Names of the days 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 seven heavenly bodies which were in turn named after contemporary Hellenistic deities. This system was introduced by the Babylonians and later adopted by the Sumerians. The Roman Empire adopted the system during late antiquity. In some other languages, the days are named after corresponding deities of the regional culture. The seven-day week was adopted in early Christianity from the Hebrew calendar, and gradually replaced the Roman internundinum. Eight-day and seven-day weeks existed side-by-side until Emperor Constantine made the seven-day week official in AD 321; thereafter, the seven-day week spread throughout the Roman Empire and eventually through Christian cultures around the world.
The history of the seven-day week can be traced to ancient civilizations. 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. Most historians agree the seven-day week dates back to Babylonians who started using it about 4,000 years ago. The number 7 was sacred to the Babylonians. Emperor Constantine of the Roman Empire made the Day of the Sun a legal holiday centuries later.
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

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 of the year 60 CE as dies solis. 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?" The treatise is lost, but the answer to the question is known; see planetary hours.
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.
The days were named after the classical planets of Hellenistic astrology, in the order: Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn.
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.
The Greek and Latin names are as follows:
DaySunday
Sun		Monday
Moon		Tuesday
Mars		Wednesday
Mercury		Thursday
Jupiter		Friday
Venus		Saturday
Saturn
Greek
Latin

Romance languages

Except for in Portuguese and Mirandese, the Romance languages preserved the Latin names, except for the names of Sunday, which was replaced by Dominicus , 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. Meanwhile, Galician occasionally uses them alongside the traditional Latin-derived names, albeit to a lesser extent.
Day
''		Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Aragonese
Aranese Occitandimengedelunsdimarsdimèrclesdijausdiuendresdissabte
Asturiandomingullunesmartesmiércolesxuevesvienressábadu
Catalandiumengedillunsdimartsdimecresdijousdivendresdissabte
Corsicandumenicalunimartighjovivennari
Frenchdimanchelundimardimercredijeudivendredisamedi
Friuliandomenielunismartarsjoibevinars
Galiciandomingosábado
Italiandomenicalunedìmartedìmercoledìgiovedìvenerdìsabato
Ladin
Ladin sabeda
Liguriandoménegalunedìmartedìmèrcoledìzéuggiavenerdìsàbbo
Lombard duminicalunedémartedémercoldégioedévenerdésabot
Lombard domenegalunedìmartedìmercoldìgiovedìvenerdìsabet
Neapolitanlunnerìmarterìmiercurìgioverìviernarìsàbbatu
Occitandimengedilunsdimarsdimècresdijòusdivendresdissabte
Portuguesedomingosegunda-feiraterça-feiraquarta-feiraquinta-feirasexta-feirasábado
Romanianlunimarțimiercurijoivinerisâmbătă
Romansh dumengialündeschdimardimarculdigövgiavenderdisanda
Romansh dumengiaglindesdimardimesemnagievgiavenderdisonda
Romansh dumengiaglindasdemardemesemdagievgiavendardesonda
Romansh dumengiagliendisdismardismesjamnagievgiavenderdissonda
Romansh dumeingiagliendasgismargismeaseandagievgiavendergissonda
Romansh dumengialündeschdimardimarcurdigövgiavenderdisonda
Sardinian etc.lunis etc. etc. etc. etc.
Sicilian
Spanishdomingolunesmartesmiércolesjuevesviernessábado
Venetiandomenegalunimartimèrcoreziobasabo

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
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
IrishDomhnachLuanMáirtCéadaoinDéardaoinAoineSatharn
ManxJecrean
Old Irishdiu lunadiu martdiu iathdiu eathamondiu triachdiu saturn
Old Irish
Scottish GaelicDiluainDimàirtDiciadainDiardaoinDihaoineDisathairne

In Welsh, the word for ‘day’ dydd is replaced by the words for ‘morning' bore, ’night’ nos or ‘afternoon’ prynhawn, etc to say ‘Monday morning’ bore Llun, or ‘Friday night’ nos Wener, etc. It is never *nos dydd Llun or *bore dydd Llun which are ungrammatical.
DaySunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Breton
Cornishdy'Suldy'Lundy'Meurthdy'Mergherdy'Yowdy'Gwenerdy'Sadorn
Welshdydd Suldydd Llundydd Mawrthdydd Mercherdydd Iaudydd Gwenerdydd Sadwrn

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.
DaySunday
Dielli 		Monday
Hëna 		Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Enji 		Friday
Prende		Saturday
Albaniane diele hënëe martëe mërkurëe enjtee premtee shtunë

Adoptions from Romance

Other languages adopted the week together with the Latin names for the days of the week in the colonial period. Several constructed languages also adopted the Latin terminology.
Day
'		Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
ApI Interlinguasol-dieluna-diemarte-diemercurio-diejove-dievenere-die
Idiom Neutralsoldilundimarsdimerkurdiyovdivendrdisaturndi
Idosundiolundiomardiomerkurdiojovdiovenerdiosaturdio
INTALsundilundimardimerkurdijodivenerdisaturdi
Interlinguesoledílunedímardímercurdíjovedívenerdísaturdí
Lingua Franca Novasoldilundimartedimercurdijovedivenerdisaturdi
Mondialsoldilundimardimierdijodivendisamdi
Novialsundielundiemardiejodievenerdiesaturdie
Reform-Neutralsoldílundímarsdímercurdíjovdívendredísaturndí
UropiSoldiaLundiaMardiaMididiaZusdiaWendiaSabadia

Day
'		Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
ChamorroDamenggoLunesMåttesMetkolesHuebesBetnesSåbalu
Esperantodimanĉolundomardomerkredoĵaŭdovendredosabato
FilipinoLunesBiyernesSabado
Interlinguadominicalunedimartedimercuridijovedivenerdisabbato
MāoriRātapu Rāhina Rātū Rāapa Rāpare Rāmere Rāhoroi
NeoLundoTudMirkoJovVensoSab
RomániçoDomínicoLun-dioMarti-dioMercurii-dioJov-dioVéner-dioSábato
Universalglotdiodailundaimardaierdaijovdaivendaisamdai

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

Germanic tradition

The Germanic peoples adapted the system introduced by the Romans by substituting the Germanic deities for the Roman ones in a process known as interpretatio germanica.
The date of the introduction of this system is not known exactly, but it must have happened later than 100 AD but before the introduction of Christianity during the 6th to 7th centuries, i.e., during the final phase or soon after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. This period is later than the Common Germanic stage, but still during the phase of undifferentiated West Germanic. The names of the days of the week in North Germanic languages were not calqued from Latin directly, but taken from the West Germanic names.Sunday: Old English Sunnandæg, meaning "sun's day". This is a translation of the Latin phrase diēs Sōlis. English, like most of the Germanic languages, preserves the day's association with the sun. Many other European languages, including all of the Romance languages, have changed its name to the equivalent of "the Lord's day". In both West Germanic and North Germanic mythology, the Sun is personified as Sunna/Sól.Monday: Old English Mōnandæg, meaning "Moon's day". This is equivalent to the Latin name diēs Lūnae. In North Germanic mythology, the Moon is personified as Máni.Tuesday: Old English Tīwesdæg, meaning "Tiw's day". Tiw was a one-handed god associated with single combat and pledges in Norse mythology and also attested prominently in wider Germanic paganism. The name of the day is also related to the Latin name diēs Mārtis, "Day of Mars".Wednesday: Old English Wōdnesdæg meaning the day of the Germanic god Woden, and a prominent god of the Anglo-Saxons in England until about the seventh century. This corresponds to the Latin counterpart diēs Mercuriī, "Day of Mercury", as both are deities of magic and knowledge. Importantly, both are also psychopomps, carrying the souls of the dead to the afterlife. The German Mittwoch, the Low German Middeweek, the miðviku- in Icelandic miðvikudagur and the Finnish keskiviikko all mean "mid-week".Thursday: Old English Þūnresdæg, meaning 'Þunor's day'. Þunor means thunder or its personification, the Norse god known in Modern English as Thor. Similarly Dutch donderdag, German Donnerstag, Finnish torstai, and Scandinavian torsdag. "Thor's day" corresponds to Latin diēs Iovis, "day of Jupiter".Friday: Old English Frīgedæg, meaning the day of the Anglo-Saxon goddess Frigg. The Norse name for the planet Venus was Friggjarstjarna, 'Frigg's star'. It is based on the Latin diēs Veneris, "Day of Venus".Saturday: named after the Roman god Saturn associated with the Titan Cronus, father of Zeus and many Olympians. Its original Anglo-Saxon rendering was Sæturnesdæg. In Latin, it was diēs Sāturnī, "Day of Saturn". The Nordic laugardagur, leygardagur, laurdag, etc. deviate significantly as they have no reference to either the Norse or the Roman pantheon; they derive from Old Nordic laugardagr, literally "washing-day". The German Sonnabend and the Low German Sünnavend mean "Sunday Eve"; the German word Samstag derives from the name for Shabbat.
Day
'		Sunday
Sól 		Monday
Tuesday
Týr		Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
AfrikaansSondagMaandagDinsdagWoensdagDonderdagVrydagSaterdag
Dutchzondagmaandagdinsdagwoensdagdonderdagvrijdagzaterdag
Old Englishsunnandæġmōnandæġtīwesdæġwōdnesdægþunresdæġfrīġedæġsæternesdæġ
Old Saxonsunnundag*mānundag*Wōdanesdag*thunaresdagfrīadag
ScotsMonandayTysdayWadensdayFuirsdayFridaySeturday
West Frisiansneinmoandeitiisdeiwoansdeitongersdeifreed

Day
'		Sunday
Monday
Máni		Tuesday
Týr		Wednesday
Odin		Thursday
Thor		Friday
Frigg		Saturday
Danishsøndagmandagtirsdagonsdagtorsdagfredaglørdag
Elfdaliansunndagmondagtisdagųosdagtųosdagfrjådaglovdag
Faroesesunnudagurmánadagurtýsdagurfríggjadagurleygardagur
Icelandicsunnudagurmánudagurþriðjudagurmiðvikudagurfimmtudagurföstudagurlaugardagur
Norwegian søndagmandagtirsdagonsdagtorsdagfredaglørdag
Norwegian måndagtysdagonsdagtorsdagfredaglaurdag
Old Norsesunnudagrtýsdagróðinsdagrþórsdagrfrjádagr
Swedishsöndagmåndagtisdagonsdagtorsdagfredaglördag

Day
Sunday
Sól 		Monday
Máni		Tuesday
Týr		Wednesday
Odin		Thursday
Thor		Friday
Frigg		Saturday
Sunday eve
GermanSonntagMontagDonnerstagFreitag
Low GermanSünndagMaandagDingsdagDünnerdagFreedag
LuxembourgishSonndegMéindegDënschdegMëttwochDonneschdegFreidegSamschdeg
Middle Low GermanSunnedagManedagDingesdagWodenesdagDonersdagVrīdag
North Frisian söndaimundaiteisdaifreidai
North Frisian sondiimööndiitaisdiimaaderwichtonersdiifraidiisoneene
North Frisian SendaiMundaiTaisdaiMeddeweekenTünnersdaiFraidaiSenin
North Frisian sandäimoundäitönersdäifräidäisaneene
North Frisian saandimounditäisdiweensditörsdifraidisaneene
North Frisian tünersdifraidisaneene
North Frisian SendaiMondaiTiisdaiWinjsdaiTürsdaiFriidai
North Frisian sändäiwjinsdäifraidäi
Old High Germansunnūntagmânetagziestagwuotanestagdonarestag
Saterland FrisianSundaiMoundaiTäisdaiMiddewíekTuunsdaiFräindai
Yiddish

Adoptions from Germanic

Sami languages have weekday names influenced from neighboring languages, with a majority of weekday names being from Germanic-Norse origin.
Day
'		Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Thor		Friday
Frigg		Saturday
Finnishsunnuntaimaanantaitiistaikeskiviikkotorstaiperjantailauantai
Kvenmaanantaitiistaikeskiviikkotuorestaiperjantailauvantai
Meänkielimaanantaitiistaikeskiviikkotuorestaiperjantai
South Samiaejlegemåantadæjstagaskevåhkoeduarstabearjadahke
Ume Samiájliegemánnuodahkkadïjstahkkagasskavahkkuoduarastahkkalávvuodahkka
Pite Samiájlekmánnodakdijstakgasskavahkoduorasdakbärrjedaklávvodak
Lule Samimánnodahkadijstahkagasskavahkkoduorastahkabierjjedahkalávvodahka
North Samisotnabeaivigaskavahkkuduorastatbearjadat
Inari Samipasepeivivuossargâmajebargâkoskokkovástuppeivi
Skolt Sami pâʹsspeiʹvvvuõssarggmââibarggseäradneljdpeiʹvvsueʹvet

Day
'		SundayMondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFridaySaturday
Māoriwiki / RātapuMane / RāhinaTūrei / RātūWenerei / RāapaTāite / RāpareParaire / RāmereHāterei / Rāhoroi
Tok PisinSandeMandeTundeTrindeFondeFraideSarere
Volapüksudelmudeltudelvedeldödelfridelzädel

Hindu tradition

Hindu astrology uses the concept of days under the regency of a planet 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 ; guru is here a title of Bṛhaspati, and hence of Jupiter; budha "Mercury" is regarded as a son of Soma, that is, the Moon. Knowledge of Greek astrology existed since about the 2nd century BC, but references to the vāsara occur somewhat later, during the Gupta period, that is, at roughly the same period or before the system was introduced in the Roman Empire.

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 ; guru is here a title of Bṛhaspati, and hence of Jupiter; budha "Mercury" is regarded as a son of Soma, that is, the Moon.
Sunday
the Sun
Monday
the Moon
Tuesday
Mars
Wednesday
Mercury
Thursday
Jupiter
Friday
Venus
Saturday
Saturn
Burmeseတနင်္ဂနွေ

တနင်္လာ

အင်္ဂါ

ဗုဒ္ဓဟူး



ရာဟု
Rahu		ကြာသာပတေး

သောကြာ

စနေ

Monတ္ၚဲ အဒိုတ်

from Sans. āditya		တ္ၚဲ စန်

from Sans. candra		တ္ၚဲ အၚါ

from Sans. aṅgāra		တ္ၚဲ ဗုဒ္ဓဝါ

from Sans. budhavāra		တ္ၚဲ ဗြဴဗ္တိ

from Sans. bṛhaspati		တ္ၚဲ သိုက်.

from Sans. śukra		တ္ၚဲ သ္ၚိ သဝ်

from Sans. śani
Khmerថ្ងៃអាទិត្យ
ថ្ងៃចន្ទ
ថ្ងៃអង្គារ
ថ្ងៃពុធ
ថ្ងៃព្រហស្បត្ណិ
ថ្ងៃសុក្រ
ថ្ងៃសៅរ៍
Laoວັນອາທິດ
ວັນຈັນ
ວັນອັງຄານ
ວັນພຸດ
ວັນພະຫັດ
ວັນສຸກ
ວັນເສົາ
ChamAditThômAngarButjipSukThanưchăn
Shanဝၼ်းဢႃတိတ်ႉ
ဝၼ်းၸၼ်
ဝၼ်းဢင်းၵၼ်း
ဝၼ်းၽုတ်ႉ
ဝၼ်းၽတ်း
ဝၼ်းသုၵ်း
ဝၼ်းသဝ်
Thaiวันอาทิตย์
วันจันทร์
วันอังคาร
วันพุธ
วันพฤหัสบดี
วันศุกร์
วันเสาร์
Javaneseꦫꦢꦶꦠꦾ
ꦱꦺꦴꦩ
ꦲꦁꦒꦫ
ꦧꦸꦢ
ꦉꦱ꧀ꦥꦠꦶ
ꦱꦸꦏꦿ
ꦠꦸꦩ꧀ꦥꦼꦏ꧀
Balineseᬋᬤᬶᬢᬾ
ᬲᭀᬫ
ᬳᬂᬕᬭ
ᬩᬸᬤ
ᬯᬺᬲ᭄ᬧᬢᬶ
ᬲᬸᬓ᭄ᬭ
ᬲᬦᬶᬲ᭄ᬘᬭ
Sundaneseᮛᮓᮤᮒᮦ
ᮞᮧᮙ
ᮃᮀᮌᮛ
ᮘᮥᮓ
ᮛᮨᮞ᮪ᮕᮒᮤ
ᮞᮥᮊᮢ
ᮒᮥᮙ᮪ᮕᮨᮊ᮪
Toba BatakArtiaSumaAnggaraMudaBoraspatiSingkoraSamisara
Angkola-Mandailing BatakAritaSumaAnggaraMudaBoraspatiSikkoraSamisara
Simalungun BatakAditiaSumaAnggaraMudahaBoraspatiSihoraSamisara
Karo BatakAditiaSumaNggaraBudahaBeraspatiCukraBelah Naik
Pakpak Batak

Northeast Asian languages

Sunday
the Sun
Monday
the Moon
Tuesday
Mars
Wednesday
Mercury
Thursday
Jupiter
Friday
Venus
Saturday
Saturn
Mongolian
Kalmyk

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", 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.
The 4th-century AD date, according to the Cihai encyclopedia, is due to a reference to Fan Ning, an astrologer of the Jin dynasty. The renewed adoption from Manichaeans in the 8th century AD 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 until its promotion to a full-fledged 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.
SundayMondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFridaySaturday
Celestial ObjectSun
First Star – Yang 		Moon
Second Star – Yin 		Mars
Third Star – Fire 		Mercury
Fourth Star – Water 		Jupiter
Fifth Star – Wood 		Venus
Sixth Star – Metal or Gold 		Saturn
Seventh Star – Earth or Soil
Classical Chinese日曜日, 月曜日, 火曜日, 水曜日, 木曜日, 金曜日, 土曜日,
Japanese
Korean일요일, 日曜日, 월요일, 月曜日, 화요일, 火曜日, 수요일, 水曜日, 목요일, 木曜日, 금요일, 金曜日, 토요일, 土曜日,
Mongolianнаран өдөр, саран өдөр, гал өдөр, усан өдөр, модон өдөр, шороон өдөр,
Mongolian
ням, даваа, мягмар, лхагва, пүрэв, баасан, бямба,
Tibetanགཟའ་ཉི་མ།,, གཟའ་ཟླ་བ།,, གཟའ་མིག་དམར།,, གཟའ་ལྷག་པ།,, གཟའ་ཕུར་བུ།,, གཟའ་པ་སངས།,, གཟའ་སྤེན་པ།,,

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 adopted numbering but took Monday rather than Sunday as the "first day". This convention is also found in some Austronesian languages whose speakers were converted to Christianity by European missionaries.
In Slavic languages, some of the names correspond to numerals after Sunday: compare Russian vtornik "Tuesday" and vtoroj "the second", chetverg "Thursday" and chetvjortyj "the fourth", pyatnitsa "Friday" and pyatyj "the fifth"; see also the notes regarding irregularities.
Day
Number From One		Monday
Day One		Tuesday
Day Two		Wednesday
Day Three		Thursday
Day Four		Friday
Day Five		Saturday
Day Six		Sunday
Day Seven
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Russian
Belarusian
Ukrainian
Lemko Rusyn
Prešov Rusyn
Pannonian Rusyn
Slovak
Czech
Upper Sorbian
Lower Sorbian
Polish
Kashubian
Slovene
Burgenland Croatian
Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian
Macedonian
Bulgarian
Interslavic
Lithuanian
Latvian
Hungarian
Estonian
Võro
Mongolian
Southern Luo
Hawaiian
Apma
Sonaenyodidoyoditinyodicayodipenyodixiodizunyodi
Yakut

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, Laboraro, Labone, Labotlhano. Sunday became known as the day of going to church when the iron bell rings, thus Latshipi.
In Standard Chinese, the week is referred to as the "Stellar Period" or "Cycle".
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, "day" or "Sun", is used instead of a number. A slightly informal and colloquial variant to 日 is 天 "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", 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
一,, 'one'		Tuesday
二,, 'two'		Wednesday
三,, 'three'		Thursday
四,, 'four'		Friday
五,, 'five'		Saturday
六,, 'six'		Sunday
日,, 'day' or 天,, 'sky'
Standard Modern Chinese

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 is when God rested from six-day Creation, making the day following the Sabbath the first day of the week. 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, 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 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, 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. 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
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Icelandicsunnudagurmánudagurþriðjudagurmiðvikudagur fimmtudagurföstudagur laugardagur
Hebrew:wikt:יום ראשון
:wikt:יום שני
:wikt:יום שלישי
:wikt:יום רביעי
:wikt:יום חמישי
:wikt:יום שישי
:wikt:שבת
Ecclesiastical LatinDominicaferia secundaferia tertiaferia quartaferia quintaferia sextasabbatum
Portuguesedomingo segunda-feiraterça-feiraquarta-feiraquinta-feirasexta-feirasábado
Galiciandomingo segunda feiraterza feira terceira feiracorta feira quarta feiraquinta feirasexta feirasábado
Mirandesedemingo segunda-feiraterça-feiraquarta-feiraquinta-feirasesta-feirasábado
Tetumloron-dominguloron-segundaloron-tersaloron-kuartaloron-kintaloron-sestaloron-sábadu
GreekΚυριακή
Δευτέρα
Τρίτη
Τετάρτη
Πέμπτη
Παρασκευή
Σάββατο
Georgianკვირა
ორშაბათი
სამშაბათი
ოთხშაბათი
ხუთშაბათი
პარასკევი
შაბათი
Western ArmenianԿիրակի
Երկուշաբթի
Երեքշաբթի
Չորեքշաբթի
Հինգշաբթի
Ուրբաթ
Շաբաթ
Eastern Armenianկիրակի
երկուշաբթի
երեքշաբթի
չորեքշաբթի
հինգշաբթի
ուրբաթ
շաբաթ
Vietnamesechủ nhật/chúa nhật thứ haithứ bathứ tưthứ nămthứ sáuthứ bảy
Somali????
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??????
??????
?????
?????
?????
Amharicእሑድ
ሰኞ
ማክሰኞ
ረቡዕ,
ሮብ 		ሐሙስ
ዓርብ
ቅዳሜ
Arabicالأَحَد
الإثنين
الثُّلَاثاء
الأَرْبعاء
الخَمِيسُ
الجُمُعَة

السَّبْت
Malteseil-Ħaddit-Tnejnit-Tlietal-Erbgħail-Ħamisil-Ġimgħa is-Sibt
Malay
Ahad or Minggu Isnin or SeninSelasaRabuKamisJumat Sabtu
JavaneseNgahad, Ngakad, Minggu SenènSelasaReboKemisJemuwah Setu
SundaneseMinggu / Minggon SenénSalasaReboKemisJumaah Saptu
Persianیکشنبه
دوشنبه
سه‌شنبه
چهارشنبه
پنجشنبه
آدینه or جمعه
or 		شنبه
KazakhЖексенбі JeksenbıДүйсенбі DüisenbıСейсенбі SeisenbıСәрсенбі SärsenbıБейсенбі BeisenbıЖұма JūmaСенбі Senbı
KarakalpakEkshembi yekşembıDúyshembi düişembıSiyshembi sişembıSárshembi särşembıPiyshembi pişembıJumа jūmaShembі şembı
TatarЯкшәмбе yakşämbeДүшәмбе düşämbeСишәмбе sişämbeЧәршәмбе çärşämbeПәнҗешәмбе pänceşämbeҖомга comgaШимбә şimbä
Khowar






KurdishYekşemDuşemSêşemÇarşemPêncşemÎnŞemî
Uyghur
Old Turkicbirinç künikinç künüçünç küntörtinç künbeşinç künaltınç künyetinç kün
TurkishPazarPazartesiSalıÇarşambaPerşembeCumaCumartesi
AzerbaijaniBazarBazar ertəsiÇərşənbə axşamıÇərşənbəCümə axşamıCüməŞənbə
UzbekYakshanbaDushanbaSeshanbaChorshanbaPayshanbaJumaShanba
Navajo

Days numbered from Saturday

In Swahili, the day begins at sunrise, unlike in the Arabic and Hebrew calendars where the day starts at sunset, and unlike in the Western world where the day starts at midnight. 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". The word for Friday, Ijumaa, is also Arabic and means "gathering" for the Friday noon prayers in Islam.
DaySaturday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
SwahiliJumamosiJumapiliJumatatuJumanneJumatanoAlhamisiIjumaa

Mixing of numbering and astronomy

In the Žejane dialect of Istro-Romanian, lur and virer follow the Latin convention, while utorek, sredu, and četrtok follow the Slavic convention.
DayMonday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Istro-Romanian lurutoreksredučetrtokvirersimbotadumireca

There are several systems in the different Basque dialects.
DayMonday
Tuesday
Wednesday
ThursdayFridaySaturdaySunday
Basque astelehenastearteasteazkenostegunostiraligande

DayMondayTuesday
Wednesday
ThursdayFriday
Saturday
Sunday
Basque martitzenaeguaztenaeguenazapatuadomeka

In Judaeo-Spanish, 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, 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.
DaySunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Judaeo-Spanish lunesmartesviernesshabat

Other naming systems

The days of the week in Meitei originated from the Sanamahi creation myth of Meitei mythology. The Udmurt days of the week derive from their connection to traditional calendar rites. The days of the week in Yoruba derive from Yoruba religion and superstitions.
DaySundayMondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFridaySaturday
Meitei ꯅꯣꯡꯃꯥꯏꯖꯤꯡ

ꯅꯤꯡꯊꯧꯀꯥꯕ

ꯂꯩꯄꯥꯛꯄꯣꯛꯄ

ꯌꯨꯝꯁꯀꯩꯁ

ꯁꯒꯣꯜꯁꯦꯟ

ꯏꯔꯥꯢ

ꯊꯥꯡꯖ

Udmurtарнянунал

вордӥськон

пуксён

вирнунал

покчиарня

удмуртарня

кӧснунал

YorubaỌjọ-Aiku
Ọjọ-Aje
Ọjọ-Iṣẹgun
Ọjọru
Ọjọbọ
Ọjọ-Ẹti
Ọjọ-Abamẹta

Etymological [|irregularities]

Sunday

Lord's Day – From Latin Dominicus or Greek Κυριακή
Holy Day and First-Day of the Week
Resurrection
Bazaar Day
Market Day
No Work
Full good day
Borrowed from English week
From an Old Burmese word, not of Indic origin.
Prayer day

Monday

After No Work
After Bazaar
Head of Week
Master
From an Old Burmese word, not of Indic origin.
First day of the week

Tuesday

Thing, of which god Tyr/Ziu was the patron.
Second day of the week
Third day of the week.
From Arabic 'third day'
From Proto-Slavic 'second'

Wednesday

Mid-week or Middle
The First Fast
Third day of the week

Thursday

The day between two fasts
Five
Fifth day of the week.
Fourth day of the week.

Friday

The Fast or Fasting Day
Good Friday or Preparation
Jumu'ah
Gathering/Assembly/Meeting – in Malta with no Islamic connotations
Fifth day of the week
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

Shabbat
Wash or Bath day
Sun-eve
After the Gathering
End of the Week
Week
Half good day
Half day