Κυριακή

See also: κυριακή

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κυριακή (kuriakḗ)

Etymology

Short for ἡ Κυριακὴ ἡμέρα (hē Kuriakḕ hēméra, “the Lord's Day”), from κυριακή (kuriakḗ), feminine form of κυριακός (kuriakós, “belonging to the lord”), from κύριος (kúrios, “lord”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /cy.ri.aˈci/ → /ci.ri.aˈci/

• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /cy.ri.aˈci/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /cy.ri.aˈci/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ci.ri.aˈci/

Noun

Κυριακή • (Kuriakḗ) f

1. (Koine, Christianity) Sunday, Lord's Day

Descendants

• → Coptic: ⲕⲩⲣⲓⲁⲕⲏ (kuriakē)
• Greek: Κυριακή (Kyriakí)
• → Old Georgian: კჳრიაკჱ (ḳwiriaḳē), კჳრაჲ (ḳwiray)
  • Georgian: კვირა (ḳvira)
    • → Bats: კვირაჸო̆ (ḳviraʾŏ), კუჲრაჸო̆ (ḳuyraʾŏ)
    • → Chechen: кӏира (kʼira)
    • → Ingush: кӏира (kʼira)
    • → Ossetian: къуӕре (k’wære), къуыри́ (k’°yrí)
• → Old Armenian: կիւրակէ (kiwrakē), կիրակէ (kirakē), կիրակի (kiraki), կիւրիակէ (kiwriakē)
  • Armenian: կիրակի (kiraki), կյուրակե (kyurake), կյուրակի (kyuraki) — dated, learned borrowings from Old Armenian
    • → Turkish: gireyi, gireği
    • → Zazaki: kîrye
  • → Arabic: الْكُرْكِيّ (al-kurkiyy, “name of a market in Partav”)
  • → Northern Kurdish: կիրակէ (kirakē)
• → Romani: kurko
• → Tat:

  Lahyj: քրաքի (kʰrakʰi)

References

• Sophocles, Evangelinos Apostolides (1900) “κυριακός”, in Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 698b
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “կիւրակէ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 598
• Abajev, V. I. (1958) Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, pages 652–653

Greek

Etymology

From Koine Greek Κυριακή.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /cirʝaˈci/
• Hyphenation: Κυ‧ρια‧κή
• older Hyphenation: Κυ‧ρι‧α‧κή (without synizesis)

Noun

Κυριακή • (Kyriakí) f (plural Κυριακές)

1. Sunday

Declension

Declension of Κυριακή

	singular	plural
nominative	Κυριακή •	Κυριακές •
genitive	Κυριακής •	Κυριακών •
accusative	Κυριακή •	Κυριακές •
vocative	Κυριακή •	Κυριακές •

Coordinate terms

• εβδομάδα f (evdomáda, “week”)
• Κυριακή f (Kyriakí, “Sunday”)
• Δευτέρα f (Deftéra, “Monday”)
• Τρίτη f (Tríti, “Tuesday”)
• Τετάρτη f (Tetárti, “Wednesday”)
• Πέμπτη f (Pémpti, “Thursday”)
• Παρασκευή f (Paraskeví, “Friday”)
• Σάββατο n (Sávvato, “Saturday”)
• σαββατοκύριακο n (savvatokýriako, “Weekend”)

 

Derived terms

• κυριακάτικα (kyriakátika, “on a Sunday”, adverb)
• κυριακάτικος (kyriakátikos, “of Sunday”)

 

Related terms

• κυρία f (kyría, “Madame, Mrs”)
• κυριακός (kyriakós, “of Sunday”) (especially in feminine) κυριακή
• κύριος (kýrios, “main, most important”)
• Κύριος m (Kýrios, “(literally: Lord) Christ”)
• κύριος m (kýrios, “Mr, Sir, Lord”)

 

Proper noun

Κυριακή • (Kyriakí) f

1. a female given name

   Antonym: Κυριάκος (Kyriákos)

Further reading

• Κυριακή on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el
• Κυριακή, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language