Names of the days of the week

File:Italian - Bracelet - Walters 41269.jpg

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

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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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.Template: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 actualTemplate:Clarify seven-day week in 600 BCE, with Emperor Constantine making the Day of the Sun ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, "Sunday") a legal holiday centuries later.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

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

Greco-Roman tradition

Template:Further 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").<ref>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.</ref> 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?"<ref>E. G. Richards, Mapping Time, the Calendar and History, Oxford 1999. p. 269</ref> The treatise is lost, but the answer to the question is known; see planetary hours.Template: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.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

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).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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. Template: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)
Greek<ref name=Dio>Template:Cite book Book 37, Sections 16-19. English translation.</ref>	lang}} Template:Grc-transl	lang}} Template:Grc-transl	lang}} Template:Grc-transl	lang}} Template:Grc-transl	lang}} Template:Grc-transl	lang}} Template:Grc-transl	lang}} Template:Grc-transl
	lit. "day of Sun"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Ares"	lit. "day of Hermes"	lit. "day of Zeus"	lit. "day of Aphrodite"	lit. "day of Cronus"
Latin	diēs Sōlis	diēs Lūnae	diēs Mārtis	diēs Mercuriī	diēs Iovis	diēs Veneris	diēs Sāturnī
	lit. "day of Sun"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Saturn"

Romance languages

Except for 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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)
Portuguese	lang}} Template:Ref label	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}} Template:Ref label
	lit. "day of Lord"	lit. "second day"	lit. "third day"	lit. "fourth day"	lit. "fifth day"	lit. "sixth day"	lit. "day of Sabbath"
Galician	lang}} Template:Ref label	lang}} / segunda feira	lang}} / terza feira / terceira feira	lang}} / corta feira / cuarta feira	lang}} / quinta feira	lang}} / sexta feira	lang}} Template:Ref label
	lit. "day of Lord"	lit. "day of Moon" / "second day"	lit. "day of Mars" / "third day"	lit. "day of Mercury" / "fourth day"	lit. "day of Jupiter" / "fifth day"	lit. "day of Venus" / "sixth day"	lit. "day of Sabbath"
Asturian	lang}} Template:Ref label	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}} Template:Ref label
	lit. "day of Lord"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Sabbath"
Spanish	lang}} Template:Ref label	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}} Template:Ref label
	lit. "day of Lord"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Sabbath"
Aragonese	lang}} Template:Ref label	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}} Template:Ref label
	lit. "day of Lord"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Sabbath"
Occitan	lang}} Template:Ref label	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}} Template:Ref label
	lit. "day of Lord"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Sabbath"
Aranese Occitan	dimenge Template:Ref label	deluns	dimars	dimèrcles	dijaus	diuendres	dissabte Template:Ref label
	lit. "day of Lord"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Sabbath"
Catalan	diumenge Template:Ref label	dilluns	dimarts	dimecres	dijous	divendres	dissabte Template:Ref label
	lit. "day of Lord"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Sabbath"
French	dimanche Template:Ref label	lundi	mardi	mercredi	jeudi	vendredi	samedi Template:Ref label
	lit. "day of Lord"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Sabbath"
Italian	domenica Template:Ref label	lunedì	martedì	mercoledì	giovedì	venerdì	sabato Template:Ref label
	lit. "day of Lord"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Sabbath"
Lombard (Milanese)	domenega Template:Ref label	lunedì	martedì	mercoldì	giovedì	venerdì	sabet Template:Ref label
	lit. "day of Lord"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Sabbath"
Lombard (Bresciano)	duminica Template:Ref label	lunedé	martedé	mercoldé	gioedé	venerdé	sabot Template:Ref label
	lit. "day of Lord"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Sabbath"
Ligurian	doménga Template:Ref label	lunedì	mâtesdì	mâcordì	zéuggia	venardì	sàbbo Template:Ref label
	lit. "day of Lord"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Sabbath"
Neapolitan	dummeneca Template:Ref label	lunnerì	marterì	miercurì	gioverì	viernarì	sàbbatu Template:Ref label
	lit. "day of Lord"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Sabbath"
Sicilian	dumìnica Template:Ref label	luni	marti	mèrcuri	jovi	vènniri	sàbbatu Template:Ref label
	lit. "day of Lord"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Sabbath"
Corsican	dumenica Template:Ref label	luni	marti	màrcuri	ghjovi	vènnari	sàbatu Template:Ref label
	lit. "day of Lord"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Sabbath"
Romanian	duminică Template:Ref label	luni	marți	miercuri	joi	vineri	sâmbătă Template:Ref label
	lit. "day of Lord"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Sabbath"
Venetian	domenega Template:Ref label	luni	marti	mèrcore	zobia	vénare	sabo Template:Ref label
	lit. "day of Lord"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Sabbath"
Sardinian	domíniga, domiga, etc.<ref group="note">Or domigu, domingu, domínica, dominica, domínigu, dumínica, dumíniga.</ref>	lunis	martis, maltis	mélcuris, mércunis, etc.<ref group="note">Or mércuis, mérculis, mércuris.</ref>	gióbia, gioja, etc.<ref group="note">Or gióvia, zóbia, giògia, zògia.</ref>	chenàbura, cenarva, etc.<ref group="note">Or canàbara, cenàbara, cenàbera, cenàbura, cenarba, chenàbara, chenabra, chenapra, chenàpura, chenarpa, chenàura, cianàbara.</ref>	sàpadu, sàuru, etc.<ref group="note">Or sàbadu, sàbudu, sàburu, sàpatu.</ref>
	lit. "day of Lord"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Jupiter"		lit. "day of Sabbath"
Friulian	domenie Template:Ref label	lunis	martars	miercus	joibe	vinars	sabide Template:Ref label
	lit. "day of Lord"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Sabbath"
Val Badia Ladin	domënia	lönesc	mertesc, dedolönesc	mercui, dedemesaledema	jöbia	vëndres	sabeda
	lit. "day of Lord"	lit. "day of Moon"			lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Sabbath"
Gherdëina Ladin	dumënia	lunesc	merdi	mierculdi	juebia	vënderdi	sada
	lit. "day of Lord"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Sabbath"
Puter Romansh	dumengia	lündeschdi	mardi	marculdi	gövgia	venderdi	sanda
	lit. "day of Lord"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Sabbath"
Vallader Romansh	dumengia	lündeschdi	mardi	marcurdi	gövgia	venderdi	sonda
	lit. "day of Lord"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Sabbath"
Surmiran Romansh	dumengia	glindesde	marde	mesemda	gievgia	venderde	sonda
	lit. "day of Lord"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"		lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Sabbath"
Rumantsch Grischun	dumengia	glindesdi	mardi	mesemna	gievgia	venderdi	sonda
	lit. "day of Lord"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"		lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Sabbath"
Sursilvan Romansh	dumengia	gliendisdis	mardis	mesjamna	gievgia	venderdis	sonda
	lit. "day of Lord"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"		lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Sabbath"
Sutsilvan Romansh	dumeingia	gliendasgis	margis	measeanda	gievgia	vendargis	sonda
	lit. "day of Lord"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"		lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Sabbath"

Celtic languages

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)
Old Irish<ref>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).</ref>	Diu<ref>"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</ref> srol Dies scrol<ref>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".</ref>	Diu luna<ref>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</ref>	Diu mart<ref>"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</ref>	Diu iath<ref>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.'"</ref>	Diu eathamon<ref>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.</ref>	Diu triach<ref>A form unique to Irish, its meaning unclear.</ref>	Diu saturn
		lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"				lit. "day of Saturn"
Old Irish (later)	Diu domnica	Diu luna	Diu mart	Diu cétaín Template:Ref label	Diu eter dib aínib Template:Ref label	Diu aíne Template:Ref label	Diu saturn
	lit. "day of Lord"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of the first fast"	lit. "day between two fasts"	lit. "day of the fast"	lit. "day of Saturn"
Irish	An Domhnach Template:Ref label Dé Domhnaigh	An Luan Dé Luain	An Mháirt Dé Máirt	An Chéadaoin Template:Ref label Dé Céadaoin	An Déardaoin Template:Ref label Déardaoin	An Aoine Template:Ref label Dé hAoine	An Satharn Dé Sathairn
	lit. "day of Lord"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of the first fast"	lit. "day between two fasts"	lit. "day of the fast"	lit. "day of Saturn"
Scottish Gaelic<ref>https://www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/files_ccc/SQA-Gaelic_Orthographic_Conventions-En-e.pdf, p. 17.</ref>	Didòmhnaich Template:Ref label or Latha/Là na Sàbaid	Diluain	Dimàirt	Diciadain Template:Ref label	Diardaoin Template:Ref label	Dihaoine Template:Ref label	Disathairne
	lit. "day of Lord"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of the first fast"	lit. "day between two fasts"	lit. "day of the fast"	lit. "day of Saturn"
Manx	Jedoonee Template:Ref label	Jelune	Jemayrt	Jecrean Template:Ref label	Jerdein Template:Ref label	Jeheiney Template:Ref label	Jesarn
	lit. "day of Lord"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of the first fast"	lit. "day between two fasts"	lit. "day of the fast"	lit. "day of Saturn"
Welsh	dydd Sul	dydd Llun	dydd Mawrth	dydd Mercher	dydd Iau	dydd Gwener	dydd Sadwrn
	lit. "day of Sun"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Saturn"
Cornish	Dy' Sul	Dy' Lun	Dy' Meurth	Dy' Mergher	Dy' Yow	Dy' Gwener	Dy' Sadorn
	lit. "day of Sun"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Saturn"
Breton	Disul	Dilun	Dimeurzh	Dimerc'her	Diriaou	Digwener	Disadorn
	lit. "day of Sun"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Saturn"

Albanian language

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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Day	Sunday Sōl (Sun)	Monday Luna (Moon)	Tuesday Mars (Mars)	Wednesday Mercurius (Mercury)	Thursday Iuppiter (Jupiter)	Friday Venus (Venus)	Saturday Saturnus (Saturn)
Albanian	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}
	lit. "day of Sun"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Enji"	lit. "day of Prende"	lit. "day of Saturn"

Adoptions from Romance

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)
Filipino	lang}} Template:Ref label	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}} or colloquially {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	lang}}	lang}} Template:Ref label
	lit. "day of Lord"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Sabbath"
Chamorro	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}
	lit. "day of Lord"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Sabbath"
Māori<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}
	lit. "holy day"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "washing day"
Uropi	Soldia	Lundia	Mardia	Mididia	Zusdia	Wendia	Sabadia
	lit. "day of Sun"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"			lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Sabbath"
Universalglot	diodai	lundai	mardai	erdai	jovdai	vendai	samdai
		lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"		lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Sabbath"
Neo	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}
	lit. "day of Lord"	lit. "day of Moon"		lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Sabbath"
Idiom Neutral	soldi	lundi	marsdi	merkurdi	yovdi	vendrdi	saturndi
	lit. "day of Sun"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Saturn"
Reform-Neutral	soldí	lundí	marsdí	mercurdí	jovdí	vendredí	saturndí
	lit. "day of Sun"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Saturn"
ApI Interlingua	sol-die	luna-die	marte-die	mercurio-die	jove-die	venere-die	sabbato, saturno-die
	lit. "day of Sun"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Sabbath", "day of Saturn"
Interlingua	lang}} Template:Ref label	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}} Template:Ref label
	lit. "day of Lord"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Sabbath"
Interlingue	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}
	lit. "day of Sun"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Saturn"
Lingua Franca Nova	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}
	lit. "day of Sun"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Saturn"
Mondial	soldi	lundi	mardi	mierdi	jodi	vendi	samdi
	lit. "day of Sun"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Sabbath"
INTAL	sundi	lundi	mardi	merkurdi	jodi	venerdi	saturdi
	lit. "day of Sun"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Saturn"
Novial	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}, {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} Template:Small	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}
	lit. "day of Sun"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Saturn"
Romániço	Domínico	Lun-dio	Marti-dio	Mercurii-dio	Jov-dio	Véner-dio	Sábato
	lit. "day of Lord"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Sabbath"
Ido	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}
	lit. "day of Sun"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Saturn"
Esperanto	lang}} Template:Ref label	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}} Template:Ref label
	lit. "day of Lord"	lit. "day of Moon"	lit. "day of Mars"	lit. "day of Mercury"	lit. "day of Jupiter"	lit. "day of Venus"	lit. "day of Sabbath"

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

Germanic tradition

Template:Further 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 {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}. 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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> 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 {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}), meaning "sun's day". This is a translation of the Latin phrase {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}. 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 {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}). In both West Germanic and North Germanic mythology, the Sun is personified as Sunna/Sól.
• Monday: Old English {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}), meaning "Moon's day". This is equivalent to the Latin name {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}. In North Germanic mythology, the Moon is personified as Máni.
• Tuesday: Old English {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}), meaning "Tiw's day". Tiw (Norse {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) 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 {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, "Day of Mars" (the Roman god of war).
• Wednesday: Old English {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}) 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 {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, "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 {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, the miðviku- in Icelandic {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} and the Finnish {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} all mean "mid-week".
• Thursday: Old English {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}), meaning '{{#invoke:Lang|lang}}'s day'. {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} means thunder or its personification, the Norse god known in Modern English as Thor. Similarly Dutch {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, German {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} ('thunder's day'), Finnish {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, and Scandinavian {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} ('Thor's day'). "Thor's day" corresponds to Latin {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, "day of Jupiter" (the Roman god of thunder).
• Friday: Old English {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}), meaning the day of the Anglo-Saxon goddess {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}. The Norse name for the planet Venus was {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, 'Frigg's star'.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

|CitationClass=web }}</ref> It is based on the Latin {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, "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 {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}). In Latin, it was {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, "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 {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, literally "washing-day". The German {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (mainly used in northern and eastern Germany) and the Low German {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} mean "Sunday Eve"; the German word {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} 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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Low German	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}Template:Ref label	lang}},Template:Ref label {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (rarely {{#invoke:Lang|lang}})	lang}}	lang}}	lang}},Template:Ref label {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}
West Frisian	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}},Template:Ref label {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}
Saterland Frisian	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}	lang}}
Heligoland North Frisian	Sendai	Mundai	Taisdai	Meddeweeken	Tünnersdai	Fraidai	Senin
Amrum/Föhr North Frisian	söndai	mundai	teisdai	wäärnsdei Template:Small, weedensdai Template:Small	süürsdai Template:Small, tüürsdai Template:Small	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 Template:Small, sandi Template:Small	moondi Template:Small, moundi Template:Small	teesdi Template:Small, täisdi Template:Small	weensdi Template:Small, winsdi Template:Small	tünersdi	fraidi	saneene
Halligen North Frisian	sondii	mööndii	taisdii	maaderwich	tonersdii	fraidii	soneene
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Adoptions from Germanic

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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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)	lang}};Template:Ref label {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	lang}}; {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	lang}}; {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	lang}}; {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	lang}}; {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	lang}}; {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	lang}}; {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}
Volapük	sudel	mudel	tudel	vedel	dödel	fridel	zädel

Hindu tradition

Template:Further Hindu astrology uses the concept of days under the regency of a planetTemplate:Clarify 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.<ref>Monier-Williams, Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), s.v. vāsara.</ref> Knowledge of Greek astrology existed since about the 2nd century BCTemplate: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.Template:Citation needed

In languages of the Indian subcontinent

	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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Burushaski	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}
Chitrali (Khowar)	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}Template:Ref label	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}Template:Ref label	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}
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Hindko	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}
Hmar	Pathienni	Thawṭanni	Thawleni	Nilaini	Ningani	Zirtawpni	Inrinni
Kannada	lang}} Template:Transliteration	lang}} Template:Transliteration	lang}} Template:Transliteration	lang}} Template:Transliteration	lang}} Template:Transliteration	lang}} Template:Transliteration	lang}} Template:Transliteration
Kashmiri	lang}} {{#invoke:IPA|main}}	lang}} {{#invoke:IPA|main}}	lang}} {{#invoke:IPA|main}} or {{#invoke:IPA|main}}	lang}} {{#invoke:IPA|main}}	lang}} {{#invoke:IPA|main}} or {{#invoke:IPA|main}}	lang}} {{#invoke:IPA|main}} or {{#invoke:IPA|main}}	lang}} {{#invoke:IPA|main}}
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Maithili	lang}} Template:Transliteration	lang}} Template:Transliteration	lang}} Template:Transliteration	lang}} Template:Transliteration	lang}} Template:Transliteration	lang}} Template:Transliteration	lang}} Template:Transliteration
Malayalam	lang}} Template:Transliteration	lang}} Template:Transliteration	lang}} Template:Transliteration	lang}} Template:Transliteration	lang}} Template:Transliteration	lang}} Template:Transliteration	lang}} Template:Transliteration
Maldivian	lang}} Template:Transliteration	lang}} Template:Transliteration	lang}} Template:Transliteration	lang}} Template:Transliteration	lang}} Template:Transliteration	lang}} Template:Transliteration	lang}} Template:Transliteration
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Odia	lang}} Template:Transliteration	lang}} Template:Transliteration	lang}} Template:Transliteration	lang}} Template:Transliteration	lang}} Template:Transliteration	lang}} Template:Transliteration	lang}} Template:Transliteration
Pashto	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}
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Punjabi (Shahmukhi)	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} or Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} or Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} or Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}
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Saurashtra	Aitār	Somār	Monglār	Budhār	Bestār	Sukrār	Senmār
Shina	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}
Sindhi	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} or Ārtvāru {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} or Mangalu {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} or Budharu {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} or Vispati {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} or Shukru {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}	Template:Transliteration {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} or Śanscharu {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}
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Southeast Asian languages

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.<ref>Monier-Williams, Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), s.v. vāra.</ref>

	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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Mon	lang}} {{#invoke:IPA|main}} from Sans. āditya	lang}} {{#invoke:IPA|main}} from Sans. candra	lang}} {{#invoke:IPA|main}} from Sans. aṅgāra	lang}} {{#invoke:IPA|main}} from Sans. budhavāra	lang}} {{#invoke:IPA|main}} from Sans. bṛhaspati	lang}} {{#invoke:IPA|main}} from Sans. śukra	lang}} {{#invoke:IPA|main}} from Sans. śani
Khmer	main}}	main}}	main}}	main}}	main}}	main}}	main}}
Lao	main}}	main}}	main}}	main}}	main}}	main}}	main}}
Cham	Adit	Thôm	Angar	But	jip	Suk	Thanưchăn
Shan	lang}} {{#invoke:IPA|main}}	lang}} {{#invoke:IPA|main}}	lang}} {{#invoke:IPA|main}}	lang}} {{#invoke:IPA|main}}	lang}} {{#invoke:IPA|main}}	lang}} {{#invoke:IPA|main}}	lang}} {{#invoke:IPA|main}}
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	ᬯ᭄ᬭᭂᬲ᭄ᬧᬢᬶ 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

	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)
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

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).<ref>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)</ref> The 4th-century AD date, according to the Cihai encyclopedia,Template: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.

Pronunciations for Classical Chinese names are given in Standard Chinese.

	Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
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 {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} Iryoil	월요일 {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} Woryoil	화요일 {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} Hwayoil	수요일 {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} Suyoil	목요일 {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} Mogyoil	금요일 {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} Geumyoil	토요일 {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} 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

Days numbered from Monday

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".<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> This convention is also found in some Austronesian languages whose speakers were converted to Christianity by European missionaries.<ref>Gray, 2012. The Languages of Pentecost Island.</ref>

In Slavic languages, some of the names correspond to numerals after Sunday: compare Russian vtornik ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) "Tuesday" and vtoroj ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) "the second", chetverg ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) "Thursday" and chetvjortyj ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) "the fourth", pyatnitsa ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) "Friday" and pyatyj ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) "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
ISO 8601 #	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Russian	понедельник ponedel'nik Template:Ref label	вторник vtornik Template:Ref label	среда sreda Template:Ref label	четверг chetverg Template:Ref label	пятница pyatnitsa Template:Ref label	суббота subbota Template:Ref label	воскресенье voskresen'ye Template:Ref label
Belarusian	панядзелак panyadzelak Template:Ref label	аўторак awtorak Template:Ref label	серада serada Template:Ref label	чацвер chats'ver Template:Ref label	пятніца pyatnitsa Template:Ref label	субота subota Template:Ref label	нядзеля nyadzelya Template:Ref label
Ukrainian	понедiлок ponedilok Template:Ref label	вiвторок vivtorok Template:Ref label	середа sereda Template:Ref label	четвер chetver Template:Ref label	п'ятниця p'yatnytsya Template:Ref label	субота subota Template:Ref label	недiля nedilya Template:Ref label
Lemko Rusyn	понедільок ponedilyok	віторок vitorok Template:Ref label	середа sereda	четвер chetver	пятниця pyatnîtsya	субота subota	неділя nedilya
Prešov Rusyn	понедїлёк ponedyilyok	вівторок vivtorok Template:Ref label	середа sereda	четверь chetver'	пятніця pyatnitsya	субота subota	недїля nedyilya
Pannonian Rusyn	пондзелок pondzelok	вовторок vovtorok Template:Ref label	стрeдa streda	штвaртoк shtvartok	пияток piyatok	сoбoтa sobota	нєдзеля nyedzelya
Slovak	pondelok Template:Ref label	utorok Template:Ref label	streda Template:Ref label	štvrtok Template:Ref label	piatok Template:Ref label	sobota Template:Ref label	nedeľa Template:Ref label
Czech	pondělí Template:Ref label	úterý Template:Ref label	středa Template:Ref label	čtvrtek Template:Ref label	pátek Template:Ref label	sobota Template:Ref label	neděle Template:Ref label
Upper Sorbian	póndźela Template:Ref label	wutora Template:Ref label	srjeda Template:Ref label	štwórtk Template:Ref label	pjatk Template:Ref label	sobota Template:Ref label	njedźela Template:Ref label
Lower Sorbian	pónjeźela, pónjeźele	wałtora Template:Ref label	srjoda	stwórtk	pětk	sobota	njeźela, njeźelka
Polish	poniedziałek Template:Ref label	wtorek Template:Ref label	środa Template:Ref label	czwartek Template:Ref label	piątek Template:Ref label	sobota Template:Ref label	niedziela Template:Ref label
Kashubian	pòniedzôłk	wtórk	strzoda	czwiôrtk	piątk	sobòta	niedzela
Slovene	ponedeljek Template:Ref label	torek Template:Ref label	sreda Template:Ref label	četrtek Template:Ref label	petek Template:Ref label	sobota Template:Ref label	nedelja Template:Ref label
Burgenland Croatian	pandiljak, ponediljak	utorak Template:Ref label	srijeda	četvrtak	petak	subota	nedilja
Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian (Ijekavian/Ekavian)	ponedjeljak, понедјељак Template:Ref label	utorak, уторак Template:Ref label	srijeda, сриједа Template:Ref label	četvrtak, четвртак Template:Ref label	petak, петак Template:Ref label	subota, субота Template:Ref label	nedjelja, недјеља Template:Ref label
	понедељак, ponedeljak Template:Ref label		среда, sreda Template:Ref label				недеља, nedelja Template:Ref label
Macedonian	понеделник ponedelnik Template:Ref label	вторник vtornik Template:Ref label	среда sreda Template:Ref label	четврток chetvrtok Template:Ref label	петок petok Template:Ref label	сабота sabota Template:Ref label	недела nedela Template:Ref label
Bulgarian	понеделник ponedelnik Template:Ref label	вторник vtornik Template:Ref label	сряда sryada Template:Ref label	четвъртък chetvărtăk Template:Ref label	петък petăk Template:Ref label	събота săbota Template:Ref label	неделя nedelya Template:Ref label
Interslavic	ponedělok, понедєлок Template:Ref label	vtorok, второк Template:Ref label	srěda, срєда Template:Ref label	četvrtok, четврток Template:Ref label	petok, петок Template:Ref label	subota, субота Template:Ref label	nedělja, недєлја Template:Ref label
Lithuanian	pirmadienis	antradienis	trečiadienis	ketvirtadienis	penktadienis Template:Ref label	šeštadienis	sekmadienis
Latvian	pirmdiena	otrdiena	trešdiena	ceturtdiena Template:Ref label	piektdiena Template:Ref label	sestdiena	svētdiena
Hungarian	hétfő Template:Ref label	kedd Template:Ref label	szerda Template:Ref label Slavic	csütörtök Template:Ref label Slavic	péntek Template:Ref label Slavic	szombat Template:Ref label Hebrew	vasárnap Template:Ref label
Estonian	esmaspäev Template:Ref label	teisipäev Template:Ref label	kolmapäev Template:Ref label	neljapäev Template:Ref label	reede Template:Ref label	laupäevTemplate:Ref label	pühapäevTemplate:Ref label
Võro	iispäiv Template:Ref label	tõõsõpäiv Template:Ref label	kolmapäiv Template:Ref label	nelläpäiv Template:Ref label	riidi Template:Ref label	puuľpäivTemplate:Ref label	pühäpäivTemplate:Ref label
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 Template:Ref label	бүтэн сайн өдөр büten sayn ödör Template:Ref label
Luo	Wuok tich	Tich ariyo	Tich adek	Tich ang'uen	Tich abich	Chieng' ngeso	Juma pil
Tok Pisin (Melanesian Pidgin)	mande	tunde	trinde	fonde	fraide	sarere	sande
Apma (Vanuatu)	ren bwaleh / mande<ref>Ren is "day". Numbered weekdays are used for Tuesday-Friday and sometimes Monday; the names for Saturday and Sunday come from English.</ref>	ren karu	ren katsil	ren kavet	ren kalim	lesaare	sande
Sona (constructed language)	enyodi	doyodi	tinyodi	cayodi	penyodi	xiodi	zunyodi

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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In Standard Chinese, the week is referred to as the "Stellar Period" (Template:Lang-zh) or "Cycle" (Template:Lang-zh).

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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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" (Template:Lang-zh), 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.

Day	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
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Standard Modern Chinese (regional, informal, colloquial)	lang}} Template:Transliteration	lang}} Template:Transliteration	lang}} Template:Transliteration	lang}} Template:Transliteration	lang}} Template:Transliteration	lang}} Template:Transliteration	lang}} Template:Transliteration (or Template:Transliteration)

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

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.

Day Number from One	Sunday (Day One)	Monday (Day Two)	Tuesday (Day Three)	Wednesday (Day Four)	Thursday (Day Five)	Friday (Day Six)	Saturday (Day Seven)
Icelandic	sunnudagur	mánudagur	þriðjudagur	miðvikudagur Template:Ref label	fimmtudagur	föstudagur Template:Ref label	laugardagur Template:Ref label
Hebrew	[[:he:יום ראשון|Template:Script/Hebrew]] yom rishon	[[:he:יום שני|Template:Script/Hebrew]] yom sheyni	[[:he:יום שלישי|Template:Script/Hebrew]] yom shlishi	[[:he:יום רביעי|Template:Script/Hebrew]] yom revi'i	[[:he:יום חמישי|Template:Script/Hebrew]] yom chamishi	[[:he:יום שישי|Template:Script/Hebrew]] yom shishi	[[:he:שבת|Template:Script/Hebrew]] ShabbatTemplate:Ref label
Ecclesiastical Latin	Dominica Template:Ref label	feria secunda	feria tertia	feria quarta	feria quinta	feria sexta	sabbatum Template:Ref label
Portuguese	domingo Template:Ref label	segunda-feira	terça-feira	quarta-feira	quinta-feira	sexta-feira	sábado Template:Ref label
Galician	domingo Template:Ref label	segunda feira	terza feira terceira feira	corta feira quarta feira	quinta feira	sexta feira	sábado Template:Ref label
Mirandese	demingo Template:Ref label	segunda-feira	terça-feira	quarta-feira	quinta-feira	sesta-feira	sábado Template:Ref label
Tetum	loron-domingu	loron-segunda	loron-tersa	loron-kuarta	loron-kinta	loron-sesta	loron-sábadu
Greek	Κυριακή Kyriakí Template:Ref label	Δευτέρα Deftéra	Τρίτη Tríti	Τετάρτη Tetárti	Πέμπτη Pémpti	Παρασκευή Paraskeví Template:Ref label	Σάββατο Sávato Template:Ref label
Georgian	კვირა k'vira Template:Ref label	ორშაბათი oršabati	სამშაბათი samšabati	ოთხშაბათი otxšabati	ხუთშაბათი xutšabati	პარასკევი p'arask'evi Template:Ref label	შაბათი šabati Template:Ref label
Western Armenian	Կիրակի Giragi Template:Ref label	Երկուշաբթի Yergushapti	Երեքշաբթի Yerekshapti	Չորեքշաբթի Chorekshapti	Հինգշաբթի Hinkshapti	Ուրբաթ Urpat Template:Ref label	Շաբաթ Shapat Template:Ref label
Eastern Armenian	կիրակի kiraki Template:Ref label	երկուշաբթի yerkushapʰtʰi	երեքշաբթի yerekʰshapʰtʰi	չորեքշաբթի chʰorekʰshapʰtʰi	հինգշաբթի hingshapʰtʰi	ուրբաթ urpʰatʰ Template:Ref label	շաբաթ shapʰatʰ Template:Ref label
Vietnamese	chủ nhật/chúa nhật Template:Ref label	thứ hai	thứ ba	thứ tư	thứ năm	thứ sáu	thứ bảy
Somali	lang}} Axad	lang}} Isniin	lang}} Talaado	lang}} Arbaco	lang}} Khamiis	lang}} Jimco	lang}} Sabti
Amharic	lang}} əhud	lang}} säñño	lang}} maksäñño	lang}} räbu, {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} rob	lang}} hamus	lang}} arb	lang}} ḳədame
Arabic	lang}} al-ʔaḥad	lang}} al-iṯnayn	lang}} aṯ-ṯulāṯāʔ	lang}} al-ʔarbiʕāʔ	lang}} al-ḵamīs	lang}} al-jumuʕah Template:Ref label (also الجُمْعَة al-jumʕah )	lang}} as-sabt Template:Ref label
Maltese	il-Ħadd	it-Tnejn	it-Tlieta	l-Erbgħa	il-Ħamis	il-Ġimgħa Template:Ref label	is-Sibt Template:Ref label
Malay (incl. Indonesian and Malaysian)	Ahad or MingguTemplate:Ref label	Isnin or Senin	Selasa	Rabu	K(h)amis	Juma(a)t Template:Ref label	Sabtu Template:Ref label
Javanese	Ngahad, Ngakad, MingguTemplate:Ref label	Senèn	Selasa	Rebo	Kemis	Jemuwah Template:Ref label	Setu Template:Ref label
Sundanese	Minggu / Minggon Template:Ref label	Senén	Salasa	Rebo	Kemis	Jumaah Template:Ref label	Saptu Template:Ref label
Persian	یکشنبه yekšanbe	دوشنبه došanbe	سه‌شنبه sešanbe	چهارشنبه čāhāršanbe	پنجشنبه panjšanbe	آدینه or جمعه ādine Template:Ref label or djom'e Template:Ref label	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 شمبےTemplate:Ref label du shambey	سہ شمبے sey shambey	چار شمبے char shambey	پچھمبے pachhambey	آدینہTemplate:Ref label adina	شمبے
Kurdish	Yekşem	Duşem	Sêşem	Çarşem	Pêncşem	În	Şemî
Uyghur	Template:Langx	Template:Langx	Template:Langx	Template:Langx	Template:Langx	Template:Langx	Template:Langx
Old Turkic	birinç kün	ikinç kün	üçünç kün	törtinç kün	beşinç kün	altınç kün	yetinç kün
Turkish	Pazar Template:Ref label	Pazartesi Template:Ref label	SalıTemplate:Efn	ÇarşambaTemplate:Efn	PerşembeTemplate:Efn	Cuma Template:Ref label	Cumartesi Template:Ref label
Azerbaijani	Bazar	Bazar ertəsi	Çərşənbə axşamı	Çərşənbə	Cümə axşamı	Cümə	Şənbə
Uzbek	Yakshanba	Dushanba	Seshanba	Chorshanba	Payshanba	Juma	Shanba
Navajo	Template:Spell-nv Template:Ref label	Template:Spell-nv	Template:Spell-nv	Template:Spell-nv	Template:Spell-nv	Template:Spell-nv	Template:Spell-nv

Days numbered from Saturday

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 Day Seven
Swahili<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	jumamosi	jumapili	jumatatu	jumanne	jumatano	alhamisi Template:Ref label	ijumaa Template:Ref label

Mixing of numbering and astronomy

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.<ref>[1] Template:Webarchive</ref>

Day	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Istro-Romanian, Žejane dialect	lur	utorek	sredu	četrtok	virer	simbota Template:Ref label	dumireca Template:Ref label

There are several systems in the different Basque dialects.<ref name="Knorr">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.</ref>

Day	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
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.<ref>See the image in {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} The Ladino names are in the right-hand column, written in Hebrew characters.</ref>

Day	Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
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The days of the week in Meitei language (officially known as Manipuri language) originated from the Sanamahi creation myth of Meitei mythology.<ref>Wakoklon Heelel Thilel Salai Amai Eelon Pukok PuYa</ref> <ref>Wachetlon Pathup PuYa</ref> <ref>Kham Oi Yang Oi Sekning PuYa</ref> <ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

	Sunday the Hill	Monday King's Climb	Tuesday Earth's Birth	Wednesday Houses Built	Thursday Horses Rode	Friday Blood Flood	Saturday Swords Washed
Meitei	Nongmaiching	Ningthoukaba	Leibakpokpa	Yumsakeisa	Sagonsen	Eerai	Thangcha

See also

• 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

Sunday

Template:Note label Lord's Day – From Latin {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) or Greek {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (Template:Transliteration)

Template:Note label Holy Day and First-Day of the Week (Day of the Sun -> Light -> Resurrection -> Born again) (Christianity)

Template:Note label Resurrection (Christianity)

Template:Note label Bazaar Day

Template:Note label Market Day

Template:Note label No Work

Template:Note label Full good day

Template:Note label Borrowed from English week

Template:Note label From an Old Burmese word, not of Indic origin.

Monday

Template:Note label After No Work

Template:Note label After Bazaar

Template:Note label Head of Week

Template:Note label Master (as in Pir, because Muhammad was born on a Monday)

Template:Note label From an Old Burmese word, not of Indic origin.

Template:Note label First day of the week

Tuesday

Template:Note label Thing (Assembly), of which god Tyr/Ziu was the patron.

Template:Note label Second day of the week (cf. Hungarian {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} 'two')

Template:Note label Third day of the week.

Template:Note label From Arabic Template:Transliteration 'third day'

Template:Note label From Proto-Slavic Template:Wt 'second'

Wednesday

Template:Note label Mid-week or Middle

Template:Note label The First Fast (Christianity)

Template:Note label Third day of the week

Thursday

Template:Note label The day between two fasts (An Dé idir dhá aoin, contracted to An Déardaoin) (Christianity)

Template:Note label Five (Arabic)

Template:Note label Fifth day of the week.

Template:Note label Fourth day of the week.

Friday

Template:Note label The Fast (Celtic) or Fasting Day (Icelandic) (Christianity)

Template:Note label Good Friday or Preparation (Christianity)

Template:Note label Jumu'ah (Friday Prayer)

Template:Note label Gathering/Assembly/Meeting (Islam) – in Malta with no Islamic connotations

Template:Note label Fifth day of the week

Template:Note label 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

Template:Note label Shabbat (Jewish and Christian Sabbath)

Template:Note label Wash or Bath day

Template:Note label Sun-eve (Eve of Sunday)

Template:Note label After the Gathering (Islam)

Template:Note label End of the Week (Arabic {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} 'rest')

Template:Note label Week

Template:Note label Half good day

Template:Note label Half day

Further reading

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• Neugebauer, Otto (1979). Ethiopic astronomy and computus, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, philosophisch-historische klasse, sitzungsberichte, 347 (Vienna)

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