"Thursday Thursday is the day of the week between Wednesday and Friday. According to the ISO 8601 international standard, it is the fourth day of the week. ""See Names of the days of the week for more on naming conventions. "" The name is derived from Old English ""Þūnresdæg"" and Middle English ""Thuresday"" (with loss of -n-, first in northern dialects, from influence of Old Norse ""Þorsdagr"") meaning ""Thor's Day"". It was named after the Norse god of Thunder, Thor. ""Thunor, Donar"" (German, ""Donnerstag"") and ""Thor"" are derived from the name of the Germanic god of thunder, ""Thunraz"", equivalent to"
"holiday Thursday (or Tuesday) and the weekend is called a ""Brückentag"" (""bridge day"") in Germany and Switzerland, and a ""Fenstertag"" (""window day"") in Austria. Since Ascension day is a holiday throughout Germany and Corpus Christi is a holiday in large parts of the country (both of these holidays are always on Thursdays), such ""bridge days"" are fairly common, though always unofficial in character. The ""bridge day"" terminology is also used in Israel (""yom gishur""/"""") and Flanders (""brugdag""; not so common in The Netherlands). The term długi weekend (Polish for ""long weekend"") is also commonly used in the Polish language. In"
"fourth day in a week. The Baltic languages also use the term ""fourth day"" (Latvian ""ceturtdiena"", Lithuanian ""ketvirtadienis""). Greek uses a number for this day: Πέμπτη ""Pémpti"" ""fifth,"" as does ""fifth day,"" Hebrew: ""יום חמישי"" (""Yom Hamishi"" – day fifth) often written 'יום ה (""Yom Hey"" – 5th letter Hey day), and Arabic: ""يوم الخميس"" (""Yaum al-Khamīs"" – fifth day). Rooted from Arabic, Indonesian word for Thursday is ""Kamis"", similarly ""Khamis"" in Malay and ""Kemis"" in Javanese. In Catholic liturgy, Thursday is referred to in Latin as ""feria quinta"". Portuguese, unlike other Romance languages, uses the word ""quinta-feira,"" meaning ""fifth"
"day on the electoral timetable, therefore an election can now be held on Maundy Thursday; prior to this elections were sometimes scheduled on the Tuesday before as an alternative. Thursday is aligned by the planet Jupiter and the astrological signs of Pisces and Sagittarius. Thursday Thursday is the day of the week between Wednesday and Friday. According to the ISO 8601 international standard, it is the fourth day of the week. ""See Names of the days of the week for more on naming conventions. "" The name is derived from Old English ""Þūnresdæg"" and Middle English ""Thuresday"" (with loss of"
"the Hindu deity Bṛhaspati, also associated with Jupiter. En was an old Illyrian deity and in his honor in the Albanian language Thursday is called ""Enjte"". In the Nahuatl language, Thursday is () meaning ""day of Tezcatlipoca"". In Slavic languages and in Chinese, this day's name is ""fourth"" (Slovak ""štvrtok"", Czech ""čtvrtek"", Slovene ""četrtek"", Croatian and Bosnian ""četvrtak"", Polish ""czwartek"", Russian ""четверг"" ""četverg"", Bulgarian ""четвъртък"", Serbian ""четвртак"", Macedonian ""четврток"", Ukrainian ""четвер"" ""chetver"".). Hungarian uses a Slavic loanword ""csütörtök"". In Chinese, it's 星期四 ""xīngqīsì"" (""fourth solar day""). In ancient Chinese, it is 木曜日. In Estonian it's ""neljapäev"", meaning fourth day or"
"Persian (چهارشنبه—Cheharshnbh). Portuguese uses the word ""quarta-feira"", meaning ""fourth day"", while in Greek the word is ""Tetarti"" (Τετάρτη) meaning simply ""fourth"". Similarly, Arabic means ""fourth"", Hebrew means ""fourth"", and Persian means ""fourth day"". Yet the name for the day in Estonian ""kolmapäev"", Lithuanian ""trečiadienis"", and Latvian ""trešdiena"" means ""third day"" while in Mandarin Chinese (""xīngqīsān""), means ""day three"", as Sunday is unnumbered. The Creation narrative in the Hebrew Bible places the creation of the Sun and Moon on ""the fourth day"" of the divine workweek. Quakers traditionally referred to Wednesday as ""Fourth Day"" to avoid the pagan associations with the"
"is kept the apodosis or conclusion of the feast of Easter. The Greeks sing the Canons of Easter up to this Tuesday in the same manner as during Easter Week, whilst in the Latin Church the specific Easter Office terminates on Saturday following the feast. Thursday is the feast of the Ascension. The Friday of this week, in Germany, is called ""Witterfreitag""; the fields are blessed against frost and thunderstorms. Sunday within the octave of Ascension is called ""Exaudi"" from the Introit; in some dioceses it is called Feast of Our Lady, Queen of the Apostles (double major) or of"
"German. ""Samstag"" is always used in Austria, Liechtenstein, and the German-speaking part of Switzerland, and generally used in southern and western Germany. It derives from Old High German ""sambaztac"", which itself derives from Greek ""Σάββατο"", and this Greek word derives from Hebrew ""שבת"" (Shabbat). However, the current German word for Sabbath is ""Sabbat"". The second name for Saturday in German is ""Sonnabend"", which derives from Old High German ""sunnunaband"", and is closely related to the Old English word ""sunnanæfen"". It means literally ""Sun eve"", i.e., ""The day before Sunday"". ""Sonnabend"" is generally used in northern and eastern Germany, and was"
"English days of the week were inherited from gods of the old Germanic Norse culture — Wednesday is ""Wōden""’s-day (""Wōden"" or ""Wettin"" eqv. Mercury), Thursday is ""Thor""’s-day (Thor eqv. Jupiter), Friday is ""Frige""-day (Frig eqv. Venus). It can be correlated that the Norse gods were attributed to each Roman planet and its god, probably due to Roman influence rather than coincidentally by the naming of the planets. In alchemy, each classical planet (Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn) was associated with one of the seven metals known to the classical world (silver, mercury/quicksilver, copper, gold, iron, tin and"
"Wednesday Wednesday is the day of the week between Tuesday and Thursday. According to international standard ISO 8601 it is the third day of the week. In countries that use the ""Sunday-last"" convention and in the Jewish Hebrew calendar Wednesday is defined as the third day of the week. The name is derived from Old English ""Wōdnesdæg"" and Middle English ""Wednesdei"", ""day of Woden"", reflecting the pre-Christian religion practiced by the Anglo-Saxons, a variation of the Norse god Odin. In other languages, such as the French ""mercredi"" or Italian ""mercoledì"", the day's name is a calque of ""dies Mercurii"" ""day"
"Swabians and Alemanns, where Swabian-Alemannic dialects are spoken. The region covers German Switzerland, the larger part of Baden-Württemberg, Alsace, south-western Bavaria and Vorarlberg (western Austria). The festival starts on the Thursday before Ash Wednesday, known as ""Schmotziger Donnerstag"". In Standard German, ""schmutzig"" means ""dirty"", but in the Alemannic dialects ""schmotzig"" means ""lard"" (Schmalz), or ""fat""; ""Greasy Thursday"", as remaining winter stores of lard and butter used to be consumed at that time, before the fasting began. Elsewhere the day is called ""Women's Carnival"" ""(Weiberfastnacht)"", being the day when tradition says that women take control. In particular regions of Tyrol, Salzburg"
"terms of Norse origin for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, then later supplanted these with terms relating to church fasting practices. Albanian adopted the Latin terms for Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, adopted translations of the Latin terms for Sunday and Monday, and kept native terms for Thursday and Friday. Other languages adopted the week together with the Latin (Romance) names for the days of the week in the colonial period. Some constructed languages also adopted the Latin terminology. The Germanic peoples adapted the system introduced by the Romans by substituting the Germanic deities for the Roman ones (with the exception of"
"Rosenmontag The name for the carnival comes from the German dialect word meaning ""frolic"" and meaning Monday. The season begins at 11 minutes past the eleventh hour on 11 November and the ""street carnival"" starts on the Thursday before , which is known as (""women's carnival"", Fat Thursday). is prevalent in Roman Catholic areas and is a continuation of the old Roman traditions of slaves and servants being master for a day. derives from the Latin (""taking leave of meat"") marking the beginning of Lent. Carnival is not a national holiday in Germany, but schools are closed on and the"
"Jupiter in the ""interpretatio romana"". Estonians used to gather in holy woods (Hiis) on Thursday evenings, where a bagpipe player sat on a stone and played while people danced and sang until the dawn. In most Romance languages, the day is named after the Roman god Jupiter, who was the god of sky and thunder. In Latin, the day was known as ""Iovis Dies"", ""Jupiter's Day"". In Latin, the genitive or possessive case of Jupiter was ""Iovis""/""Jovis"" and thus in most Romance languages it became the word for Thursday: Italian ""giovedì"", Spanish ""jueves"", French ""jeudi"", Sardinian jòvia, Catalan ""dijous"", Galician"
"of Mercury"". It has the most letters out of all the Gregorian calendar days. Wednesday is in the middle of the common Western five-day workweek that starts on Monday and finishes on Friday. The name Wednesday continues Middle English ""Wednesdei"". Old English still had ""wōdnesdæg"", which would be continued as ""*Wodnesday"" (but Old Frisian has an attested ""wednesdei""). By the early 13th century, the ""i""-mutated form was introduced unetymologically. The name is a calque of the Latin ""dies Mercurii"" ""day of Mercury"", reflecting the fact that the Germanic god Woden (Wodanaz or Odin) during the Roman era was interpreted as"
"a Friday–Saturday weekend: on 1 September 2006 in Bahrain and the UAE, and a year later in Kuwait. In Iran, Friday and Thursday are weekend days. The name ""Friday"" comes from the Old English ', meaning the ""day of Frige"", a result of an old convention associating the Germanic goddess Frigg with the Roman goddess Venus, with whom the day is associated in many different cultures. The same holds for ' in Old High German, ' in Modern German, and ' in Dutch. The expected cognate name in Old Norse would be *'. However, the name of Friday in Old"
"""Germanic Mercury"". The Latin name dates to the late 2nd or early 3rd century. It is a calque of Greek (""heméra Hérmou""), a term first attested, together with the system of naming the seven weekdays after the seven classical planets, in the ""Anthologiarum"" by Vettius Valens (c. AD 170). The Latin name is reflected directly in the weekday name in most modern Romance languages: ""Mércuris"" (Sardinian), ""mercredi"" (French), ""mercoledì"" (Italian), ""miércoles"" (Spanish), ""miercuri"" (Romanian), ""dimecres"" (Catalan), ""Marcuri"" or ""Mercuri"" (Corsican). In Welsh it is Dydd Mercher, meaning Mercury's Day. The German name for the day, ""Mittwoch"" (literally: ""mid-week""), replaced the"
"derive from Latin, days of the week still preserve the names of the original Roman deities, such as the Italian for Tuesday, ""martedì"" (from the Latin ""Martis dies""). This is also the case with Saturn in some West Germanic languages; such as the English ""Saturday"", the West Frisian """", the Low German """" and the Dutch """" all meaning Saturn's day. Simek emphasizes the paucity of evidence and notes that comparison with Roman gods is insufficient to reconstruct ancient Germanic gods and equate them definitively with those of later Norse mythology. The following is a list of Greek, Roman, Etruscan,"
"that work even on holidays) is becoming more and more unusual; schools are closed in any case. Ascension Day (Christi Himmelfahrt) and Corpus Christi (Fronleichnam) are both always on Thursdays. By taking only one day's leave, employees can have a four-day weekend. The Three Kings Day, better known as Epiphany, is 6 January, the day after the 12 days of Christmas. In parts of Germany, it has its own local customs. Public holidays in Germany By law, ""the Sundays and the public holidays remain protected as days of rest from work and of spiritual elevation"" (Art. 139 WRV, part of"
"Norse is ' instead, indicating a loan of the week-day names from Low German. The modern Scandinavian form is ' in Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish, meaning Freyja's day. The distinction between Freyja and Frigg in some Germanic mythologies is contested. The word for Friday in most Romance languages is derived from Latin ' or ""day of Venus"" (a translation of Greek ', ), such as ' in French, ' in Catalan, ' in Corsican, ' in Italian, ' in Romanian, and ' in Spanish and influencing the Filipino ' or ', and the Chamorro '. This is also reflected in"
"""Ónsdagur"", though, which shares etymology with Wednesday. Danish, Norwegian, Swedish Onsdag, (""Ons-dag"" = Oden's/Odin's dag/day). In Japanese, the word for Wednesday is 水曜日(sui youbi), meaning 'water day' and is associated with 水星 (suisei): Mercury (the planet), literally meaning ""water star"". Similarly, in Korean the word Wednesday is 수요일 (su yo il), also meaning water day. In most of the languages of India, the word for Wednesday is Budhavāra — vāra meaning day and Budha being the planet Mercury. In Armenian (Չորեքշաբթի—chorekshabti), Georgian (ოთხშაბათი—otkhshabati), Turkish (Çarşamba), and Tajik (Chorshanbiyev) languages the word literally means as ""four (days) from Saturday"" originating from"
"gives other examples with the sense ""of a day or season observed as holy by the church"" as an archaic sense of ""good"" (""good"", adj. 8c) as in ""good tide"" meaning ""Christmas"" or ""Shrove Tuesday"", and ""Good Wednesday"" meaning the Wednesday in Holy Week. In German-speaking countries, Good Friday is generally referred to as ""Karfreitag"" (""Kar"" from Old High German ""kara""‚ ""bewail"", ""grieve""‚ ""mourn"", Freitag for ""Friday""): Mourning Friday. The ""Kar"" prefix is a cognate of the English word ""care"" in the sense of cares and woes; it meant mourning. The day is also known as ""Stiller Freitag"" (""Silent Friday"")"
"also the official name for Saturday in East Germany. In West Frisian there are also two words for Saturday. In Wood Frisian it is "" saterdei"" and in Clay Frisian it is ""sneon"", derived from ""snjoen"", a combination of Old Frisian ""sunne"", meaning ""sun"" and ""joen"", meaning eve. In the Westphalian dialects of Low Saxon, in East Frisian Low Saxon and in the Saterland Frisian language, Saturday is called ""Satertag"", also akin to Dutch ""Zaterdag"", which has the same linguistic roots as the English word ""Saturday"". It was formerly thought that the English name referred to a deity named ""Sætere"""
"carnival events during one or even two weeks before Ash Wednesday be called Karneval, Fasching, or Fastnacht among others, depending on the region. In standard German, ""schmutzig"" means ""dirty"", but in the Alemannic dialects ""schmotzig"" means ""lard"" (Schmalz), or ""fat""; ""Greasy Thursday"", as remaining winter stores of lard and butter used to be consumed at that time, before the fasting began. ""Fastnacht"" means ""Eve of the Fast"", but all three terms cover the whole carnival season. The traditional start of the carnival season is on 11 November at 11:11 am (11/11 11:11). In Italy Mardi Gras is called Martedì Grasso"
"""T"". By way of the process of ""interpretatio germanica"", the deity is the namesake of Tuesday ('Týr's day') in Germanic languages, including English. ""Interpretatio romana"", in which Romans interpret other gods as forms of their own, generally renders the god as ""Mars"", the ancient Roman war god, and it is through that lens that most Latin references to the god occur. For example, the god may be referenced as ""Mars Thingsus"" (Latin 'Mars of the Thing') on 3rd century Latin inscription, reflecting a strong association with the Germanic thing, a legislative body among the ancient Germanic peoples still in use"
"a Proto-Germanic weekday name meaning 'day of Tīwaz', itself a result of ""interpretatio germanica"" of Latin ""dies Martis"" (meaning 'day of Mars'). This attests to an early Germanic identification of *Tīwaz with Mars. The god is the namesake of the rune representing /""t""/ (the Tiwaz (rune)) in the runic alphabets, the indigenous alphabets of the ancient Germanic peoples prior to their adaptation of the Latin alphabet. The name of the rune first occurs in the historical record as ""tyz"", a character in the Gothic alphabet (4th century). Germanic weekday names for 'Tuesday' that do not transparently extend from the above"
"day of liturgical celebration"", that comes from the Latin ""feria quinta"" used in religious texts where it was not allowed to consecrate days to pagan gods. Icelandic also uses the term ""fifth day"" (""Fimmtudagur""). Quakers traditionally referred to Thursday as ""Fifth Day"" eschewing the pagan origin of the English name ""Thursday"". In the Christian tradition, Maundy Thursday or Holy Thursday is the Thursday before Easter — the day on which the Last Supper occurred. Also known as ""Sheer Thursday"" in the United Kingdom, it is traditionally a day of cleaning and giving out Maundy money there. Holy Thursday is part"
"Fat Thursday Fat Thursday is a traditional Christian feast marking the last Thursday before Lent and is associated with the celebration of Carnival. Because Lent is a time of fasting, the next opportunity to feast would not be until Laetare Sunday, and after that not until Easter. Traditionally it is a day dedicated to eating, when people meet in their homes or cafés with their friends and relatives and eat large quantities of sweets, cakes and other meals usually not eaten during Lent. Among the most popular all-national dishes served on that day are pączki in Poland or berliner, fist-sized"
"Saturday Saturday is the day of the week between Friday and Sunday. The Romans named Saturday ""Sāturni diēs"" (""Saturn's Day"") no later than the 2nd century for the planet Saturn, which controlled the first hour of that day, according to Vettius Valens. The day's name was introduced into West Germanic languages and is recorded in the Low German languages such as Middle Low German ""sater(s)dach"", Middle Dutch ""saterdag"" (Modern Dutch ""zaterdag"") and Old English ""Sætern(es)dæġ"" and ""Sæterdæġ"". The day was also referred to as ""Sæternes dæġe"" in an Old English translation of Bede's ""Ecclesiastical History of the English People"". In"
"(? Old Germanic type *""laŋgito""- , *""laŋgiton""-) seems to be a derivative of *""laŋgo""- long ... and may possibly have reference to the lengthening of the days as characterizing the season of spring'. The origin of the -""en"" element is less clear: it may simply be a suffix, or ""lencten"" may originally have been a compound of *""laŋgo""- 'long' and an otherwise little-attested word *-""tino"", meaning 'day'. In languages spoken where Christianity was earlier established, such as Greek and Latin, the term signifies the period dating from the 40th day before Easter. In modern Greek the term is ""Σαρακοστή"", derived"
"Europe and it is especially aligned by the astrological signs of Gemini and Virgo. Wednesday is one of the only three days aside from Neptune and Pluto to be associated by another planet, which is Uranus. Wednesday Wednesday is the day of the week between Tuesday and Thursday. According to international standard ISO 8601 it is the third day of the week. In countries that use the ""Sunday-last"" convention and in the Jewish Hebrew calendar Wednesday is defined as the third day of the week. The name is derived from Old English ""Wōdnesdæg"" and Middle English ""Wednesdei"", ""day of Woden"","
"Persian and related languages یکشنبه ""yek-shanbe"", all meaning ""first"". In Greek, the names of the days Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday (""Δευτέρα"", ""Τρίτη"", ""Τετάρτη"" and ""Πέμπτη"") mean ""second"", ""third"", ""fourth"", and ""fifth"" respectively. This leaves Sunday in the first position of the week count. The current Greek name for Sunday, ""Κυριακή"" (Kyriake), means ""Lord's Day"" coming from the word ""Κύριος"" (Kyrios), which is the Greek word for ""Lord"". Similarly in Portuguese, where the days from Monday to Friday are counted as ""segunda-feira"", ""terça-feira"", ""quarta-feira"", ""quinta-feira"" and ""sexta-feira"", while Sunday itself similar to Greek has the name of ""Lord's Day"" (""domingo"")."
"week'), hence modern German ""Mittwoch"". The earliest records of the Germanic peoples were recorded by the Romans, and in these works Odin is frequently referred to—via a process known as (where characteristics perceived to be similar by Romans result in identification of a non-Roman god as a Roman deity)—as the Roman god Mercury. The first clear example of this occurs in the Roman historian Tacitus's late 1st-century work , where, writing about the religion of the (a confederation of Germanic peoples), he comments that ""among the gods Mercury is the one they principally worship. They regard it as a religious"