Monday

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English mōnandæġ (“day of the moon”), from mōna (“moon”) + (deprecated template usage) dæg, late (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *mēniniz dagaz, a translation of Latin (deprecated template usage) dies lunae. Compare West Frisian (deprecated template usage) moandei, Low German (deprecated template usage) Maandag, (deprecated template usage) Maondag, Dutch (deprecated template usage) maandag, German (deprecated template usage) Montag, Danish (deprecated template usage) mandag.

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈmʌn.deɪ/, /ˈmʌn.di/
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• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -ʌndeɪ or (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -ʌndi

Noun

Monday (plural Mondays)

1. The first day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm and second day of the week in many religious traditions. It follows Sunday and precedes Tuesday.
   • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:

     Mr. Whymper, a solicitor living in Willingdon, […] would visit the farm every Monday morning to receive his instructions.

   • Solomon Grundy,
     Born on a Monday,
     Christened on Tuesday,
     Married on Wednesday
     ill on Thursday,
     worse on Friday,
     Died on Saturday,
     Buried on Sunday.
     Such was the life
     Of Solomon Grundy.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Ash Monday
• Black Monday
• Bloody Monday
• blue Monday
• Clean Monday
• Collop Monday
• Cyber Monday
• Ducking Monday
• Easter Monday
• Fat Monday
• Gang-Monday

• Green Monday
• Handsel Monday
• Hock Monday
• Holy Monday
• Meal Monday
• Mon, Mon.
• Monday Club
• Monday disease
• Monday demonstrations
• Monday effect
• Monday fever

• Monday hammer
• Mondayish
• Mondayitis
• Mondayise, Mondayize
• Mondayman
• Monday-morning
• Monday pops
• Mondays
• Pentecost Monday
• Plough-Monday, Plow-Monday

• Pure Monday
• Rope Monday
• Saint Monday
• Saturday-to-Monday
• Selection Monday
• Shrove Monday
• Trinity Monday
• Wet Monday
• Whit Monday, Whit-Monday
• Whitsun Monday

Translations

day of the week

• Abkhaz: ашәахь (aŝʷaxʲ)
• Adyghe: блыпэ (bləpɛ)
• Afrikaans: Maandag (af)
• Alabama: nihtàllo inníhta
• Albanian: e hënë
• Alutiiq: Pekyun
• American Sign Language: M@Side-PalmBack CirclesHoriz
• Amharic: ሰኞ (senyo)
• Amuzgo: luñè
• Arabic: الإثنَين m (al-ʾiṯnáyn), يَوْم الإثنَين‎ m (yawm al-ʾiṯnáyn)

  Egyptian Arabic: الإتنين m (letneen)

• Armenian: երկուշաբթի (hy) (erkušabtʻi)

  Old Armenian: երկշաբաթի (erkšabatʻi)

• Aromanian: luni
• Asturian: llunes (ast) m
• Azeri: bazar ertəsi (az)
• Bashkir: дүшәмбе (düşəmbe)
• Basque: astelehen (eu)
• Belarusian: панядзелак (be) m (panjadzjélak)
• Bengali: সোমবার (bn) (shombar)
• Blackfoot: issikatoyiiksistsiko
• Breton: Lun (br) m
• Bulgarian: понеделник (bg) m (ponedélnik)
• Burmese: တနင်္လာ (my) (ta.nangla)
• Catalan: dilluns (ca) m
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⵔⵉⵎ (arim)
• Chechen: оршот (oršot)
• Cherokee: ᎤᎾᏙᏓᏉᏅᎯ (unadodaquonvhi)
• Chichewa: lolemba
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 星期一 (zh) (xīngqīyī), 禮拜一／礼拜一 (lǐbàiyī), 礼拜一 (zh) (lǐbàiyī), 周一 (zhōuyī)

• Chuvash: тунтикун (tunt̬ik̬un)
• Classical Nahuatl: lunes, ic ōmilhuitl semana
• Corsican: luni (co)
• Czech: pondělí (cs) n
• Dakota: Aŋpetutokaheya
• Danish: mandag (da)
• Dutch: maandag (nl) m
• Esperanto: lundo (eo)
• Estonian: esmaspäev (et)
• Faroese: mánadagur (fo) m
• Fijian: Moniti
• Finnish: maanantai (fi)
• French: lundi (fr) m
• Friulian: lunis
• Galician: luns (gl) m, segunda feira (gl) f
• Georgian: ორშაბათი (ka) (oršabati) (oršabat’i)
• German: Montag (de) m
• Gilbertese: Moanibong
• Greek: Δευτέρα (el) f (Deftéra)
• Greenlandic: Ataasinngorneq (kl)
• Gujarati: સોમવાર (gu) m (somavār)
• Haitian Creole: lendi
• Hawaiian: Pōʻakahi
• Hebrew: יום שני (he) m (yom shení)
• Hindi: सोमवार (hi) m (somavār), चन्द्रवार m (candravār)
• Hungarian: hétfő (hu)
• Icelandic: mánudagur (is) m
• Ido: lundio (io)
• Indonesian: Senin
• Interlingua: lunedi
• Irish: Luan (ga) m
• Italian: lunedì (it) m
• Japanese: 月曜日 (ja) (げつようび, getsuyōbi), 月曜 (げつよう, getsuyō)
• Jèrriais:
• Kannada: ಸೋಮವಾರ (kn) (somavār)
• Kashubian: pòniedzôłk (csb) m
• Kazakh: дүйсенбі (kk) (düysenbi)
• Khmer: ថ្ងៃច័ន្ទ (km) (tngai jŭn)
• Kinyarwanda: Kwambere
• Klamath-Modoc: lobiini
• Kongo: Lumbu kia ntete
• Korean: 월요일 (ko) (woryoil) (月曜日 (ko))
• Kurdish: , ,
• Kyrgyz: дүйшөмбү (ky) (düyşömbü)
• Ladin: lunesc
• Lao: ວັນຈັນ (lo) (wan-can)
• Latin: dies Lunae (la)
• Latvian: pirmdiena (lv)
• Lithuanian: pirmadienis (lt) m
• Livonian: ežžõmpǟva
• Lojban:
• Low German: Maandag, Maondag
• Lower Sorbian: pónjeźele n
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• Luganda: Kazooba, Bbalaza
• Luxembourgish: Méinden (lb) m, Méindeg (lb) m
• Macedonian: понеделник (mk) m (ponédelnik)
• Malay:

  Rumi: Isnin (ms), Senin, Senayan

  Jawi: اثنين, ثنين

• Maltese: it-Tnejn
• Maori: Mane, Rātahi, Rāhina
• Marathi: सोमवार (mr) m (somavār)
• Mirandese: segunda-feira
• Mongolian: даваа (mn) (davaa)
• Navajo: Damį́įgo Biiskání
• Neapolitan: lunnerì, lunnedì
• Norwegian: mandag (no) (Bokmål)

  Norwegian Nynorsk: måndag (nn)

• Occitan: diluns (oc)
• Ojibwe: ishkwaa-anami'egiizhigad, nitam-anokii-giizhigad
• Old English: mōnandæġ m
• Old Norse: mánudagr m
• Old Turkic: ikinç
• Ossetian:

  Digor: авдисӕр (avdisær)

  Iron: къуырисӕр (k’°yrisær)

• Papiamentu: dialuna
• Pashto: دوشنبه (dōšanbe), دوشنبې (ps) (dōšanbe)
• Persian: دوشنبه (fa) (došanbe)
• Polish: poniedziałek (pl) m
• Portuguese: segunda-feira (pt) f, segunda (pt) f
• Quechua: lunis
• Romani: luja
• Romanian: luni (ro) f
• Romansch: glindesdi, lündeschdi
• Russian: понедельник (ru) m (ponedélʹnik)
• Sami:

  Inari: vuossargâ

  Lule: mánnodahka

  Northern: vuossárga, (in Sweden) mánnodat

  Skolt: vuõssargg

  Southern: måanta

• Samoan: Aso Gafua
• Sardinian: lunis
• Scots: Monanday
• Scottish Gaelic: Diluain m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: понедељак m, понедјељак m

  Roman: ponedeljak (sh) m, ponedjeljak (sh) m

• Shona: Muvhuro
• Sicilian: luni (scn), luneddì, lunnidì, lunidìa (scn)
• Sinhalese: සඳුදා (si) (saⁿdudā)
• Skolt Sami: vuõssargg, vuõsargg
• Slovak: pondelok (sk) m
• Slovene: ponedéljek m
• Somali: Isniin
• Sotho: Mantaha (st)
• Spanish: lunes (es) m
• Swedish: måndag (sv) c
• Tagalog: Lunes, lunes
• Tahitian: Monite
• Tajik: душанбе (tg) (dušanbe)
• Tamil: திங்கள் (ta) (tiṅkaḷ)
• Taos: lúnąsi
• Tarantino: lunedìe
• Tatar: дүшәмбе (tt) (düşämbe)
• Telugu: సోమవారము (te) (sōmavāramu)
• Tetum: loron-segunda
• Thai: วันจันทร์ (th) (wanjan)
• Tok Pisin: mande
• Tongan: Monite
• Tswana: mosupologo
• Turkish: pazartesi (tr)
• Turkmen: duşenbe, başgün
• Ukrainian: понеділок (uk) m (ponedílok)
• Upper Sorbian: póndźela f
• Urdu: پیر (pir)
• Uyghur: دۈشەنبە (düshenbe)
• Uzbek: dushanba (uz)
• Venetian: luni (vec) m
• Vietnamese: thứ hai (vi)
• Volapük: mudel (vo), telüdel, mundel
• Walloon: londi (wa), dilon (wa)
• Welsh: dydd Llun (cy) m
• West Frisian: moandei (fy)
• Wolof: Altine
• Xhosa: umvulo
• Yiddish: מאָנטיק (yi) m (móntik)
• Yoruba: Ọjó ajé
• Yup'ik: Pekyun
• Zulu: uMsombuluko

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• Tibetan: ^{(please verify)} གཟའ་ཟླ་བ་ (gza' zla ba)
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Adverb

Monday (not comparable)

1. on Monday

Translations

on Monday

• Dutch: 's maandags (nl)
• Finnish: maanantaina
• French: lundi (fr)
• Galician: o luns
• German: Montag (de), am Montag
• Hungarian: hétfőn (hu)
• Irish: Dé Luain (ga)
• Italian: lunedì (it)
• Khmer: ថ្ងៃច័ន្ទ (km) (thngai chan)
• Latvian: pirmdien
• Lithuanian: pirmadienis (lt)
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• Macedonian: во понеделник (vo ponédelnik), понеделнички (ponedélnički)
• Maltese: nhar it-Tnejn
• Norwegian: på (no) mandag (no)
• Polish: w poniedziałek
• Portuguese: segunda-feira (pt), segunda (pt)
• Romanian: luni (ro), lunea (ro)
• Russian: в понедельник (v ponedél’nik)
• Scottish Gaelic: Di-luain m
• Swedish: på (sv) måndag (sv)
• Turkish: pazartesi (tr)
• Volapük: mudelo (vo), telüdelo, mundelo

See also

• (days of the week) day of the week; Sunday,‎ Monday,‎ Tuesday,‎ Wednesday,‎ Thursday,‎ Friday,‎ Saturday ^{(Category: en:Days of the week) [edit]}

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