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The names of the days of the week in various world languages can be classified as either numerical or planetary, both of which may have the names of one or more days changed for religious or secular reasons. As exceptions, Sunday is often named "Lord" (for Lord's Day) while Saturday is often named "Sabbath" or "washing day". The " Lord's Day " is one of the traditional Christian names for Sunday the first day of the Judaeo-Christian seven-day week observed by most Christians as the memorial Numerically named days may associate day one with Sunday as in Arabic, Hebrew and Portuguese, or may associate day one with Monday as in Russian and other Slavic languages. Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language Portuguese ( or língua portuguesa) is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia (Spain and northern Portugal. Russian ( transliteration:,) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages The Slavic languages (also called Slavonic languages) a group of closely related Languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages Planetary names for the days are derived from the Sun, Moon, and five visible planets (Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn), which in turn were named for Roman gods with the same names. The Sun (Sol is the Star at the center of the Solar System. The VENUS ( V ictoria E xperimental N etwork U nder the S ea project is a cabled sea floor observatory operated by the University The Germanic languages, including English, substitute Nordic gods with similar characteristics for many of the Roman gods, although the Nordic gods themselves never were associated with the planets. The Germanic languages are a group of related languages that constitute a branch of the Indo-European (IE Language family. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States

The English names for the days of the week derive from the Anglo-Saxon deities stemming from the indigenous pantheon of the Anglo-Saxons. Continental Germanic mythology is a subset of Germanic mythology, going back to South Germanic polytheism as practiced in parts of Central Europe before Anglo-Saxon paganism refers to the Migration Period religion practiced by the English in 5th to 7th century England. For their language see Anglo-Saxon language. Anglo-Saxon is the term usually used to describe the invading Tribes in the south Thursday and Friday come from Scandinavian deities Thor and Freyja. Thor ( Old Norse: Þórr) is the red-haired and bearded God of Thunder in Germanic paganism and its subset Norse paganism Freyja (sometimes anglicized as Freya) is a major goddess in Norse Paganism, a subset of Germanic Paganism. An exception to this is Saturday, which takes its name from the Roman deity Saturn. Roman mythology, or more appropriately Latin mythology, refers to the mythological beliefs of the Italic people inhabiting the region of Latium and its Saturn ( Latin: Saturnus) was a major Roman God of agriculture and harvest To varying extents, most regions with dominant Germanic languages practice a similar naming convention, basing most of their week days in recognition of their native Germanic deities. The Germanic languages are a group of related languages that constitute a branch of the Indo-European (IE Language family. The article lists gods and Goddesses ( Ansewez, Wanizaz) that may be reconstructed for Proto-Germanic or Common Germanic Migration period

The seven-day workweek is generally comprised of five working days ("weekdays") and two non-working days (the "weekend"), though which days of the week are which varies from country to country. Which day of the week is the "first" day also varies, even among countries that share the same weekend days.

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Names of the days

Remnants of Germanic deities are reflected in the English language names for days of the week, as (more or less) calques of the Roman names:

What is different is that the gods in question (except Saturn) don't appear to preside over the planets involved. However, as shown above, they correspond to some extent to Roman gods that rule over the respective planets.

First day of the week

In English, the days of the week are Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States Sunday is the day of the week between Saturday and Monday. In the Jewish law it is the first day of the Hebrew calendar week Monday (pron ˈmʌndeɪ ˈmʌndi is a Day of the week between Sunday and Tuesday. Tuesday is the third Day of the week between Monday and Wednesday. Wednesday is the fourth Day of the week in most western countries Thursday is the fourth day of the week in most western countries and the fourth day of the week in the Judeo-Christian Calendar, falling between Wednesday Friday (pronunciation ˈfraɪdeɪ ˈfraɪdi is the day of the Week falling between Thursday and Saturday. Saturday is the day of the week between Friday and Sunday. It is either the sixth or seventh Day of the week as discussed below. Most business and social calendars in the United States and Canada mark Sunday as the first day of the week, though in the United Kingdom, Australia, South Africa and South America, Monday is considered the first day of the working week.

Sunday was the first day of the astrological week, in the Hebrew week, and in the Ecclesiastical Latin week of the first millennium. Astrology (from Greek grc ἄστρον astron, "constellation star" and grc -λογία -logia) is a group of Systems Ecclesiastical Latin (sometimes called Church Latin) is the Latin dialect as used in documents of the Roman Catholic Church and in its Latin liturgies Sunday still begins the week in the United States and to some extent in other English-speaking countries. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The following is a list of Sovereign states and territories where English is an Official language, in order of Population.

In Jewish and Christian tradition, the first day of the seven day week is Sunday. Sunday is the day of the week between Saturday and Monday. In the Jewish law it is the first day of the Hebrew calendar week According to the Bible, God created the Earth in six days, and rested on the seventh day, the Sabbath, i. Etymology According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word bible is from Latin biblia, traced from the same word through Medieval Latin and Late Latin Shabbat or Shabbos ( Hebrew: שַׁבָּת, shabbāt, shabbes, "rest/inactivity" is the Weekly Sabbath e. Saturday. This made Sunday the first day of the week, while Saturdays were sanctified for celebration and rest. After the week was adopted in Early Christian Europe, Sunday remained the first day of the week, but also gradually displaced Saturday as the day of celebration and rest, being considered the Lord's Day. The " Lord's Day " is one of the traditional Christian names for Sunday the first day of the Judaeo-Christian seven-day week observed by most Christians as the memorial For this reason, in many places Sunday eventually came to be viewed as the last day of the week.

The variation is evident from names of the days in some languages — in Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, some days are simply called by their number starting from Sunday, e. g. Monday is called "Second day" etc. In other languages, like Slavic languages, days are also called after their ordinal numbers, but starting from Monday, making Tuesday the "Second day". The Slavic languages (also called Slavonic languages) a group of closely related Languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages According to another possible explanation, days from Monday to Friday in Slavic languages aren't numbered by their position within the week, but by their distance from Sunday, especially given that Wednesday is named "The Middle day", which makes it a true statement only if Sunday is the first day of the week.

In most of Europe today, South America, and parts of Asia, Monday is considered to be the first day of the week and is literally named as such in languages such as Mandarin (xingqiyi) and Lithuanian (pirmadienis). The ISO prescribes Monday as the first day of the week with ISO-8601 for software date formats. ISO 8601 is an International standard for date and Time representations issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO

Origins

Various sources point to the seven day week originated in ancient Babylonia or Sumer. Babylonia was an Amorite state in lower Mesopotamia (modern southern Iraq) with Babylon as its capital Sumer ( Sumerian: sux-Latn [[Ki (earth ki]]-[[EN (cuneiform en]]-'''ĝir15''', Akkadian: Šumeru; possibly Biblical Shinar It has been suggested that a seven day week might be much older. The seven day planetary week originated in Hellenistic Egypt. This article focuses on the historical aspects of the Hellenistic age for the cultural aspects see Hellenistic civilisation. This article is about the country of Egypt For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Egypt topics.

It is suggested that the seven day week was deriving from early human observation that there are seven celestial objects (the five visible planets plus the Sun and the Moon) which move in the night sky relative to the fixed stars. [1] Seven days is also the approximate time between the principal phases of the Moon (new, first half, full, last half). In any event, a seven day week based on heavenly luminaries eventually diffused both East and West, to the Romans via the Greeks, and to the Japanese via Manicheans, Indians and Chinese. Manichaeism (in Modern Persian fa-Arab آیین مانی Āyin e Māni; Chinese zh 摩尼教 was one of the major Gnostic Religions originating

Hindu civilization, which used a seven-day week, mentioned in the Ramayana, a sacred epic written in Sanskrit about 500 BC, used names such as Bhanu-vaar meaning Sunday, Soma-vaar meaning Moon-day and so forth. A Hindu ( Devanagari: हिन्दू is an adherent of the philosophies and scriptures of Hinduism, a set of religious, Philosophical The Rāmāyaṇa ( Devanāgarī: sa रामायण is an ancient Sanskrit epic attributed to the Hindu sage ( Maharishi) Valmiki Sanskrit (sa संस्कृता वाक् saṃskṛtā vāk, for short sa संस्कृतम् saṃskṛtam) is a historical Sunday is the day of the week between Saturday and Monday. In the Jewish law it is the first day of the Hebrew calendar week

The earliest known reference in Chinese writings is attributed to Fan Ning, who lived in the late 4th century, while diffusions via India are documented with the writings of the Chinese Buddhist monk Yi Jing and the Ceylonese or Central Asian Buddhist monk Bu Kong of the 8th century. As a means of recording the passage of Time, the 4th century (per the Julian calendar and Anno Domini / Common era) was that Century Journey to Srivijaya and Nalanda Zhang Wen Ming became a monk at age 14 and was an admirer of Fa Xian and Xuanzang, both famous monks of his childhood The Chinese transliteration of the planetary system was soon brought to Japan by the Japanese monk Kobo Daishi; surviving diaries of the Japanese statesman Fujiwara Michinaga show the seven day system in use in Heian Period Japan as early as 1007. Kūkai (ja 空海 or also known posthumously as Kōbō-Daishi (ja 弘法大師 774&ndash835 CE was a Japanese monk, Scholar Fujiwara no Michinaga (藤原 道長 966 - 3 January 1028; Japanese calendar 万寿4年12月4日 represents the highpoint of the Fujiwara regents The is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185. In Japan, the seven day system was kept in use (for astrological purposes) until its promotion to a full-fledged (Western-style) calendrical basis during the Meiji era. The, or Meiji era, denotes the 45-year reign of the Meiji Emperor, running in the Gregorian calendar, from 23 October 1868 to 30 July

The seven day week is known to have been unbroken for almost two millennia via the Alexandrian, Julian, and Gregorian calendars. The Coptic calendar, also called the Alexandrian calendar, is used by the Coptic Orthodox Church and still used in Egypt The Julian calendar, a reform of the Roman calendar, was introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC and came into force in 45 BC (709 Ab urbe condita The Gregorian calendar is the most widely used Calendar in the world today The date of Easter Sunday can be traced back through numerous computistic tables to an Ethiopic copy of an early Alexandrian table beginning with the Easter of 311 as described by Otto Neugebauer in Ethiopic astronomy and computus. Easter ( Greek: Πάσχα Pascha or Pasxa) is the most important religious feast in the Christian Liturgical year. Computus ( Latin for Computation) is the Calculation of the date of Easter in the Christian calendar. Otto Eduard Neugebauer ( May 26 1899 &ndash February 19 1990) was an Austrian - American Mathematician and Only one Roman date with an associated day of the week exists from the first century and it agrees with the modern sequence, if properly interpreted (see below). Jewish dates with a day of the week do not survive from this early period.

In other languages

Romance languages

In most Romance languages, such as Italian, Spanish, French and Romanian, the names of the days except Saturday and Sunday come from Roman gods via Latin. The Romance languages (sometimes referred to as Romanic languages, or Neolatin languages) are a branch of the Indo-European language family comprising all Italian ( or lingua italiana) is a Romance language spoken by about 63 million people as a First language, primarily in Italy. French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people Romanian or Daco-Romanian ( dated: Rumanian or Roumanian; self designation limba română, ˈlimba roˈmɨnə is a Romance Latin itself calqued the names from Greek. The Roman (Latin) names of the days are still used in some English courts such as the House of Lords. . [2]

The major exception is Portuguese which uses a numbered system derived from the Catholic Latin week. Portuguese ( or língua portuguesa) is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia (Spain and northern Portugal.

Christianization

The early Christian Church, uncomfortable using names based on pagan gods, introduced a simple numerical nomenclature which persists in some European languages such as Portuguese and Greek. A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth Paganism (from Latin paganus, meaning "country dweller rustic" is a word used to refer to various religions and religious beliefs from across the world Portuguese ( or língua portuguesa) is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia (Spain and northern Portugal. Greek (el ελληνική γλώσσα or simply el ελληνικά — "Hellenic" is an Indo-European language, spoken today by 15-22 million people mainly The Christian names are derived from Hebrew, which numbers all days of the week beginning with "First day" for Sunday but ending with the "Sabbath" for Saturday. Arabic names for Sunday through Thursday are first through fifth days; Friday (the day when Muslims are expected to perform noon prayers as a group) is named the "gathering day" and Saturday is Sabt which means "the End" because the count of the days of the week end with it. Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language A Muslim (مسلم pronounced Muslim, not Muzlim) is an adherent of the Religion

It was Saint Martin of Dumio (c. Saint Martin of Dumio (c 520 &ndash 580 was an archbishop of Braga in Portugal, a monastic founder and an ecclesiastical author 520–580), archbishop of Braga, who decided that it was unworthy of good Christians to call the days of the week by the Latin names of pagan gods and decided to use the ecclesiastic terminology to designate them (Feria secunda, Feria tertia, Feria quarta, Feria quinta, Feria sexta, Sabbatum, Dominica Dies), from which came the present Portuguese numbered system. Events By Place Europe Ostrogothic ruler Theodoric the Great builds the Mausoleum of Theodoric as his future Events By Place Europe Ethelbert becomes king of Kent. The Roman Senate sends an embassy to Constantinople Braga (ˈBrag-uh a city and municipality in northwestern Portugal, is the capital of the district of Braga, the oldest archdiocese Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Martin also tried to replace the names of the planets, but in that he was not successful. In Middle Ages, Galician-Portuguese still retained both systems (as seen in older texts), nowadays only Portuguese's sister language Galician uses the old Roman gods system. Galician-Portuguese (also known as galego-português or galaico-português in Portuguese and as galego-portugués or galaico-portugués For that reason, the first day of the week in Portuguese is Sunday (Domingo).

The Slavic languages adopted numbering but took Monday rather than Sunday as the "first day". The Slavic languages (also called Slavonic languages) a group of closely related Languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages

Celtic languages

Welsh, the closest living language to that of Roman Britain, faithfully preserves all the Latin names,[3] even though the language itself is not directly descended from Latin. Welsh ( cy Cymraeg or cy y Gymraeg, kəmˈrɑːɨɡ and {{IPA|[ə ɡəmˈrɑːɨɡ]}}, is a member of the Brythonic branch of Celtic Roman Britain refers to those parts of the island of Great Britain controlled by the Roman Empire between AD 43 and 410

In Irish, the Latin names are used for Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Irish (ga ''Gaeilge'' is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish. [4] Three days are named for the traditional Roman Catholic days of fasting and abstinence. For Roman Catholics, Fasting is the reduction of one's intake of food to one full meal a day Wednesday is "the first fast": An Chéadaoin; Friday "the fast": An Aoine; leaving Thursday as "the day between two fasts", An Dé idir dhá aoin, contracted to An Déardaoin.

Germanic languages

In English all the days of the week are named after the ruling luminary, with most of the names coming from Germanic deities, such as Wodan (Wednesday) and Thor (Thursday). Germanic paganism refers to the religious beliefs of the Germanic peoples preceding Christianization. Wōden is a god in Anglo-Saxon paganism, together with Norse Odin representing a development of a Proto-Germanic god * Wōdanaz Wednesday is the fourth Day of the week in most western countries Thor ( Old Norse: Þórr) is the red-haired and bearded God of Thunder in Germanic paganism and its subset Norse paganism Thursday is the fourth day of the week in most western countries and the fourth day of the week in the Judeo-Christian Calendar, falling between Wednesday Sunday and Monday are named directly from the Sun and Moon.

Saturday is the only day named directly after a Roman god, though the Germanic god associated with each day is generally a syncretic calque of the corresponding divinity from the Roman calendar. Roman mythology, or more appropriately Latin mythology, refers to the mythological beliefs of the Italic people inhabiting the region of Latium and its Syncretism consists of the attempt to reconcile disparate or contradictory beliefs often while melding practices of various schools of thought In Linguistics, a calque (kælk or loan translation is a Word or Phrase borrowed from another Language by Literal, word-for-word Other Germanic languages generally follow the same pattern, although the German for Wednesday is Mittwoch (mid-week) and Dutch is the only other with an equivalent to Saturday. The Germanic languages are a group of related languages that constitute a branch of the Indo-European (IE Language family.

Icelandic is notably divergent, maintaining only the Sun and Moon (sunnudagur and mánudagur respectively), while dispensing with the names of the explicitly heathen gods in favor of a combination of numbered days and days whose names are linked to pious or domestic routine (föstudagur, "Fasting Day" and laugardagur, "Washing Day"). Icelandic ( is a North Germanic language, the language of Iceland. The "washing day" is also used in other North Germanic languages, although the "pagan" names generally are retained . The North Germanic languages or Scandinavian languages make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages, a sub-family of the Indo-European languages

Indic Languages

In the Hindu Calendar followed in South Asia and South-East Asia the days of the week (named after the planets, starting from Sunday) are called bhaanu vaasara (Sun), indu vaasara (Moon), mangal vaasara (Mars), saumya vaasara (Mercury), guru vaasara (Jupiter) bhrigu vaasara (Venus), sthira vaasara (Saturn). The Hindu calendar used in ancient times has undergone many changes in the process of regionalization and today there are several regional Indian Calendars, as

The names of days in India are Ravivar (Sunday), Somavar (Monday), Mangalvar (Tuesday), Budhavar (Wednesday), Guruvar (Thursday), Shukravar (Friday) and Shanivar (Saturday)

Japanese and Korean

In Japanese and Korean, the days of the week are named after the Chinese astrological week, which is based on the Indian luminary week. is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities This article is mainly about the spoken Korean language See Hangul for details on the native Korean writing system The Chinese associated the five classical planets with the Five Elements. In traditional Chinese philosophy, natural phenomena can be classified into the Wu Xing ( or the Five Phases, usually translated as five elements, Notably, the order of the planets follows the Indian week, and not the order of the Chinese elements. (See table below. ) For example, the planet Mercury is associated with the element Water, and Wednesday (dies Mercuris) is called "day of water" (suiyoubi, in Sino-Japanese). These names of days of the week were introduced by the end of the first millennium CE to Japan and Korea, but they were not widely used in Japanese or Korean daily life until the late 19th century.

Chinese

In modern Chinese, days of the week are numbered from one to six, except Sunday. Literally, the Chinese term of Sunday means "week day"(星期日 or 星期天). Monday is named literally "week one" in Chinese, Tuesday is "week two", and so on. However, China adopted the Western calendar, putting Sunday at the beginning of the calendar week, and Saturday (星期六, meaning "week six" in Chinese) at the end.

A second way to refer to weekdays is using the word zhou (周), meaning "cycle. " Therefore Sunday is referred to as zhoumo (周末), meaning "cycle's end" and Monday through Saturday is termed accordingly zhouyi (周一） "first of cycle," zhouer (周二 ) "second of cycle," and etc.

Another Chinese numbering system, found sometimes in spoken Chinese of southern languages (i. e. Cantonese/Yue, or Fukinese/Min), refers to Sunday as the "day of worship" (礼拜日 or 礼拜天) and numbers the other days "first [day after] worship" (Monday) through "sixth [day after] worship" (Saturday). The Chinese word used for "worship" is associated with Christian and Muslim worship, and the system's use may be connected with the arrival of Christianity, especially prevalent during in the 18th and 19th centuries in south coastal port cities.

In traditional Chinese calenders, days may still be referred to by their association with the sun, moon, and the Chinese elements of fire, water, wood, metal, and earth.

Cross-linguistic overview

The (suggested) purpose of these tables is to show how far different languages preserve the associations with the associated celestial bodies of ancient times and the Church's numbering of the days. (That is, not to list the names in "every" language: Wiktionary entries for the day names offer such lists – click on the links in the header row. Wiktionary (a Portmanteau of Wiki and Dictionary) is a multilingual, Web -based project to create a Free )

Planetary

Day Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
Celestial Body & Astronomical symbol Sun Sun Moon Moon Mars Mars Mercury Mercury Jupiter Jupiter Venus Venus Saturn Saturn
Latin dies Solis dies Lunae dies Martis dies Mercurĭi dies Jovis dies Venĕris dies Saturni
Italian domenica (1) lunedì martedì mercoledì giovedì venerdì sabato (2)
Spanish domingo (1) lunes martes miércoles jueves viernes sábado (2)
Romanian duminică (1) luni marţi miercuri joi vineri sâmbătă (2)
French dimanche (1) lundi mardi mercredi jeudi vendredi samedi (2)
Galician domingo (1) luns martes mércores xoves venres sábado (2)
Catalan diumenge (1) dilluns dimarts dimecres dijous divendres dissabte (2)
Interlingua Dominica (1) Lunedi Martedi Mercuridi Jovedi Venerdi Sabbato (2)
Ido Sundio Lundio Mardio Merkurdio Jovdio Venerdio Saturdio (2)
Esperanto dimanĉo (1) lundo mardo merkredo ĵaŭdo vendredo sabato (2)
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
Irish An Domhnach (1)
Dé Domhnaigh		 An Luan
Dé Luain		 An Mháirt
Dé Máirt		 An Chéadaoin
Dé Céadaoin
first fast		 An Déardaoin
Déardaoin
day between two fasts		 An Aoine
Dé hAoine
fast		 An Satharn
Dé Sathairn
Scots Gaelic Di-Dòmhnaich (1) Di-Luain Di-Màirt Di-Ciadain Di-Ardaoin Di-Haoine Di-Sàthairne
Manx Jedoonee (1) Jelune Jemayrt Jecrean Jerdrein Jeheiney Jesarn
West Frisian Snein Moandei Tiisdei Woansdei Tongersdei Freed Sneon (8) or
Saterdei
Old English Sunnandæg
sun's day		 Mōnandæg Tiwesdæg
Tiw's day		 Wodnesdæg
Woden's day		 Þunresdæg
Thunor's day		 Frigesdæg
Frige's day		 Sæternesdæg
Old High German Sunnuntag Mānetag Zeistag
Ziu's day		 Wodanstag
Wodan's day		 Donerestag
Donar's day		 Friatag
Freia's day		 Sambaztag (2)
German Sonntag Montag Dienstag Mittwoch (3) Donnerstag Freitag Samstag (2) or
Sonnabend (8)
Dutch zondag
Sun day		 maandag
Moon day		 dinsdag
Thing day		 woensdag
Woden's day		 donderdag
Donar's day		 vrijdag
Freia day		 zaterdag
Old Norse Sunnundagr
Sunna's day		 Mánandagr Tysdagr
Tyr's day		 Óðensdagr
Odin's day		 Þorsdagr
Thor's day		 Friádagr
Freyja's day		 Laugardagr (4)
Norwegian, Bokmål søndag mandag tirsdag onsdag torsdag fredag lørdag (4)
Norwegian, Nynorsk sundag måndag tysdag onsdag torsdag fredag laurdag (4)
Danish søndag mandag tirsdag onsdag torsdag fredag lørdag (4)
Swedish söndag måndag tisdag onsdag torsdag fredag lördag (4)
Finnish sunnuntai maanantai tiistai keskiviikko (3) torstai perjantai lauantai (4)
Albanian E diel E hënë E martë E mërkurë E enjte E premte E shtunë
Tagalog Linggo (1) Lunes Martes Miyerkules Huwebes Biyernes Sabado (2)
Sanskrit भानुवासरम्
Bhaanu day (Sun)		 इन्दुवासरम्
Indu day (Moon)		 भौमवासरम्
Bhauma day (Mars)		 सौम्यवासरम्
Saumya day (Mercury)		 गुरूवासरम
Guru day (Jupiter)		 भ्रगुवासरम्
Bhrgu day (Venus)		 स्थिरवासरम्
Sthira day (Saturn)
Hindi रविवार
Ravivār (Sun day)		 सोमवार
Somavār (Moon day)		 मंगलवार
Mangalavār (Mars day)		 बुधवार
Budhavār (Mercury day)		 गुरूवार
Guruvār (Jupiter day)		 शुक्रवार
Shukravār (Venus day)		 शनिवार
Shanivār (Saturn day)
Bengali রবিবার
Robibar (Sun day)		 সোমবার
Shombar (Moon day)		 মঙ্গলবার
Monggolbar (Mars day)		 বুধবার
Budhbar (Mercury day)		 বৃহস্পতিবার
Brihôshpotibar (Jupiter day)		 শুক্রবার
Shukrobar (Venus day)		 শনিবার
Shonibar (Saturn day)
Gujarati રવિવાર
Ravivār		 સોમવાર
Somavār		 મંગળવાર
Mangalavār		 બુધવાર
Budhavār		 ગુરૂવાર
Guruvār		 શુક્રવાર
Shukravār		 શનિવાર
Shanivār
Tamil ஞாயிற்று
கிழமை
Nyāyitru day		 திங்கட்
கிழமை
Thingat day		 செவ்வாய்க்
கிழமை
Sevvāi day		 புதன்க்
கிழமை
Budhan day		 வியாழக்
கிழமை
Vyāzha day		 வெள்ளிக்
கிழமை
Velli day		 சனிக்
கிழமை
Shani day
Telugu Aadi day Soma day Mangala day Budha day Bestha/Guru/Lakshmi day Shukra day Shani day
Thai วันอาทิตย์
(Sun day)
(Colour: Red)		 วันจันทร์
(Moon day)
(Colour: Yellow)		 วันอังคาร
(Mars (planet) day)
(Colour: Pink)		 วันพุธ
(Mercury (planet) day)
(Colour: Green)		 วันพฤหัสบดี
(Jupiter (planet) day)
(Colour: Orange)		 วันศุกร์
(Venus (planet) day)
(Colour: Blue)		 วันเสาร์
(Saturn (planet) day)
(Colour: Purple)
Old Chinese (5) 日曜日
(Sun's day)		 月曜日
(Moon's day)		 火曜日
(Fire planet day) (Mars)		 水曜日
(Water planet day) (Mercury)		 木曜日
(Wood planet day) (Jupiter)		 金曜日
(Metal planet day) (Venus)		 土曜日
(Earth planet day) (Saturn)
Japanese (5) 日曜日
にちようび
(Sun day)		 月曜日
げつようび
(Moon day)		 火曜日
かようび
(Fire planet day) (Mars)		 水曜日
すいようび
(Water planet day) (Mercury)		 木曜日
もくようび
(Wood planet day) (Jupiter)		 金曜日
きんようび
(Metal planet day) (Venus)		 土曜日
どようび
(Earth planet day) (Saturn)
Korean (5) 일요일
(Sun's day)		 월요일
(Moon's day)		 화요일
(Fire planet day) (Mars)		 수요일
(Water planet day) (Mercury)		 목요일
(Wood planet day) (Jupiter)		 금요일
(Metal planet day) (Venus)		 토요일
(Earth planet day) (Saturn)
Tibetan gza' nyi ma
(Sun's day)		 gza' zla ba
(Moon's day)		 gza' mig mar
(Fire planet day) (Mars)		 gza' lhag pa
(Water planet day) (Mercury)		 gza' phur bu
(Wood planet day) (Jupiter)		 gza' pa sangs
(Metal planet day) (Venus)		 gza' spen pa
(Earth planet day) (Saturn)
Mongolian (arga) ням
nyam
(planet Sun)		 даваа
davaa
(planet Moon)		 мягмар
myagmar
(planet Mars)		 лхагва
lkhagva
(planet Mercury)		 пүрэв
pürev
(planet Jupiter)		 баасан
baasan
(planet Venus)		 бямба
byamba
(planet Saturn)
Mongolian (bilig) адъяа
adiya
(planet Sun)		 сумъяа
sumiya
(planet Moon)		 ангараг
angarag
(planet Mars)		 буд
bud
(planet Mercury)		 бархабадь
barhasbadi
(planet Jupiter)		 сугар
sugar
(planet Venus)		 санчир
sanchir
(planet Saturn)

Numerical

Starting on Sunday
Day Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
Hebrew יום ראשון
yom rishon
(First day)		 יום שני
yom sheyni
(Second day)		 יום שלישי
yom shlishi
(Third day)		 יום רביעי
yom revi'i
(Fourth day)		 יום חמישי
yom khamishi
(Fifth day)		 יום שישי
yom shishi
(Sixth day)		 יום שבת
yom Shabbat
(Sabbath) (2)
Arabic يوم الأحد
yaum al-ahad
(First day)		 يوم الإثنين
yaum al-ithnayn
(Second day)		 يوم الثُّلَاثاء
yaum ath-thulatha
(Third day)		 يوم الأَرْبعاء
yaum al-arbiaa
(Fourth day)		 يوم الخَمِيس
yaum al-khamees
(Fifth day)		 يوم الجُمْعَة
yaum al-jumuah
(Meeting day)		 يوم السَّبْت
yaum as-sabt (2)
(End day)
Ecclesiastical Latin Dominica (1)
(Lord's [Day])		 feria secunda
(Second weekday)		 feria tertia
(Third weekday)		 feria quarta
(Fourth weekday)		 feria quinta
(Fifth weekday)		 feria sexta
(Sixth weekday)		 sabbatum (2)
(Sabbath)
Portuguese (also Galician) domingo (1)
(Lord's day)		 segunda-feira
(Second weekday)		 terça-feira
(Third weekday)		 quarta-feira
(Fourth weekday)		 quinta-feira
(Fifth weekday)		 sexta-feira
(Sixth weekday)		 sábado (2)
(Sabbath)
Greek Κυριακή (1)
Kyriakí
(Lord's day)		 Δευτέρα
Dheftéra
(Second)		 Τρίτη
Tríti
(Third)		 Τετάρτη
Tetárti
(Fourth)		 Πέμπτη
Pémpti
(Fifth)		 Παρασκευή
Paraskeví
(Preparation)		 Σάββατο (2)
Sávato
(Sabbath)
Icelandic sunnudagur (6)
(Sun day)		 mánudagur (6)
(Moon day)		 þriðjudagur
(Third day)		 miðvikudagur (3)
(Mid week day)		 fimmtudagur
(Fifth day)		 föstudagur
(Fast day)		 laugardagur (4)
(Washing day)
Armenian Կիրակի
Kiraki
 Երկուշաբթի
Yerkushabti
(two days
after Sabbath)		 Երեքշաբթի
Yerekshabti
(three days
after Sabbath)		 Չորեքշաբթի
Chorekshabti
(four days
after Sabbath)		 Հինգշաբթի
Hingshabti
(five days
after Sabbath)		 Ուրբաթ
Urbat		 Շաբաթ
Shabat (2)
(Sabbath)
Georgian კვირა
Kvira
(Lord)		 ორშაბათი
Oršabat'i
(two days
after Sabbath)		 სამშაბათი
Samšabat'i
(three days
after Sabbath)		 ოთხშაბათი
Ot'xšabat'i
(four days
after Sabbath)		 ხუთშაბათი
Xut'šabat'i
(five days
after Sabbath)		 პარასკები
Paraskevi (Preparation)		 შაბათი
Šabat'i (2)
(Sabbath)
Kazakh жексенбi
zheksenbe
(first day)		 дүйсенбi
Düysenbi
(second day)		 сейсенбi
Seysenbi
(third day)		 сәрсенбі
Särsenbi
(fourth day)		 бейсенбі
Beysenbi
(fifth day)		 жұма
Juma
(week)		 сенбі
Senbi
(Night and Day) shabAneh rooz
Persian یکشنبه
yekshanbeh
(first day)		 دوشنبه
doshanbeh
(second day)		 سه شنبه
seshanbeh
(third day)		 چهارشنبه
chaharshanbeh
(fourth day)		 پنجشنبه
panjshanbeh
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Thai (th ภาษาไทย, transcription: phasa thai, transliteration:; pʰāːsǎːtʰāj is the national and Old Chinese ( or Archaic Chinese as used by linguist Bernhard Karlgren, refers to the Chinese spoken from the Shang Dynasty ( Chinese is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities This article is mainly about the spoken Korean language See Hangul for details on the native Korean writing system Tibetan refers to a group of languages spoken primarily by Tibetan peoples who live across a wide area of eastern Central Asia bordering South Asia as well as by overseas The Mongolian language (mn [[ImageMonggol kelesvg 17px]] Mongɣol kele, Cyrillic: Монгол хэл Mongol khel) is the best-known member of Shabbat or Shabbos ( Hebrew: שַׁבָּת, shabbāt, shabbes, "rest/inactivity" is the Weekly Sabbath Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language Ecclesiastical Latin (sometimes called Church Latin) is the Latin dialect as used in documents of the Roman Catholic Church and in its Latin liturgies The " Lord's Day " is one of the traditional Christian names for Sunday the first day of the Judaeo-Christian seven-day week observed by most Christians as the memorial In Christianity, the Sabbath is generally a weekly religious Day of rest as ordained by one of the Ten Commandments (the third by Roman Catholic Portuguese ( or língua portuguesa) is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia (Spain and northern Portugal. 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Adineh, alt. Jomeh
(day of faith, alt. gathering day)		 شنبه
shanbeh
(night and day) shabAneh rooz
Turkish pazar
(bazaar day)		 pazartesi
(after the bazaar)		 salı
(third day)		 çarşamba
(fourth day)		 perşembe
(fifth day)		 cuma
(gathering day)		 cumartesi
(after the gathering)
Old Turkic birinç kün
(first day)		 ikinç kün
(second day)		 üçünç kün
(third day)		 törtinç kün
(fourth day)		 beşinç kün
(fifth day)		 altınç kün
(sixth day)		 yetinç kün
(seventh day)
Vietnamese chủ nhật (Master's day) or
chúa nhật (1) (Lord's day)		 (ngày) thứ hai
(Second day)		 (ngày) thứ ba
(Third day)		 (ngày) thứ tư
(Fourth day)		 (ngày) thứ năm
(Fifth day)		 (ngày) thứ sáu
(Sixth day)		 (ngày) thứ bảy
(Seventh day)
Starting on Monday
Day Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Estonian Esmaspäev Teisipäev Kolmapäev (Third) or Kesknädal (3) Neljapäev (Fourth) Reede
(ON Friádagr)		 Laupäev (4) Pühapäev
(Holy day)
Polish Poniedziałek
(After no-work)		 Wtorek
(Second)		 Środa (3)
(Middle)		 Czwartek
(Fourth)		 Piątek
(Fifth)		 Sobota (2) Niedziela
(No work)
Czech Pondělí (also Pondělek)
(After no-work)		 Úterý (also Úterek)
(Second)		 Středa (3)
(Middle)		 Čtvrtek
(Fourth)		 Pátek
(Fifth)		 Sobota (2) Neděle
(No work)
Serbian Понедељак
(After no-work)		 Уторак
(Second)
(archaic root)		 Среда
(Middle)		 Четвртак
(Fourth)		 Петак
(Fifth)		 Субота Недеља
(No work)
Croatian Ponedjeljak
(After no-work)		 Utorak
(Second)
<archaic		 Srijeda (3)
(Middle)		 Četvrtak
(Fourth)		 Petak
(Fifth)		 Subota (2) Nedjelja
(No work)
Slovenian Ponedeljek
(After no-work)		 Torek
(Second) <archaic		 Sreda (3)
(Middle)		 Četrtek
(Fourth)		 Petek
(Fifth)		 Sobota (2) Nedelja
(No work)
Bulgarian понеделник
(After no-work)		 вторник
(Second)		 сряда (3)
(Middle)		 четвъртък
(Fourth)		 петък
(Fifth)		 събота (2)
(Sabbath)		 неделя
(No work)
Macedonian понеделник
(After no-work)		 вторник
(Second)		 среда (3)
(Middle)		 четврток
(Fourth)		 петок
(Fifth)		 сабота (2)
(Sabbath)		 недела
(No work)
Hungarian Hétfő
(Head of the week)		 Kedd
(Second)		 Szerda (3)
(Middle)
< Slavic		 Csütörtök
(Fourth)
< Slavic		 Péntek
(Fifth)
< Slavic		 Szombat (2) Vasárnap
(Market day)
Lithuanian (7) Pirmadienis
(First day)		 Antradienis
(Second day)		 Trečiadienis
(Third day)		 Ketvirtadienis
(Fourth day)		 Penktadienis
(Fifth day)		 Šeštadienis
(Sixth day)		 Sekmadienis
(Seventh day)
Russian понедельник
ponedel'nik
(after no-work)		 вторник
vtornik
(second)		 среда (3)
sreda
(middle)		 четверг
chetverg
(fourth)		 пятница
pyatnitsa
(fifth)		 суббота
subbota
(sabbath) (2)		 воскресенье
voskresen'ye
(resurrection)
Ukrainian понедiлок
ponedilok
(after no-work)		 вiвторок
vivtorok
(second)		 середа (3)
sereda
(middle)		 четвер
chetver
(fourth)		 п'ятниця
p'yatnitsya
(fifth)		 субота
subota
(sabbath) (2)		 недiля
nedilya
(no-work)
Chinese
(Standard Mandarin transcription in Hanyu Pinyin)		 星期一
xīngqī yī
(week: 1)		 星期二
xīngqī èr
(week: 2)		 星期三
xīngqī sān
(week: 3)		 星期四
xīngqī sì
(week: 4)		 星期五
xīngqī wǔ
(week: 5)		 星期六
xīngqī liù
(week: 6)		 星期日
xīngqī rì
(week: day)
or 星期天
xīngqí tiān
(week: day)
Mongolian
(numerical)		 нэг дэх өдөр
neg deh odor
(first day)		 хоёр дахь өдөр
hoyor dahi odor
(second day)		 гурав дахь өдөр
gurav dahi odor
(third day)		 дөрөв дэх өдөр
dorov deh odor
(fourth day)		 тав дахь өдөр
tav dahi odor
(fifth day)		 хагас сайн өдөр
hagas sain odor
(half weekend)		 бүтэн сайн өдөр
buten sain odor
(full weekend)
ISO 8601 # 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Starting on Saturday
Day Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Swahili[5] jumamosi
(first [day
of the] week)		 jumapili
(second [day
of the] week)		 jumatatu
(third [day
of the] week)		 jumanne
(fourth [day
of the] week)		 jumatano
(fifth [day
of the] week)		 alhamisi
(five)
Arabic		 ijumaa
(assembly)
Arabic

Notes

  1. In Ecclesiastical Latin, the Romance languages, Greek, and the Gaelic languages, Sunday is named after the "Lord", because it is the day of the Resurrection of Jesus. Turkish ( tr Türkçe IPA) is a language spoken by over 63 million people worldwide making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Old Turkic (also East Old Turkic, Orkhon Turkic, Old Uyghur) is the earliest attested Turkic language, found in inscriptions by the Vietnamese ( tiếng Việt, or less commonly Việt ngữ) formerly known under French colonization as Annamese ( see Annam) Estonian (; ˈeːsti ˈkeːl is the official language of Estonia, spoken by about 1 Polish ( język polski, polszczyzna) is the Official language of Poland. Środa is the Polish word for Wednesday It appears in the names of Polish towns holding Wednesday weekly fairs There are two towns in Poland called Sobota may refer to the following places in Poland Sobota Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland Sobota Łódź Voivodeship (central Czech (ˈʧɛk čeština ˈʧɛʃcɪna in Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers it is the majority language in the Sobota may refer to the following places in Poland Sobota Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland Sobota Łódź Voivodeship (central Serbian (sr-Cyrl српски језик sr-Latn ''srpski jezik'' is a South Slavic language, Croatian language ( hrvatski jezik) is a South Slavic language which is used primarily in Croatia, by Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina in neighbouring Slovene or Slovenian ( slovenski jezik or slovenščina, not to be confused with Slovenčina) is a South Slavic language Sobota may refer to the following places in Poland Sobota Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland Sobota Łódź Voivodeship (central Bulgarian (български език IPA: ɛzˈik is an Indo-European language, a member of the Slavic linguistic group Macedonian () is the official Language of the Republic of Macedonia and is a part of the Eastern group of South Slavic languages. Hungarian ( magyar nyelv) is a Uralic language (more specifically a Ugric language) unrelated to most other languages in Europe. Lithuanian ( lietuvių kalba) is the official state language of Lithuania and is recognised as one of the official languages of the European Union. Russian ( transliteration:,) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages Ukrainian (in Ukrainian украї́нська мо́ва ukrayins'ka mova,) is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. Standard Mandarin, also known as Standard Spoken Chinese, is the official modern Chinese spoken language used in mainland China and Taiwan Pinyin, more formally Hanyu pinyin, is the most common Standard Mandarin Romanization system in use The Mongolian language (mn [[ImageMonggol kelesvg 17px]] Mongɣol kele, Cyrillic: Монгол хэл Mongol khel) is the best-known member of ISO 8601 is an International standard for date and Time representations issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO Swahili (called Kiswahili in the language itself is the First language of the Swahili people (Waswahili who inhabit several large stretches Ecclesiastical Latin (sometimes called Church Latin) is the Latin dialect as used in documents of the Roman Catholic Church and in its Latin liturgies The Goidelic languages, (also sometimes called particularly in colloquial situations the Gaelic languages or collectively Gaelic) historically formed a Dialect
  2. The Romance languages, Old High German and German, and the Slavic languages have words for Saturday that are derived from the Hebrew Sabbath, via late Greek Sabbaton. German also has a second, Christianised name meaning "Eve of Sunday" (parallel to "Christmas Eve", for example).
  3. German and Finnish call Wednesday, prosaically, "mid-week"; Estonian Kesknädal is equivalent, with "Third day" (kolmapäev) also used; Icelandic and Faroese uses "Mid-week day"; Polish, Russian, etc. have "Middle".
  4. Old Norse, Swedish (and other North Germanic languages), and Finnish and Estonian (Finnic languages) call Saturday "Washday" or "Bathday", as it was the traditional day for washing and bathing. The North Germanic languages or Scandinavian languages make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages, a sub-family of the Indo-European languages
  5. The Japanese names are the same as the traditional way days of week were named in Chinese. The Korean names are also the same but written in Hangul.
  6. Icelandic sunnudagur and mánudagur are astronomical, persisting presumably because they make no explicit reference to pagan gods.
  7. See Lithuanian calendar. The Lithuanian calendar is unusual among Western countries in that neither the names of the months nor the names of the weekdays are derived from Greek or Norse mythology
  8. An alternative naming for Saturday, used in the northern parts of Germany and the Netherlands, is derived from Sun-eve, the day before the day of the sun. Northern dialects of German use Sonnabend. In Frisian Sneon (sinnejûn) is used.

Astrology

Between the 1st and 3rd centuries the Roman Empire gradually replaced the eight day Roman nundinal cycle with the seven-day week. The Roman Empire was the post-Republican phase of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial The Roman calendar changed its form several times in the time between the foundation of Rome and the fall of the Roman Empire. The astrological order of the days was explained by Vettius Valens and Dio Cassius (and Chaucer gave the same explanation in his Treatise on the Astrolabe). Vettius Valens (February 8 120 - c 175 CE was a second-century Hellenistic astrologer, a somewhat younger contemporary of Claudius Ptolemy. Lucius Cassius Dio Cocceianus ( Greek:) (c 155 or 163/164 to after 229 known in English as Cassius Dio, Dio Cassius, or Dio was Geoffrey Chaucer (c 1343 – 25 October 1400? was an English author poet Philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and Diplomat. A Treatise on the Astrolabe is a Medieval Essay on the Astrolabe by Geoffrey Chaucer. According to these authors, it was a principle of astrology that the heavenly bodies presided, in succession, over the hours of the day. The Ptolemaic system asserts that the order of the heavenly bodies, from the farthest to the closest to the Earth, is: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon. In Astronomy, the geocentric model of the Universe is the superseded theory that the Earth is the center of the universe and other The Sun (Sol is the Star at the center of the Solar System. The VENUS ( V ictoria E xperimental N etwork U nder the S ea project is a cabled sea floor observatory operated by the University (This order was first established by the Greek Stoics. Stoicism, a school of Hellenistic philosophy, was founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in the early third century BC )

In astrological theory, not only the days of the week, but the hours of the day are dominated by the seven luminaries. If the first hour of a day is dominated by Saturn (Saturn), then the second hour is dominated by Jupiter (Jupiter), the third by Mars (Mars), and so on, so that the sequence of planets repeats every seven hours. Therefore, the twenty-fifth hour, which is the first hour of the following day, is dominated by the Sun; the forty-ninth hour, which is the first hour of the next day, by the Moon. Thus, if a day is labelled by the planet which dominates its first hour, then Saturn's day is followed by the Sun's day, which is followed by the Moon's day, and so forth, as shown below.

According to Vettius Valens, the first hour of the day began at sunset, which follows Greek and Babylonian convention. He also states that the light and dark halves of the day were presided over by the heavenly bodies of the first hour of each half. This is confirmed by a Pompeian graffito which calls 6 February 60 a Sunday, even though by modern reckoning it is a Wednesday. Events 46 BC - Julius Caesar defeats the combined army of Pompeian followers and Numidians under Metellus Scipio Year 60 was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Julian calendar. Thus this graffito used the daylight naming convention of Valens whereas the nighttime naming convention of Valens agrees with the modern astrological reckoning, which names the day after the ruler of the first daylight hour.

These two overlapping weeks continued to be used by Alexandrian Christians during the fourth century, but the days in both were simply numbered 1–7. Alexandria ( Egyptian Arabic: اسكندريه Eskendereyya; Standard Arabic: ar الإسكندرية Al-Iskandariyya; Ἀλεξάνδρεια As a means of recording the passage of Time, the 4th century (per the Julian calendar and Anno Domini / Common era) was that Century Although names of gods were not used, the week beginning on Wednesday was named in Greek ton theon ([day] of the gods), as used by the late fourth-century editor of the Easter letters of Bishop Athanasius, and in a table of Easter dates for 311–369 that survives in an Ethiopic copy. Greek (el ελληνική γλώσσα or simply el ελληνικά — "Hellenic" is an Indo-European language, spoken today by 15-22 million people mainly Easter ( Greek: Πάσχα Pascha or Pasxa) is the most important religious feast in the Christian Liturgical year. Ge'ez (ግዕዝ, ɡɨʕɨz also transliterated Gi'iz, and referred to as Ethiopic) is an ancient South Semitic Language These overlapping weeks are still used in the Ethiopic computus. Computus ( Latin for Computation) is the Calculation of the date of Easter in the Christian calendar. Each of the days of the week beginning on Sunday is called a "Day of John" whereas each of the days of the week beginning on Wednesday is called a "tentyon", a simple transcription of the Greek ton theon.

Hour: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Luminary → name
Day 1 Saturn Jupiter Mars Sun Venus Mercury Moon Saturn Jupiter Mars Sun Venus Mercury Moon Saturn Jupiter Mars Sun Venus Mercury Moon Saturn Jupiter Mars Saturn → Saturday
Day 2 Sun Venus Mercury Moon Saturn Jupiter Mars Sun Venus Mercury Moon Saturn Jupiter Mars Sun Venus Mercury Moon Saturn Jupiter Mars Sun Venus Mercury Sun → Sunday
Day 3 Moon Saturn Jupiter Mars Sun Venus Mercury Moon Saturn Jupiter Mars Sun Venus Mercury Moon Saturn Jupiter Mars Sun Venus Mercury Moon Saturn Jupiter Moon → Monday
Day 4 Mars Sun Venus Mercury Moon Saturn Jupiter Mars Sun Venus Mercury Moon Saturn Jupiter Mars Sun Venus Mercury Moon Saturn Jupiter Mars Sun Venus Mars → Tuesday
Day 5 Mercury Moon Saturn Jupiter Mars Sun Venus Mercury Moon Saturn Jupiter Mars Sun Venus Mercury Moon Saturn Jupiter Mars Sun Venus Mercury Moon Saturn Mercury → Wednesday
Day 6 Jupiter Mars Sun Venus Mercury Moon Saturn Jupiter Mars Sun Venus Mercury Moon Saturn Jupiter Mars Sun Venus Mercury Moon Saturn Jupiter Mars Sun Jupiter → Thursday
Day 7 Venus Mercury Moon Saturn Jupiter Mars Sun Venus Mercury Moon Saturn Jupiter Mars Sun Venus Mercury Moon Saturn Jupiter Mars Sun Venus Mercury Moon Venus → Friday
Weekday heptagram
Weekday heptagram

The same order can be derived "geometrically" from an acute heptagram, the {7/3} star polygon (as 24 mod 7 = 3). A heptagram or septegram is a seven-pointed star drawn with seven straight strokes Regular star polygons In Geometry, a regular star polygon is a self-intersecting equilateral equiangular Polygon, created by connecting one In Mathematics, modular arithmetic (sometimes called modulo arithmetic, or clock arithmetic) is a system of Arithmetic for Integers The luminaries are arranged in the same Ptolemaic/Stoic order around the points of the heptagram. Tracing the unicursal line from one planet to the next gives the order of the weekdays.

According to some sources, the weekday heptagram is considerably old:

It was with the adoption and widespread use of the seven-day week throughout the Hellenistic world of mixed cultures that this heptagram was created. [6]

See also

References

  1. ^ The Nine Planets: Planetary Linguistics: Days of the Week
  2. ^ United Kingdom House of Lords Decisions
  3. ^ MacBain, Alexander. An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language. Gairm Publications, 1982 reprint of 1896 original.
  4. ^ MacBain, Alexander. An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language. Gairm Publications, 1982 reprint of 1896 original.
  5. ^ Swahili days, months, dates
  6. ^ Symbol 29:16

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