weekday
English dictionary entry
Meanings
noun
- Any individual day of the week, except those which form the weekend or the single weekly day off; that is:
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, but not Saturday or Sunday.
- Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, but not Friday.
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday, but not Sunday. (e.g. in Vietnam)
- Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, but not Saturday.
- Any day of the week (Monday through Sunday).
Pronunciation
/ˈwiːkdeɪ̯/
[ˈwɪi̯kdeɪ̯]
en-us-weekday.ogg
/ˈwiːkdæ̝ɪ̯/
[ˈwɪi̯kdæ̝ɪ̯]
Word forms
weekday
weekdays
week-day
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English wykeday, from Old English wicdæġ. By surface analysis, compound of week + day. Compare West Frisian wikedei (“weekday”), Dutch weekdag (“weekday”), German Wochentag (“weekday”), Danish ugedag (“weekday”), Swedish veckodag (“weekday”), Norwegian ukedag (“weekday”).
Translations
Arabic: يَوْم عَمَل
Armenian: աշխատանքային օր
Basque: astegun
Belarusian: бу́дні дзень
Belarusian: працо́ўны дзень
Bulgarian: де́лничен ден
Catalan: dia feiner
Catalan: dia laborable
Chinese Mandarin: 平日
Chinese Mandarin: 平常日
Czech: všední den
Czech: pracovní den
Danish: hverdag
Danish: arbejdsdag
Danish: almindelig ugedag
Dutch: werkdag
Dutch: weekdag
Erzya: такойчи
Esperanto: labortago
Esperanto: semajntago
Estonian: nädalapäev
Finnish: arkipäivä
French: jour de la semaine
French: jour ouvré
Galician: día solto
German: Wochentag
German: Werktag
German: Arbeitstag
Greek: καθημερινή
Hawaiian: lā noa
Hebrew: יום חול
Hebrew: יוֹם חֹל
Hindi: वार
Hindi: कार्यदिवस
Hungarian: hétköznap
Hungarian: munkanap
Icelandic: vikudagur
Indonesian: hari biasa
Ingrian: arkipäivä
Irish: lá den tseachtain
Italian: giorno feriale
Japanese: 平日
Japanese: ウィークデー
Japanese: 週日
Kashmiri: وار
Korean: 평일
Korean: 주중
Latin: feria
Latvian: darba dienā
Lithuanian: darbo diena
Luxembourgish: Wochendag
Macedonian: делник
Norwegian Bokmål: hverdag
Norwegian Bokmål: virkedag
Norwegian Bokmål: arbeidsdag
Norwegian Nynorsk: kvardag
Norwegian Nynorsk: vyrkedag
Norwegian Nynorsk: yrkedag
Ojibwe: anokii-giizhigad
Old English: wicdæġ
Iranian Persian: روزِ کاری
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