English
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English weke-day, 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”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈwiːkdeɪ/
- Rhymes: -iːkdeɪ
Noun
weekday (plural weekdays)
- 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.
2019 October, Tony Miles, Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, in Modern Railways, page 58:The Nottingham to Skegness route and Robin Hood line from Nottingham to Mansfield and Worksop will continue with their current weekday patterns; linked to the latter is EMR's commitment to carry out a feasibility study into operating Robin Hood trains to Ollerton.
- (Islam) Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, but not Friday.
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday, but not Sunday. (e.g. in Vietnam)
- (Judaism) Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, but not Saturday.
- (now rare) Any day of the week (Monday through Sunday).
Synonyms
Translations
day of the week, excluding weekends
- Arabic: يَوْم عَمَل m (yawm ʕamal)
- Armenian: աշխատանքային օր (ašxatankʻayin ōr)
- Basque: astegun (eu)
- Belarusian: бу́дні дзень m (búdni dzjenʹ), працо́ўны дзень m (pracóŭny dzjenʹ)
- Breton: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: де́лничен ден m (délničen den)
- Catalan: dia feiner, dia laborable
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 平日 (zh) (píngrì), 平常日 (zh) (píngchángrì)
- Czech: všední den (cs) m, pracovní den (cs) m
- Danish: hverdag (da) c, arbejdsdag (da) c (work day), almindelig ugedag c (uncommon)
- Dutch: werkdag (nl) m, weekdag (nl) m
- Erzya: такойчи (takojči)
- Esperanto: labortago, semajntago
- Estonian: nädalapäev (et)
- Finnish: arkipäivä (fi)
- French: jour de la semaine (fr) m, jour ouvré (fr) m
- Galician: día solto m
- German: Wochentag (de) m, Werktag (de) m, Arbeitstag (de) m
- Greek: καθημερινή (el) f (kathimeriní)
- Hawaiian: lā noa
- Hebrew: יום חול / יוֹם חֹל (he) m (yóm khól)
- Hindi : (please verify) वार (hi) m (vār), काम करने के दिन m (kām karne ke din)
- Hungarian: hétköznap (hu), munkanap (hu)
- Icelandic: vikudagur (is) m
- Indonesian: hari biasa
- Ingrian: arkipäivä
- Irish: lá den tseachtain m
- Italian: giorno feriale (it) m
- Japanese: 平日 (ja) (へいじつ, heijitsu, ひらび, hirabi), ウィークデー (ja) (wīkudē), 週日 (ja) (しゅうじつ, shūjitsu)
- Kashmiri: وار (vār)
- Korean: 평일(平日) (ko) (pyeong'il), 주중(週中) (jujung)
- Latin: feria
- Latvian: darba dienā f
- Lithuanian: darbo diena f
- Luxembourgish: Wochendag (lb) m
- Macedonian: делник m (delnik)
- Manx: please add this translation if you can
- Northern Sami: árga
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hverdag (no) m, virkedag m, arbeidsdag (no) m
- Nynorsk: kvardag m, vyrkedag m, yrkedag m
- Ojibwe: anokii-giizhigad
- Old English: wicdæġ m
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: روزِ کاری (fa) (ruz-e kâri)
- Plautdietsch: Woakjeldach m
- Polish: dzień roboczy (pl) m inan
- Portuguese: dia de semana m
- Romanian: zi a săptămânii f, zi lucrătoare f
- Russian: рабо́чий день m (rabóčij denʹ), бу́дний день m (búdnij denʹ), бу́дни (ru) m pl (búdni)
- Scottish Gaelic: please add this translation if you can
- Slovak: všedný deň m, robotný deň m
- Slovene: delavnik m
- Spanish: día de entre semana m , día de entresemana m, dia laborable m
- Swedish: vardag (sv) c, arbetsdag (sv) c
- Tajik: рӯзи кор (rüz-i kor)
- Thai: วันทำงาน
- Turkish: hafta içi (tr), hafta arası (tr)
- Ukrainian: бу́день (uk) m (búdenʹ), бу́дній день m (búdnij denʹ), робо́чий день m (robóčyj denʹ)
- Urdu: (please verify) وار m (vār)
- Uzbek: oddiy kun, ish kuni, begim kuni
- Vietnamese: ngày thường (vi)
- Welsh: dydd o'r wythnos m
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