār
Hindi | रविवार/सूर्यवार
Ravivār/Sūryavār | सोमवार/चन्द्रवार
Somvār/Chandravār | मंगलवार
Mangalvār | बुधवार
Budhavār | गुरुवार
Guruvār | शुक्रवार
Shukravār | शनिवार
Shanivār
Hindko | Atwaar
اتوار | Suwar
سؤ وار | Mungal
منگل | Bud
بدھ | Jumiraat
جمعرات | Jummah
جمعہ | Khali
خالي
Hmar | Pathienni  | Thawṭanni  | Thawleni  | Nilaini  | Ningani  | Zirtawpni  | Inrinni
Kannada | ಭಾನುವಾರ
Bhanu Vaara | ಸೋಮವಾರ
Soma Vaara | ಮಂಗಳವಾರ
Mangala Vaara | ಬುಧವಾರ
Budha Vaara | ಗುರುವಾರ
Guru Vaara | ಶುಕ್ರವಾರ
Shukra Vaara | ಶನಿವಾರ
Shani Vaara
Kashmiri | آتھوار
/aːtʰwaːr/ | ژٔنٛدرٕوار
/t͡səndrɨwaːr/ | بوموار/ بۄنٛوار
/boːmwaːr/ or /bɔ̃waːr/ | بۄدوار
/bɔdwaːr/ | برَٛسوار/ برٛؠسوار
/braswaːr/ or /brʲaswaːr/ | شۆکُروار/ جُمعہ
/ʃokurwaːr/ or /jumaːh/ | بَٹہٕ وار
/baʈɨwaːr/
Konkani | आयतार
Āytār | सोमार
Somaar | मंगळार
Mangaḷār | बुधवार
Budhavār | भीरेस्तार
Bhirestār | शुक्रार
Shukrār | शेनवार
Shenvār
Maithili | 𑒩𑒫𑒱𑒠𑒱𑒢
Ravidin | 𑒮𑒼𑒧𑒠𑒱𑒢
Somdin | 𑒧𑓀𑒑𑒪𑒠𑒱𑒢
Maṅgaldin | 𑒥𑒳𑒡𑒠𑒱𑒢
Budhdin | 𑒥𑒵𑒯𑒮𑓂𑒣𑒞𑒲𑒠𑒱𑒢
Brihaspatidin | 𑒬𑒳𑒏𑓂𑒩𑒠𑒱𑒢
Śukradin | 𑒬𑒢𑒲𑒠𑒱𑒢
Śanidin
Malayalam | ഞായര്‍
Nhāyar | തിങ്കള്‍
Tingal | ചൊവ്വ
Chovva | ബുധന്‍
Budhan | വ്യാഴം
Vyāzham | വെള്ളി
Velli | ശനി
Shani
Maldivian | އާދީއްތަ
Aadheeththa | ހޯމަ
Hoama | އަންގާރަ
Angaara | ބުދަ
Budha | ބުރާސްފަތި
Buraasfathi | ހުކުރު
Hukuru | ހޮނިހިރު
Honihiru
Marathi | रविवार
Ravivār | सोमवार
Somavār | मंगळवार
Mangaḷavār | बुधवार
Budhavār | गुरूवार
Guruvār | शुक्रवार
Shukravār | शनिवार
Shanivār
Nepali | आइतवार
Aaitabar | सोमवार
Sombar | मंगलवार
Mangalbar | बुधवार
Budhabar | बिहिवार
Bihibar | शुक्रवार
Sukrabar | शनिवार
Sanibar
Odia | ରବିବାର
Rabibāra | ସୋମବାର
Somabāra | ମଙ୍ଗଳବାର
Maṅgaḷabāra | ବୁଧବାର
Budhabāra | ଗୁରୁବାର
Gurubāra | ଶୁକ୍ରବାର
Sukrabāra | ଶନିବାର
Sanibāra
Pashto | Etwar
يونۍ | Gul
دوه نۍ | Nehi
درېنۍ | Shoro
څلرنۍ | Ziarat
پنځه نۍ | Jumma
جمعه | Khali
پيلنۍ
Punjabi
(Gurmukhi) | ਐਤਵਾਰ
Aitvār | ਸੋਮਵਾਰ
Sōmvār | ਮੰਗਲਵਾਰ
Mangalvār | ਬੁੱਧਵਾਰ
Buddhvār | ਵੀਰਵਾਰ
Vīrvār | ਸ਼ੁੱਕਰਵਾਰ
Shukkarvār or
ਜੁਮਾ
Jumā | ਸ਼ਨਿੱਚਰਵਾਰ
Shaniccharvār

or ਸ਼ਨੀਵਾਰ
Shanīvār or ਸਨਿੱਚਰਵਾਰ
Saniccharvār or ਸਨੀਵਾਰ
Sanīvār

Punjabi
(Shahmukhi) | Aitwār
ایتوار | Somvār
سوموار | Mangalvār
منگلوار | Buddhvār
بدھوار | Vīr vār
ویر وار | Jumāh جمعہ or

Shukkarvār شکروار

| Hafta ہفتہ or

Chanicchar چھنچھر or

Chaniccharvār چھنچھروار

Rohingya | rooibar | cómbar | mongolbar | buidbar | bicíbbar | cúkkurbar | cónibar
Santali | ᱥᱤᱸᱜᱮ ᱢᱟᱦᱟᱸ
sim̐ge māhām̐ | ᱚᱛᱮ ᱢᱟᱦᱟᱸ
ate māhām̐ | ᱵᱟᱞᱮ ᱢᱟᱦᱟᱸ
bāle māhām̐ | ᱥᱟᱹᱜᱩᱱ ᱢᱟᱦᱟᱸ
sôgun māhām̐ | ᱥᱟᱹᱨᱫᱤ ᱢᱟᱦᱟᱸ
sôrdi māhām̐ | ᱡᱟᱹᱨᱩᱢ ᱢᱟᱦᱟᱸ
jôrum māhām̐ | ᱧᱩᱦᱩᱢ ᱢᱟᱦᱟᱸ
ñuhum māhām̐
Sanskrit | भानुवासर
Bhānuvāsara | इन्दुवासर
Induvāsara | भौमवासर
Bhaumavāsara | सौम्यवासर
Saumyavāsara | गुरुवासर
Guruvāsara | भृगुवासर
Bhṛguvāsara | स्थिरवासर
Sthiravāsara
Saurashtra  | Aitār  | Somār  | Monglār  | Budhār  | Bestār  | Sukrār  | Senmār
Shina | Adit
ادیت | Tsunduro
تساند ورؤ | Ungaro
نگارو | Budo
بوڈو | Brespat
بیرے سپاٹ | Shukur
شوکر | Shimsher
شیم شےر
Sindhi | Ācharu
آچَرُ or Ārtvāru آرتوارُ‎ | Sūmaru
سُومَرُ | Angāro
اَنڱارو or Mangalu مَنگلُ | Arbā
اَربع or Budharu ٻُڌَرُ | Khamīsa
خَميِسَ or Vispati وِسپَتِ‎ | Jum'o
جُمعو or Shukru شُڪرُ | Chancharu
ڇَنڇَرُ or Śanscharu شَنسچَرُ
Sinhala | ඉරිදා
Irida | සඳුදා
Sanduda | අඟහරුවාදා
Angaharuwada | බදාදා
Badada | බ්‍රහස්පතින්දා
Brahaspathinda | සිකුරාදා
Sikurada | සෙනසුරාදා
Senasurada
Tamil | ஞாயிறு
Ñāyiṟu | திங்கள்
Tiṅkaḷ | செவ்வாய்
Cevvāy | புதன்
Putaṉ | வியாழன்
Viyāḻaṉ | வெள்ளி
Veḷḷi | சனி
Caṉi
Telugu | ఆదివారం
Aadi Vāram | సోమవారం
Soma Vāram | మంగళవారం
Mangala Vāram | బుధవారం
Budha Vāram | గురువారం
Guru Vāram | శుక్రవారం
Sukra Vāram | శనివారం
Sani Vāram
Urdu | Itwār
اتوار | Pīr
پیر[☽4] | Mangal
منگل | Budh
بدھ | Jumerāt
جمعرات | Jum'ah
جمعہ[♀4] | Haftah
ہفتہ [♄6]

#### Southeast Asian languages

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The Southeast Asian tradition also uses the Hindu names of the days of the week. Hindu astrology adopted the concept of days under the regency of a planet under the term vāra, the days of the week being called āditya-, soma-, maṅgala-, budha-, guru-, śukra-, and śani-vāra. śukrá is a name of Venus (regarded as a son of Bhṛgu); guru is here a title of Bṛhaspati, and hence of Jupiter; budha "Mercury" is regarded as a son of Soma, that is, the Moon.[23]

| Sunday
the Sun
(Aditya, Ravi) | Monday
the Moon
(Soma, Chandra, Indu) | Tuesday
Mars
(Mangala, Angaraka) | Wednesday
Mercury
(Budha) | Thursday
Jupiter
(Bṛhaspati, Guru) | Friday
Venus
(Shukra) | Saturday
Saturn
(Shani)

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Burmese | တနင်္ဂနွေ[☉9]
IPA: [tənɪ̀ɰ̃ ɡənwè]
(ta.nangga.new) | တနင်္လာ[☽5]
IPA: [tənɪ̀ɰ̃ là]
(ta.nangla) | အင်္ဂါ
IPA: [ɪ̀ɰ̃ ɡà]
(Angga) | ဗုဒ္ဓဟူး
IPA: [boʊʔ dəhú]
(Buddhahu)
(afternoon=new day)
ရာဟု
Rahu | ကြာသာပတေး
IPA: [tɕà ðà bədé]
(Krasapate) | သောကြာ
IPA: [θaʊʔ tɕà]
(Saukra) | စနေ
IPA: [sənè]
(Cane)
Mon | တ္ၚဲ အဒိုတ်
[ŋoa ətɜ̀t]
from Sans. āditya | တ္ၚဲ စန်
[ŋoa cɔn]
from Sans. candra | တ္ၚဲ အၚါ
[ŋoa əŋɛ̀a]
from Sans. aṅgāra | တ္ၚဲ ဗုဒ္ဓဝါ
[ŋoa pùt-həwɛ̀a]
from Sans. budhavāra | တ္ၚဲ ဗြဴဗ္တိ
[ŋoa pɹɛ̀apətɔeʔ]
from Sans. bṛhaspati | တ္ၚဲ သိုက်.
[ŋoa sak]
from Sans. śukra | တ္ၚဲ သ္ၚိ သဝ်
[ŋoa hɔeʔ sɔ]
from Sans. śani
Khmer | ថ្ងៃអាទិត្យ
[tŋaj ʔaːtɨt] | ថ្ងៃចន្ទ
[tŋaj can] | ថ្ងៃអង្គារ
[tŋaj ʔɑŋkiə] | ថ្ងៃពុធ
[tŋaj put] | ថ្ងៃព្រហស្បត្ណិ
[tŋaj prɔhoə̯h] | ថ្ងៃសុក្រ
[tŋaj sok] | ថ្ងៃសៅរ៍
[tŋaj saʋ]
Lao | ວັນອາທິດ
[wán ʔàːtʰīt] | ວັນຈັນ
[wán càn] | ວັນອັງຄານ
[wán ʔàŋkʰáːn] | ວັນພຸດ
[wán pʰūt] | ວັນພະຫັດ
[wán pʰāhát] | ວັນສຸກ
[wán súk] | ວັນເສົາ
[wán sǎu]
Cham | Adit  | Thôm  | Angar  | But  | jip  | Suk  | Thanưchăn
Shan | ဝၼ်းဢႃတိတ်ႉ
IPA: [wan˦ ʔaː˩ tit˥] | ဝၼ်းၸၼ်
IPA: [wan˦ tsan˩] | ဝၼ်းဢင်းၵၼ်း
IPA: [wan˦ ʔaŋ˦ kan˦] | ဝၼ်းၽုတ်ႉ
IPA: [wan˦ pʰut˥] | ဝၼ်းၽတ်း
IPA: [wan˦ pʰat˦] | ဝၼ်းသုၵ်း
IPA: [wan˦ sʰuk˦] | ဝၼ်းသဝ်
IPA: [wan˦ sʰaw˩]
Thai | วันอาทิตย์
Wan Āthit  | วันจันทร์
Wan Chan  | วันอังคาร
Wan Angkhān  | วันพุธ
Wan Phut  | วันพฤหัสบดี
Wan Phruehatsabodi  | วันศุกร์
Wan Suk  | วันเสาร์
Wan Sao
Javanese | ꦫꦢꦶꦠꦾ
Raditya  | ꦱꦺꦴꦩ
Soma  | ꦲꦁꦒꦫ
Anggara  | ꦧꦸꦢ
Buda  | ꦉꦱ꧀ꦥꦠꦶ
Respati  | ꦱꦸꦏꦿ
Sukra  | ꦠꦸꦩ꧀ꦥꦼꦏ꧀
Tumpek
Balinese | ᬋᬤᬶᬢᬾ
Redité  | ᬲᭀᬫ
Soma  | ᬳᬂᬕᬭ
Anggara  | ᬩᬸᬤ
Buda  | ᬯᬺᬲ᭄ᬧᬢᬶ
Wrespati  | ᬲᬸᬓ᭄ᬭ
Sukra  | ᬲᬦᬶᬲ᭄ᬘᬭ
Saniscara
Sundanese | ᮛᮓᮤᮒᮦ
Radité  | ᮞᮧᮙ
Soma  | ᮃᮀᮌᮛ
Anggara  | ᮘᮥᮓ
Buda  | ᮛᮨᮞ᮪ᮕᮒᮤ
Respati  | ᮞᮥᮊᮢ
Sukra  | ᮒᮥᮙ᮪ᮕᮨᮊ᮪
Tumpek
Toba Batak | Artia  | Suma  | Anggara  | Muda  | Boraspati  | Singkora  | Samisara
Angkola-Mandailing Batak | Arita  | Suma  | Anggara  | Muda  | Boraspati  | Sikkora  | Samisara
Simalungun Batak | Aditia  | Suma  | Anggara  | Mudaha  | Boraspati  | Sihora  | Samisara
Karo Batak | Aditia  | Suma  | Nggara  | Budaha  | Beraspati  | Cukra  | Belah Naik
Pakpak Batak | Antia  | Suma  | Anggara  | Budaha/Muda  | Beraspati  | Cukerra  | Belah Naik

#### Northeast Asian languages

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| Sunday
the Sun
(Aditya, Ravi) | Monday
the Moon
(Soma, Chandra, Indu) | Tuesday
Mars
(Mangala, Angāraka) | Wednesday
Mercury
(Budha) | Thursday
Jupiter
(Bṛhaspati, Guru) | Friday
Venus
(Shukra) | Saturday
Saturn
(Shani)

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Mongolian | адъяа
ad'yaa  | сумъяа
sum'yaa  | ангараг
angarag  | буд
bud  | бархабадь
barhabad'  | сугар
sugar  | санчир
sanchir
Kalmyk | адъян өдр
ad'yan ödr  | сумъян өдр
sum'yan ödr  | мингъян өдр
ming'yan ödr  | будан өдр
budan ödr  | гуръян өдр
gur'yan ödr  | шикрян өдр
shikr'yan ödr  | шанун өдр
shanun ödr

### East Asian tradition

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The East Asian naming system for the days of the week closely parallels that of the Latin system and is ordered after the "Seven Luminaries" (七曜 qī yào), which consists of the Sun, Moon and the five classical planets visible to the naked eye.

The Chinese had apparently adopted the seven-day week from the Hellenistic system by the 4th century AD, although by which route is not entirely clear. It was again transmitted to China in the 8th century AD by Manichaeans, via the country of Kang (a Central Asian polity near Samarkand).[24] The 4th-century AD date, according to the Cihai encyclopedia,[year needed] is due to a reference to Fan Ning (范寧), an astrologer of the Jin dynasty. The renewed adoption from Manichaeans in the 8th century AD (Tang dynasty) is documented with the writings of the Chinese Buddhist monk Yijing and the Ceylonese Buddhist monk Bu Kong.

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 no 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. In China, with the founding of the Republic of China in 1911, Monday through Saturday in China are now named after the luminaries implicitly with the numbers.

For Standard Chinese nomenclature of the days of the week, see § Days numbered from Monday.

For more information on the Chinese ten-day week, see Chinese calendar.

For more information on the five elements and their relation to the planets, see Chinese astrology and Wuxing (Chinese philosophy).

Pronunciations for Classical Chinese names are given in Standard Chinese.
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Celestial Object  | Sun (日)
First Star – Sun (太陽星)  | Moon (月)
Second Star – Moon (太陰星)  | Mars (火星)
Third Star – Fire (熒惑星)  | Mercury (水星)
Fourth Star – Water (辰星)  | Jupiter (木星)
Fifth Star – Wood (歲星)  | Venus (金星)
Sixth Star – Metal or Gold (太白星)  | Saturn (土星)
Seventh Star – Earth or Soil (鎮星)
Chinese | 日曜日
Rìyàorì | 月曜日
Yuèyàorì | 火曜日
Huǒyàorì | 水曜日
Shuǐyàorì | 木曜日
Mùyàorì | 金曜日
Jīnyàorì | 土曜日
Tǔyàorì
Japanese | 日曜日
Nichiyōbi | 月曜日
Getsuyōbi | 火曜日
Kayōbi | 水曜日
Suiyōbi | 木曜日
Mokuyōbi | 金曜日
Kin'yōbi | 土曜日
Doyōbi
Korean | 일요일
日曜日
Iryoil | 월요일
月曜日
Woryoil | 화요일
火曜日
Hwayoil | 수요일
水曜日
Suyoil | 목요일
木曜日
Mogyoil | 금요일
金曜日
Geumyoil | 토요일
土曜日
Toyoil
Mongolian | наран өдөр naraŋ ödör | саран өдөр saraŋ ödör | гал өдөр gal ödör | усан өдөр usaŋ ödör | модон өдөр modoŋ ödör | төмөр өдөр, алтан өдөр tömör ödör, altaŋ ödör | шороон өдөр shorooŋ ödör
Mongolian
(Transliteration from Tibetan)  | ням
nyam | даваа
davaa | мягмар
myagmar | лхагва
lhagva | пүрэв
pürev | баасан
baasan | бямба
byamba
Tibetan | གཟའ་ཉི་མ།
gza' nyi ma
Nyima | གཟའ་ཟླ་བ།
gza' zla wa
Dawa | གཟའ་མིག་དམར།
gza' mig dmar
Mikmar | གཟའ་ལྷག་པ།
gza' lhak pa
Lhakpa | གཟའ་ཕུར་བུ།
gza' phur bu
Purbu | གཟའ་པ་སངས།
gza' pa sangs
Pasang | གཟའ་སྤེན་པ།
gza' spen ba
Penba

## Numbered days of the week

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### Days numbered from Monday

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ISO prescribes Monday as the first day of the week with ISO-8601 for software date formats.

The Slavic, Baltic and Uralic languages (except Finnish and partially Estonian and Võro) adopted numbering but took Monday rather than Sunday as the "first day".[25] This convention is also found in some Austronesian languages whose speakers were converted to Christianity by European missionaries.[26]

In Slavic languages, some of the names correspond to numerals after Sunday: compare Russian vtornik (вторник) "Tuesday" and vtoroj (второй) "the second", chetverg (четверг) "Thursday" and chetvjortyj (четвёртый) "the fourth", pyatnitsa (пятница) "Friday" and pyatyj (пятый) "the fifth"; see also the Notes.

Day
Number From One | Monday
Day One | Tuesday
Day Two | Wednesday
Day Three | Thursday
Day Four | Friday
Day Five | Saturday
Day Six | Sunday
Day Seven

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ISO 8601 #  | 1  | 2  | 3  | 4  | 5  | 6  | 7
Russian | понедельник
ponedel'nik [☽1] | вторник
vtornik [♂5] | среда
sreda [☿1] | четверг
chetverg [♃4] | пятница
pyatnitsa [♀5] | суббота
subbota [♄1] | воскресенье
voskresen'ye [☉3]
Belarusian | панядзелак
panyadzelak [☽1] | аўторак
awtorak [♂5] | серада
serada [☿1] | чацвер
chats'ver [♃4] | пятніца
pyatnitsa [♀5] | субота
subota [♄1] | нядзеля
nyadzelya [☉6]
Ukrainian | понедiлок
ponedilok [☽1] | вiвторок
vivtorok [♂5] | середа
sereda [☿1] | четвер
chetver [♃4] | п'ятниця
p'yatnytsya [♀5] | субота
subota [♄1] | недiля
nedilya [☉6]
Lemko Rusyn | понедільок
ponedilyok | віторок
vitorok [♂5] | середа
sereda | четвер
chetver | пятниця
pyatnîtsya | субота
subota | неділя
nedilya
Prešov Rusyn | понедїлёк
ponedyilyok | вівторок
vivtorok [♂5] | середа
sereda | четверь
chetver' | пятніця
pyatnitsya | субота
subota | недїля
nedyilya
Pannonian Rusyn | пондзелок
pondzelok | вовторок
vovtorok [♂5] | стрeдa
streda | штвaртoк
shtvartok | пияток
piyatok | сoбoтa
sobota | нєдзеля
nyedzelya
Slovak | pondelok [☽1] | utorok [♂5] | streda [☿1] | štvrtok [♃4] | piatok [♀5] | sobota [♄1] | nedeľa [☉6]
Czech | pondělí [☽1] | úterý [♂5] | středa [☿1] | čtvrtek [♃4] | pátek [♀5] | sobota [♄1] | neděle [☉6]
Upper Sorbian | póndźela [☽1] | wutora [♂5] | srjeda [☿1] | štwórtk [♃4] | pjatk [♀5] | sobota [♄1] | njedźela [☉6]
Lower Sorbian | pónjeźela, pónjeźele  | wałtora [♂5] | srjoda  | stwórtk  | pětk  | sobota  | njeźela, njeźelka
Polish | poniedziałek [☽1] | wtorek [♂5] | środa [☿1] | czwartek [♃4] | piątek [♀5] | sobota [♄1] | niedziela [☉6]
Kashubian | pòniedzôłk  | wtórk  | strzoda  | czwiôrtk  | piątk  | sobòta  | niedzela
Slovene | ponedeljek [☽1] | torek [♂5] | sreda [☿1] | četrtek [♃4] | petek [♀5] | sobota [♄1] | nedelja [☉6]
Burgenland Croatian | pandiljak, ponediljak  | utorak [♂5] | srijeda  | četvrtak  | petak  | subota  | nedilja
Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian (Ijekavian/Ekavian)  | ponedjeljak,
понедјељак [☽1] | utorak,
уторак [♂5] | srijeda,
сриједа [☿1] | četvrtak,
четвртак [♃4] | petak,
петак [♀5] | subota,
субота [♄1] | nedjelja,
недјеља [☉6]
понедељак,
ponedeljak [☽1] | среда,
sreda [☿1] | недеља,
nedelja [☉6]
Macedonian | понеделник
ponedelnik [☽1] | вторник
vtornik [♂5] | среда
sreda [☿1] | четврток
chetvrtok [♃4] | петок
petok [♀5] | сабота
sabota [♄1] | недела
nedela [☉6]
Bulgarian | понеделник
ponedelnik [☽1] | вторник
vtornik [♂5] | сряда
sryada [☿1] | четвъртък
chetvărtăk [♃4] | петък
petăk [♀5] | събота
săbota [♄1] | неделя
nedelya [☉6]
Interslavic | ponedělok,
понедєлок [☽1] | vtorok,
второк [♂5] | srěda,
срєда [☿1] | četvrtok,
четврток [♃4] | petok,
петок [♀5] | subota,
субота [♄1] | nedělja,
недєлја [☉6]
Lithuanian | pirmadienis | antradienis | trečiadienis | ketvirtadienis | penktadienis [♀5] | šeštadienis | sekmadienis
Latvian | pirmdiena | otrdiena | trešdiena | ceturtdiena [♃4] | piektdiena [♀5] | sestdiena | svētdiena
Hungarian | hétfő [☽3] | kedd [♂2] | szerda [☿1] Slavic | csütörtök [♃4] Slavic | péntek [♀5] Slavic | szombat [♄1] Hebrew | vasárnap [☉5]
Estonian | esmaspäev [☽6] | teisipäev [♂2] | kolmapäev [☿3] | neljapäev [♃4] | reede [♀6] | laupäev[♄2] | pühapäev[☉2]
Võro | iispäiv [☽6] | tõõsõpäiv [♂2] | kolmapäiv [☿3] | nelläpäiv [♃4] | riidi [♀6] | puuľpäiv[♄8] | pühäpäiv[☉2]
Mongolian
(numerical)  | нэг дэх өдөр
neg dekh ödör | хоёр дахь өдөр
hoyor dahi ödör | гурав дахь өдөр
gurav dahi ödör | дөрөв дэх өдөр
döröv dekh ödör | тав дахь өдөр
tav dahi ödör | хагас сайн өдөр
hagas sayn ödör [♄7] | бүтэн сайн өдөр
büten sayn ödör [☉7]
Luo | Wuok tich  | Tich ariyo  | Tich adek  | Tich ang'uen  | Tich abich  | Chieng' ngeso  | Juma pil
Hawaiian | Pōʻakahi  | Pōʻalua  | Pōʻakolu  | Pōʻahā  | Pōʻalima  | Pōʻaono  | Lāpule [☉10]
Apma (Vanuatu)  | ren bwaleh / mande[27] | ren karu  | ren katsil  | ren kavet  | ren kalim  | lesaare  | sande
Sona (constructed language) | enyodi  | doyodi  | tinyodi  | cayodi  | penyodi  | xiodi  | zunyodi
Yakut | бэнидиэнньик
benidiennyik [☽1] | оптуорунньук
optuorunnyuk [♂5] | сэрэдэ
serede [☿1] | чэппиэр
çeppier [♃4] | бээтинсэ
beetinse [♀5] | субуота
subuota [♄1] | баскыһыанньа
baskıhıannya [☉3]

A number of Bantu languages have days numbered from Monday as an influence from Western missionaries. They brought along with them working days, e.g. in Setswana: Labobedi (the second working day - Tuesday), Laboraro (the third working day), Labone (the fourth working day), Labotlhano (the fifth working day). Sunday became known as the day of going to church when the iron (tshipi) bell rings, thus Latshipi.[28]

In Standard Chinese, the week is referred to as the "Stellar Period" (Chinese: 星期; pinyin: Xīngqī) or "Cycle" (simplified Chinese: 周; traditional Chinese: 週; pinyin: Zhōu).

The modern Chinese names for the days of the week are based on a simple numerical sequence. The word for "week" is followed by a number indicating the day: "Monday" is literally the "Stellar Period One"/"Cycle One", that is, the "First day of the Stellar Period/Cycle", etc. The exception is Sunday, where 日 (rì), "day" or "Sun", is used instead of a number.[29] A slightly informal and colloquial variant to 日 is 天 (tiān) "day", "sky" or "heaven". However, the term 週天 is rarely used compared to 星期天.

Accordingly, the notational abbreviation of the days of the week uses the numbers, for example, 一 for "M" or "Mon(.)", "Monday". The abbreviation of Sunday uses exclusively 日 and not 天. Attempted usage of 天 as such will not be understood.

Colloquially, the week is also known as the "Worship" (simplified Chinese: 礼拜; traditional Chinese: 禮拜; pinyin: Lǐbài), with the names of the days of the week formed accordingly. This is also dominant in certain regional varieties of Chinese.

The following is a table of the Mandarin names of the days of the weeks. Note that standard Taiwan Mandarin pronounces 期 as qí, so 星期 is instead xīngqí. While all varieties of Mandarin may pronounce 星期 as xīngqi and 禮拜/礼拜 as lǐbai, the second syllable with the neutral tone, this is not reflected in the table either for legibility.

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Xīngqīyī | 星期二
Xīngqī'èr | 星期三
Xīngqīsān | 星期四
Xīngqīsì | 星期五
Xīngqīwǔ | 星期六
Xīngqīliù | 星期日/星期天
Xīngqīrì (or Xīngqītiān)

Zhōuyī | 週二
Zhōu'èr | 週三
Zhōusān | 週四
Zhōusì | 週五
Zhōuwǔ | 週六
Zhōuliù | 週日/週天
Zhōurì (or Zhōutiān, rarely used)
Standard Modern Chinese
(regional, informal, colloquial)  | 禮拜一
Lǐbàiyī | 禮拜二
Lǐbài'èr | 禮拜三
Lǐbàisān | 禮拜四
Lǐbàisì | 禮拜五
Lǐbàiwǔ | 禮拜六
Lǐbàiliù | 禮拜天/禮拜日
Lǐbàitiān (or Lǐbàirì)

Several Sinitic languages refer to Saturday as 週末 "end of the week" and Sunday as 禮拜. Examples include Shenyang Mandarin, Hanyuan Sichuanese Mandarin, Taishanese, Yudu Hakka, Teochew, Ningbonese, and Loudi Old Xiang. Some Hakka varieties in Taiwan still use the traditional Luminaries.

### Days numbered from Sunday

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Sunday comes first in order in calendars shown in the table below. In the Abrahamic tradition, the first day of the week is Sunday. Biblical Sabbath (corresponding to Saturday) is when God rested from six-day Creation, making the day following the Sabbath the first day of the week (corresponding to Sunday). Seventh-day Sabbaths were sanctified for celebration and rest. After the week was adopted in early Christianity, 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.

Saint Martin of Dumio (c. 520–580), archbishop of Braga, decided not to call days by pagan gods and to use ecclesiastic terminology to designate them. While the custom of numbering the days of the week was mostly prevalent in the Eastern Church, Portuguese and Mirandese, due to Martin's influence, are the only Romance languages in which the names of the days come from numbers rather than planetary names.

Members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) historically objected to the pagan etymologies of days and months and substituted numbering, beginning with First Day for Sunday.

Icelandic is a special case within the Germanic languages, maintaining only the Sun and Moon (sunnudagur and mánudagur respectively), while dispensing with the names of the explicitly heathen gods in favour 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, but otherwise the names correspond to those of English.

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Hebrew | יום ראשון‎ yom rishon | יום שני‎ yom sheni | יום שלישי‎ yom shlishi | יום רביעי‎ yom revi'i | יום חמישי‎ yom ħamishi | יום שישי‎ yom shishi | שבת‎ Shabbat[♄1]
Ecclesiastical Latin | Dominica [☉1] | feria secunda  | feria tertia  | feria quarta  | feria quinta  | feria sexta  | sabbatum [♄1]
Portuguese | domingo [☉1] | segunda-feira | terça-feira | quarta-feira | quinta-feira | sexta-feira | sábado [♄1]
Galician | domingo [☉1] | segunda feira | terza feira terceira feira | corta feira quarta feira | quinta feira | sexta feira | sábado [♄1]
Mirandese | demingo [☉1] | segunda-feira | terça-feira | quarta-feira | quinta-feira | sesta-feira | sábado [♄1]
Tetum | loron-domingu  | loron-segunda  | loron-tersa  | loron-kuarta  | loron-kinta  | loron-sesta  | loron-sábadu
Greek | Κυριακή Kyriakí [☉1] | Δευτέρα Deftéra | Τρίτη Tríti | Τετάρτη Tetárti | Πέμπτη Pémpti | Παρασκευή Paraskeví [♀2] | Σάββατο Sávato [♄1]
Georgian | კვირა k'vira [☉1] | ორშაბათი oršabati  | სამშაბათი samšabati  | ოთხშაბათი otxšabati  | ხუთშაბათი xutšabati  | პარასკევი p'arask'evi [♀2] | შაბათი šabati [♄1]
Western Armenian | Կիրակի
Giragi [☉1] | Երկուշաբթի
Yergushapti  | Երեքշաբթի
Yerekshapti  | Չորեքշաբթի
Chorekshapti  | Հինգշաբթի
Hinkshapti  | Ուրբաթ
Urpat [♀2] | Շաբաթ
Shapat [♄1]
Eastern Armenian | կիրակի
kiraki [☉1] | երկուշաբթի
yerkushapʰtʰi  | երեքշաբթի
yerekʰshapʰtʰi  | չորեքշաբթի
chʰorekʰshapʰtʰi  | հինգշաբթի
hingshapʰtʰi  | ուրբաթ
urpʰatʰ [♀2] | շաբաթ
shapʰatʰ [♄1]
Vietnamese | chủ nhật/chúa nhật [☉1] | thứ hai | thứ ba | thứ tư | thứ năm | thứ sáu | thứ bảy
Somali | 𐒖𐒄𐒖𐒆 Axad  | 𐒘𐒈𐒒𐒕𐒒 Isniin  | 𐒂𐒖𐒐𐒛𐒆𐒙 Talaado  | 𐒖𐒇𐒁𐒖𐒋𐒙 Arbaco  | 𐒅𐒖𐒑𐒕𐒈 Khamiis  | 𐒃𐒘𐒑𐒋𐒙 Jimco  | 𐒈𐒖𐒁𐒂𐒘 Sabti
Amharic | እሑድ əhud | ሰኞ säñño | ማክሰኞ maksäñño | ረቡዕ räbu, ሮብ rob | ሐሙስ hamus | ዓርብ arb | ቅዳሜ ḳədame
Arabic | الأَحَد al-ʔaḥad  | الإثنين al-iṯnayn | الثُّلَاثاء aṯ-ṯulāṯāʔ | الأَرْبعاء al-ʔarbiʕāʔ  | الخَمِيسُ al-ḵamīs  | الجُمُعَة al-jumuʕah [♀4] (also الجُمْعَة al-jumʕah )  | السَّبْت as-sabt [♄5]
Maltese | il-Ħadd | it-Tnejn | it-Tlieta | l-Erbgħa | il-Ħamis | il-Ġimgħa [♀4] | is-Sibt [♄5]
Malay
(incl. Indonesian and Malaysian)  | Ahad or Minggu[☉1] | Isnin or Senin | Selasa | Rabu | K(h)amis | Juma(a)t [♀4] | Sabtu [♄5]
Javanese | Ngahad, Ngakad, Minggu[☉1] | Senèn | Selasa | Rebo | Kemis | Jemuwah [♀4] | Setu [♄5]
Sundanese | Minggu / Minggon [☉1] | Senén | Salasa | Rebo | Kemis | Jumaah [♀4] | Saptu [♄5]
Persian | یکشنبه yekšanbe | دوشنبه došanbe | سه‌شنبه sešanbe | چهارشنبه čāhāršanbe | پنجشنبه panjšanbe | آدینه or جمعه ādine [♀3] or djom'e [♀4] | شنبه šanbe
Kazakh | Жексенбі Jeksenbı | Дүйсенбі Düisenbı | Сейсенбі Seisenbı | Сәрсенбі Särsenbı | Бейсенбі Beisenbı | Жұма Jūma | Сенбі Senbı
Karakalpak | Ekshembi yekşembı | Dúyshembi düişembı | Siyshembi sişembı | Sárshembi särşembı | Piyshembi pişembı | Jumа jūma | Shembі şembı
Tatar | Якшәмбе yakşämbe | Дүшәмбе düşämbe | Сишәмбе sişämbe | Чәршәмбе çärşämbe | Пәнҗешәмбе pänceşämbe | Җомга comga | Шимбә şimbä
Khowar | یک شمبے yak shambey | دو شمبے[☽4] du shambey | سہ شمبے sey shambey | چار شمبے char shambey | پچھمبے pachhambey | آدینہ[♀3] adina | شمبے
Kurdish | Yekşem | Duşem | Sêşem | Çarşem | Pêncşem | În | Şemî
Uyghur | يەكشەنبە, yekshenbe | دۈشەنبە, düshenbe | سەيشەنبە, seyshenbe | چارشەنبە, charshenbe | پەيشەنبە, peyshenbey | جۈمە, jüme | شەنبە, shenbe
Old Turkic | birinç kün  | ikinç kün  | üçünç kün  | törtinç kün  | beşinç kün  | altınç kün  | yetinç kün
Turkish | Pazar [☉4] | Pazartesi [☽2] | Salı[a] | Çarşamba[b] | Perşembe[c] | Cuma [♀4] | Cumartesi [♄4]
Azerbaijani | Bazar | Bazar ertəsi | Çərşənbə axşamı | Çərşənbə | Cümə axşamı | Cümə | Şənbə
Uzbek | Yakshanba | Dushanba | Seshanba | Chorshanba | Payshanba | Juma | Shanba
Navajo | Damóo/Damíigo [☉1] | Damóo Biiskání | Damóo dóó Naakiską́o | Damóo dóó Tááʼ Yiską́o | Damóo dóó Dį́į́ʼ Yiską́o | Ndaʼiiníísh | Yiską́o Damóo

### Days numbered from Saturday

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In Swahili, the day begins at sunrise, unlike in the Arabic and Hebrew calendars where the day starts at sunset (therefore an offset of twelve hours on average), and unlike in the Western world where the day starts at midnight (therefore an offset of six hours on average). Saturday is therefore the first day of the week, as it is the day that includes the first night of the week in Arabic.

Etymologically speaking, Swahili has two "fifth" days. The words for Saturday through Wednesday contain the Bantu-derived Swahili words for "one" through "five". The word for Thursday, Alhamisi, is of Arabic origin and means "the fifth" (day). The word for Friday, Ijumaa, is also Arabic and means (day of) "gathering" for the Friday noon prayers in Islam.

Day
Number from One | Saturday
Day One | Sunday
Day Two | Monday
Day Three | Tuesday
Day Four | Wednesday
Day Five | Thursday
Day Six | Friday
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## Mixing of numbering and astronomy

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In the Žejane dialect of Istro-Romanian, lur (Monday) and virer (Friday) follow the Latin convention, while utorek (Tuesday), sredu (Wednesday), and četrtok (Thursday) follow the Slavic convention.[31]

Day  | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday

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Istro-Romanian, Žejane dialect  | lur  | utorek  | sredu  | četrtok  | virer  | simbota [♄1] | dumireca [☉1]

There are several systems in the different Basque dialects.[32]

Day  | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday

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Standard Basque, Guipuscoan Basque | astelehena ("week-first")  | asteartea ("week-between")  | asteazkena ("week-last")  | osteguna ("Ortzi/Sky day")  | ostirala (see Ortzi)  | larunbata ("fourth", "meeting of friends"), neskenegun ("girls' day")  | igandea
Biscayne Basque | astelena ("week-first"), ilen ("Moon day")  | martitzena ("Mars day")  | eguaztena ("day last")  | eguena ("day of days", "day of light")  | barikua ("day without supper"), egubakotx  | zapatua (compare with Spanish sábado from Sabbath)  | domeka (from Latin Dominica [dies])

In Judaeo-Spanish (Ladino), which is mainly based on a medieval version of Spanish, the five days of Monday–Friday closely follow the Spanish names. For Sunday is used the Arabic name, which is based on numbering (meaning "Day one" or "First day"), because a Jewish language was not likely to adapt a name based on "Lord's Day" for Sunday. As in Spanish, the Ladino name for Saturday is based on Sabbath. However, as a Jewish language—and with Saturday being the actual day of rest in the Jewish community—Ladino directly adapted the Hebrew name, Shabbat.[33]

Day  | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday

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Judaeo-Spanish (Ladino) | aljhad or alhadh | lunes | martes | miércoles or mierkoles | juğeves or djueves | viernes | shabat[♄1]

## Other naming systems

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The days of the week in Meitei (officially known as Manipuri) originated from the Sanamahi creation myth of Meitei mythology.[34] [35] [36] [37] The Udmurt days of the week derive from their connection to traditional calendar rites.[38] The days of the week in Yoruba derive from Yoruba religion and superstitions.[39]

Day  | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday

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Meitei (Manipuri)  | ꯅꯣꯡꯃꯥꯏꯖꯤꯡ
Nongmāijing
("the hill")  | ꯅꯤꯡꯊꯧꯀꯥꯕ
Ningthoukāba
("king's climb")  | ꯂꯩꯄꯥꯛꯄꯣꯛꯄ
Leipākpokpa
("earth's birth")  | ꯌꯨꯝꯁꯀꯩꯁ
Yumsakeisa
("houses built")  | ꯁꯒꯣꯜꯁꯦꯟ
Sagolsen
("horses rode")  | ꯏꯔꯥꯢ
Irāi
("blood flood")  | ꯊꯥꯡꯖ
Thāngja
("swords washed")
Udmurt | арнянунал
arńanunal
("week day")  | вордӥськон
vordiśkon
("birth")  | пуксён
pukśon
("sitting")  | вирнунал
virnunal
("bloody day")  | покчиарня
pokćiarńa
("little Sunday")  | удмуртарня
udmurtarńa
("Udmurt Sunday")  | кӧснунал
kösnunal
("dry day")
Yoruba | Ọjọ-Aiku
("day of immortality")  | Ọjọ-Aje
("day of trade")  | Ọjọ-Iṣẹgun
("day of victory")  | Ọjọru
("day of confusion")  | Ọjọbọ
("day of arrival")  | Ọjọ-Ẹti
("day of delay")  | Ọjọ-Abamẹta
("day of three suggestions")

## See also

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* Akan names of the seven-day week, known as Nnawɔtwe
* Bahá'í calendar (section Weekdays)
* Calculating the day of the week
* Week
* Work Week
* Feria
* Vāra (astronomy)

## Notes

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### Sunday

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☉1 Lord's Day – From Latin Dominicus (Dominica) or Greek Κυριακή (Kyriakí)

☉2 Holy Day and First-Day of the Week (Day of the Sun -> Light -> Resurrection -> Born again) (Christianity)

☉3 Resurrection (Christianity)

☉4 Bazaar Day

☉5 Market Day

☉6 No Work

☉7 Full good day

☉8 Borrowed from English week

☉9 From an Old Burmese word, not of Indic origin.

☉10 Prayer day

### Monday

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☽1 After No Work

☽2 After Bazaar

☽3 Head of Week

☽4 Master (as in Pir, because Muhammad was born on a Monday)

☽5 From an Old Burmese word, not of Indic origin.

☽6 First day of the week

### Tuesday

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♂1 Thing (Assembly), of which god Tyr/Ziu was the patron.

♂2 Second day of the week (cf. Hungarian kettő 'two')

♂3 Third day of the week.

♂4 From Arabic ath-Thalaathaaʼ 'third day'

♂5 From Proto-Slavic vъtorъ 'second'

### Wednesday

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☿1 Mid-week or Middle

☿2 The First Fast (Christianity)

☿3 Third day of the week

### Thursday

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♃1 The day between two fasts (An Dé idir dhá aoin, contracted to An Déardaoin) (Christianity)

♃2 Five (Arabic)

♃3 Fifth day of the week.

♃4 Fourth day of the week.

### Friday

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♀1 The Fast (Celtic) or Fasting Day (Icelandic) (Christianity)

♀2 Good Friday or Preparation (Christianity)

♀3 Jumu'ah (Friday Prayer)

♀4 Gathering/Assembly/Meeting (Islam) – in Malta with no Islamic connotations

♀5 Fifth day of the week

♀6 Borrowed from Germanic languages

Or canàbara, cenàbara, cenàbera, cenàbura, cenarba, chenàbara, chenabra, chenapra, chenàpura, chenarpa, chenàura, cianàbara, chenabura; meaning holy supper as preparation to the sabbathday(Saturday)

### Saturday

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♄1 Shabbat (Jewish and Christian Sabbath)

♄2 Wash or Bath day

♄3 Sun-eve (Eve of Sunday)

♄4 After the Gathering (Islam)

♄5 End of the Week (Arabic Sabt 'rest')

♄6 Week

♄7 Half good day

♄8 Half day

## Notes

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1. ^ Or domigu, domingu, domínica, dominica, domínigu, dumínica, dumíniga.
2. ^ Or mércuis, mérculis, mércuris.
3. ^ Or gióvia, zóbia, giògia, zògia.
4. ^ Or canàbara, cenàbara, cenàbera, cenàbura, cenarba, chenàbara, chenabra, chenapra, chenàpura, chenarpa, chenàura, cianàbara.
5. ^ Or sàbadu, sàbudu, sàburu, sàpatu.

## References

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1. ^ derived from Arabic: ثالث, romanized: ṯāliṯ, lit. 'third'
2. ^ çehar-şenbe (derived from Persian)
3. ^ penc-şenbih (derived from Persian)

1. ^ "What is the First Day of the Week?".
2. ^ Schaff, Philip (1884). History of the Christian Church Vol. III. Edinburgh: T&T Clark. p. 380. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
3. ^ Nerone Caesare Augusto Cosso Lentuol Cossil fil. Cos. VIII idus Febr(u)arius dies solis, luna XIIIIX nun(dinae) Cumis, V (idus Februarias) nun(dinae) Pompeis. Robert Hannah, "Time in Written Spaces", in: Peter Keegan, Gareth Sears, Ray Laurence (eds.), Written Space in the Latin West, 200 BC to 300 AD, A&C Black, 2013, p. 89.
4. ^ E. G. Richards, Mapping Time, the Calendar and History, Oxford 1999. p. 269
5. ^ Falk, Michael (19 March 1999). "Astronomical names for the days of the week". Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. 93 (1999–06): 122–133\. Bibcode:1999JRASC..93..122F.1999–06&rft.pages=122-133&rft.date=1999-03-19&rft_id=info:bibcode/1999JRASC..93..122F&rft.aulast=Falk&rft.aufirst=Michael&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Names+of+the+days+of+the+week" class="Z3988">
6. ^ "Days of the Week Meaning and Origin". Astrologyclub.org. 28 May 2016. Retrieved 25 December 2016.
7. ^ Dio Cassius. Ῥωμαϊκὴ Ἱστορία. Book 37, Sections 16-19. English translation.
8. ^ "Days of the week in Portuguese".
9. ^ replacing a system of n "one-, three-, five-, ten-, or fifteen-day periods" (>Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, 2003, p. 7). MS. 17 (now held at St. John's College, Oxford), dating at least from 1043, records five-week-day lists, which it names as follows: secundum Hebreos (according to the Hebrews); secundum antiquos gentiles (according to the ancient gentiles, i.e., Romans); secundum Siluestrum papam (according to Pope Sylvester I, i.e., a list derived from the apocryphal Acta Syluestri); secundum Anglos (according to the English); secundum Scottos (according to the Irish).
10. ^ "we have a clear reflex of the Indo-European nominative singular, with a lengthened grade, giving archaic Old Irish diu; it is suggested that what we have in the Oxford list and in Cormac's Glossary is the oldest form of Old Irish dia, representing the old nominative case of the noun in adverbial usage." Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, 2003, p. 12
11. ^ The word scrol is glossed in Sanas Cormaic as Scroll .i. soillsi, unde est aput Scottos diu srol.i. dies solis "Srcoll, that is brightness, whence 'diu srol' among the Irish, that is Sunday".
12. ^ Ó Cróinín has Diu luna as "represent[ing] the transitional form between Latin dies lunae and the later, Classical Old Irish dia luain ... a translation of, not a calque on, the Latin ... [It] would seem to reflect a pre-assimilation state in respect of both words," Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, 2003, p. 13
13. ^ "The Irish word perhaps derives from Latin forms where cases other than the genitive were used, e.g., Marte."Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, 2003, p. 15
14. ^ A form unique to Irish, meaning uncertain. In Old Irish, íath can mean "land." A "very old" word for Wednesday, Mercúir (borrowed from the Latin (dies) Mercurii), does occur in early Leinster poems but Ó Cróinín is of the belief that Diu eathamon "reflects a still older Irish word for 'Wednesday.'"
15. ^ A form unique to Irish. Ó Cróinín writes, "I suggest that it means simply 'on Thursday' ... it is temporal dat. of an n-stem (nom. sg. etham, gen. sg. ethamon – as in our Oxford list – and acc./dat. sg. ethamain)." (2003, p. 17) He furthermore suggests that etham ('arable land') "may be a noun of agency from ith (gen. sg. etho), with a meaning like corn-maker or some such thing; Diu eathamon might then be a day for sowing seed in a weekly regimen of activities such as we find in Críth Gablach." Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, 2003, p. 17\. The form Ethomuin is found in Rawlinson B 502.
16. ^ A form unique to Irish, its meaning unclear.
17. ^ https://www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/files_ccc/SQA-Gaelic_Orthographic_Conventions-En-e.pdf, p. 17.
18. ^ Koch, Harold (2015). "Patterns in the diffusion of nomenclature systems: Australian subsections in comparison to European days of the week". In Dag T.T. Haug (ed.). Historical Linguistics 2013: Selected papers from the 21st International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oslo, 5-9 August 2013. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory. Vol. 334\. With the assistance of: Eiríkur Kristjánsson. John Benjamins Publishing Company. pp. 113–114\. ISBN 978-90-272-6818-1.
19. ^ Boyce, Mary (July 1995). "Languages in contact I: Creating new words for Maori". New Zealand Studies. 5 (2). doi:10.26686/jnzs.v5i2.473.
20. ^ Grimm, Jacob (2004). Teutonic Mythology. Courier Corporation. pp. 122–123\. ISBN 978-0-486-43546-6.
21. ^ "friggjarstjarna". Dictionary of Old Norse Prose. University of Copenhagen. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
22. ^ Monier-Williams, Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), s.v. vāsara.
23. ^ Monier-Williams, Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), s.v. vāra.
24. ^ The Chinese encyclopaedia Cihai (辭海) under the entry for "seven luminaries calendar" (七曜曆, qī yào lì) has: "method of recording days according to the seven luminaries [七曜 qī yào]. China normally observes the following order: Sun, Mon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn. Seven days make one week, which is repeated in a cycle. Originated in ancient Babylon (or ancient Egypt according to one theory). Used by the Romans at the time of the 1st century AD, later transmitted to other countries. This method existed in China in the 4th century AD. It was also transmitted to China by Manichaeans in the 8th century AD from the country of Kang (康) in Central Asia" (translation after Bathrobe's Days of the Week in Chinese, Japanese & Vietnamese, plus Mongolian and Buryat (cjvlang.com)
25. ^ Falk, Michael (2004). "Astronomical names for the days of the week". Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. 93 (1999–06): 122–133\. arXiv:astro-ph/0307398. Bibcode:1999JRASC..93..122F. doi:10.1016/j.newast.2003.07.002. S2CID 118954190.1999–06&rft.pages=122-133&rft.date=2004&rft_id=info:arxiv/astro-ph/0307398&rft_id=https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:118954190#id-name=S2CID&rft_id=info:doi/10.1016/j.newast.2003.07.002&rft_id=info:bibcode/1999JRASC..93..122F&rft.aulast=Falk&rft.aufirst=Michael&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Names+of+the+days+of+the+week" class="Z3988">
26. ^ Gray, 2012. The Languages of Pentecost Island.
27. ^ Ren is "day". Numbered weekdays are used for Tuesday-Friday and sometimes Monday; the names for Saturday and Sunday come from English.
28. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 August 2020.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
29. ^ "Days of the Week in Chinese: Three Different Words for 'Week'". Cjvlang. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
30. ^ "Swahili days, months, dates". online.fr. Archived from the original on 9 August 2007.
31. ^ [1] Archived 20 November 2008 at the Wayback Machine
32. ^ Astronomy and Basque Language, Henrike Knörr, Oxford VI and SEAC 99 "Astronomy and Cultural Diversity", La Laguna, June 1999. It references Alessandro Bausani, 1982, The prehistoric Basque week of three days: archaeoastronomical notes, The Bulletin of the Center for Archaeoastronomy (Maryland), v. 2, 16–22.
33. ^ See the image in Anthony, Charlotte (22 July 2012). "Rushing to preserve Ladino legacies". Crescent City Jewish News. Retrieved 31 May 2016. The Ladino names are in the right-hand column, written in Hebrew characters.
34. ^ Wakoklon Heelel Thilel Salai Amai Eelon Pukok PuYa
35. ^ Wachetlon Pathup PuYa
36. ^ Kham Oi Yang Oi Sekning PuYa
37. ^ Nunglekpam, Premi Devi (25 May 2018). Short Essays on Women and Society: Manipuri Women through the Century. FSP Media Publications.
38. ^ Vladykina, Glukhova, Tatyana Grigorievna, Galina Anatolyevna (2011). "Дни недели в системе представ лений удмуртов о времени". Фольклористика: 17 – via CyberLeninka.`{{cite journal}}`: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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## Further reading

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* Brown, Cecil H. (1989). "Naming the days of the week: A cross-language study of lexical acculturation". Current Anthropology. 30 (4): 536–550\. doi:10.1086/203782. JSTOR 2743391. S2CID 144153973.
* Falk, Michael (2004). "Astronomical Names for the Days of the Week". Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. 93: 122–133\. Bibcode:1999JRASC..93..122F.
* Neugebauer, Otto (1979). Ethiopic astronomy and computus, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, philosophisch-historische klasse, sitzungsberichte, 347 (Vienna)

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