Wednesday

English

Etymology

From Middle English Wednesday, Wednesdai, from unattested Old English *wēdnesdæġ (“Wednesday”), synchronically an i-mutated form of attested wōdnesdæġ (itself from Proto-West Germanic *Wōdanas dag, its reflex Middle English Wodnesdei falling into disuse), from Proto-West Germanic *Wōdinas dag also attested in Old Frisian wednesdei and Middle Dutch wenesdach. In any case, a calque (interpretātiō germānica) of Latin diēs Mercuriī (“day of Mercury”) and Koine Ancient Greek ἡμέρα (hēméra, “day”) Ἑρμοῦ (Hermoû, “of Hermes”), via an association of the god Odin (Woden) with Mercury and Hermes.

Cognate with West Frisian woansdei (“Wednesday”), Dutch woensdag (“Wednesday”), Dutch Low Saxon woonsdag (“Wednesday”), dialectal German Wodenstag (“Wednesday”), Danish onsdag (“Wednesday”), Norwegian Bokmål onsdag (“Wednesday”), Swedish onsdag (“Wednesday”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈwɛnzdeɪ/, /ˈwɛnzdi/, /ˈwɛdnz-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈwɛnzdeɪ/, /ˈwɛnzdi/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈwenzdæe/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈwɛ(ʔə)nzde/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnzdeɪ, -ɛnzdi, -ɛnzdɪ, -enzdæe, -ɛnzde

Noun

Wednesday (plural Wednesdays)

1. The fourth day of the week in many religious traditions, and the third day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; it follows Tuesday and precedes Thursday.

Synonyms

• hump day (informal)
• Wed, Wed., Weds (abbreviation)

Symbols

• W, We
• ☿ (archaic)

Hypernyms

• day

Hyponyms

• Ash Wednesday
• Black Wednesday
• calendar Wednesday
• Good Wednesday
• Holy Wednesday
• Sheffield Wednesday
• Spy Wednesday
• Whit Wednesday
• White Wednesday

 

Derived terms

• Wednesdays

Related terms

• Wednesbury
• Wednesday crucifixion theory
• Wednesdays in Mississippi

Descendants

• → Maori: Wenerei

Translations

day of the week

• Abkhaz: ахаша (axaŝa)
• Adyghe: бэрэскэжъый (bereskeẑəj)
• Afar: arbaq
• Afrikaans: Woensdag (af)
• Alabama: atótchìina, nihta atótchìina
• Albanian: e mërkurë
• Alutiiq: Pingayiin
• Amharic: ረቡዕ (räbuʿ)
• Ancient Greek: ἡμέρᾱ Ἑρμοῦ (hēmérā Hermoû), Ἑρμ(ε)ίᾱ (Herm(e)íā)
• Arabic: الْأَرْبِعَاء‎ (ar) m (al-ʔarbiʕāʔ), يَوْم الْأَرْبِعَاء‎ m (yawm al-ʔarbiʕāʔ)

  Egyptian Arabic: الأربع‎ m (l-arrbaʿ)

  Moroccan Arabic: الاربعا‎ (el-ārebʿa), الاربع‎ (el-ārbaʿ)

• Aragonese: miércols (an)
• Armenian: չորեքշաբթի (hy) (čʿorekʿšabtʿi)

  Old Armenian: չորեքշաբաթի (čʿorekʿšabatʿi)

• Aromanian: njercuri
• Assamese: বুধবাৰ (budhbar)
• Asturian: miércoles (ast) m
• Atikamekw: nicto kicikaw
• Avar: арбагӏ (arbaʻ)
• Azerbaijani: çərşənbə (az)
• Bashkir: шаршамбы (şarşambı)
• Basque: asteazken (eu)
• Bats: ჴო̄ (qō)
• Belarusian: серада́ f (sjeradá)
• Bengali: বুধবার (bn) (budhobar)
• Blackfoot: ííkaitaistssinao'p
• Breton: Merc'her (br) m, ^{(please verify)} dimerc'her (br) (adverb)
• Buginese: araba
• Bulgarian: сряда́ (bg) f (srjadá)
• Burmese: ဗုဒ္ဓဟူး (my) (buddha.hu:)
• Catalan: dimecres (ca) m
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⵀⴰⴷ (ahad)
• Chechen: кхаара (qaara)
• Cherokee: ᏦᎢᏁ ᎢᎦ (tsoine iga)
• Chichewa: Lachitatu
• Chickasaw: Nittak Atochchi'na', Nittak Hollo' Aaiklanna'
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 星期三 (sing¹ kei⁴ saam¹), 禮拜三／礼拜三 (lai⁵ baai³ saam¹), 周三 (zau¹ saam¹)

  Dungan: щинчисан (xinčisan), либэсан (libesan), чашанбэ (čašanbe)

  Mandarin: 星期三 (zh) (xīngqīsān), 禮拜三／礼拜三 (zh) (lǐbàisān), 周三 (zhōusān)

  Min Nan: 禮拜三／礼拜三 (lé-pài-sam), 拜三 (pài-sam)

• Chuvash: юнкун (junk̬un)
• Cornish: de Merher, dy'Mergher
• Corsican: màrcuri
• Crimean Tatar: çarşenbe
• Czech: středa (cs) f
• Dakota: Aŋpetuiyamni
• Dalmatian: misedma
• Danish: onsdag (da) c
• Dutch: woensdag (nl) m
• Dzongkha: ཕུར་བུ (phur bu)
• Esperanto: merkredo (eo)
• Estonian: kolmapäev (et)
• Farefare: Alaarba
• Faroese: mikudagur (fo) m, ónsdagur m
• Fijian: siga Vukelulu
• Finnish: keskiviikko (fi)
• French: mercredi (fr) m
• Friulian: miercus, miercui
• Fula:

  Latin: Alarba, Njeslaare

  Adlam: 𞤀𞤤𞤢𞤪𞤦𞤢‎, 𞤐𞤶𞤫𞤧𞤤𞤢𞥄𞤪𞤫‎

• Galician: mércores (gl) m, corta feira (gl) f, cuarta feira (gl) f
• Georgian: ოთხშაბათი (ka) (otxšabati)
• German: Mittwoch (de) m, (poetic) Wotanstag m
• Gilbertese: Katenibong
• Greek: Τετάρτη (el) f (Tetárti)
• Greenlandic: pingasunngorneq
• Guerrero Amuzgo: mikluè
• Gujarati: બુધવાર (gu) (budhvār)
• Haitian Creole: mèkredi
• Hausa: Laraba (ha)
• Hawaiian: Pōʻakolu
• Hebrew: יוֹם רְבִיעִי‎ (he) m (yom revi’í), יוֹם ד'‎ m (yom dálet)
• Hiligaynon: Miyerkoles
• Hindi: बुधवार (hi) m (budhvār), बुध (hi) m (budh), ज्ञवार (hi) m (gyavār)
• Hungarian: szerda (hu)
• Icelandic: miðvikudagur (is) m
• Ido: merkurdio (io)
• Indonesian: hari rabu
• Ingrian: sereta
• Ingush: кхаьра (qära)
• Interlingua: mercuridi (ia)
• Irish: Céadaoin (ga) f
• Italian: mercoledì (it) m
• Japanese: 水曜日 (ja) (すいようび, suiyōbi), 水曜 (ja) (すいよう, suiyō)
• Kabardian: бэрэжьей (bereźeej)
• Kannada: ಬುಧವಾರ (kn) (budhavāra)
• Karelian: kolmaspäivy
• Kashmiri: بۄد وار‎ (bọd vār)
• Kashubian: strzoda (csb) f
• Kazakh: сәрсенбі (kk) (särsenbı)
• Khmer: ថ្ងៃពុធ (km) (thngay put)
• Kongo: Lumbu kia ntatu
• Korean: 수요일(水曜日) (ko) (suyoil)
• Kumyk: арбагюн (arbagün)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: چوارشەم‎ (çwarşem), چوارشەمە‎ (çwarşeme)

  Northern Kurdish: çarşem (ku)

• Kusaal: alaarba daat
• Kyrgyz: шаршемби (ky) (şarşembi)
• Ladin: mercol
• Lakota: Aŋpétu Yámni
• Lao: ວັນພຸດ (lo) (wan phut), ພຸດ (phut)
• Latin: diēs Mercuriī (la) m or f, fēria quarta f (ecclesiastical)
• Latvian: trešdiena f
• Laz: ჯუმაჩხა (cumaçxa)
• Lezgi: арбе (arbe)
• Limburgish: woonsdig (li), goonsdig (li)
• Lithuanian: trečiadienis (lt) m
• Livonian: kuolmõndpǟva
• Lombard: mercoldi
• Louisiana Creole French: mékrédi, mèkrèdi, mærkrédi
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: woensdag (nds) (Gronings, Stellingwerfs, Sallans, Twents, Veluws), woonsdag (nds) (Twents, Veluws), wonsdag (nds) (Drents, Gronings)

  German Low German: Middeweek (nds) m, Mödweek, Merrweek, Woonsdag m

• Luganda: Lwakusatu
• Luxembourgish: Mëttwoch (lb) m
• Lü: ᦞᧃᦗᦳᧆ (vanpud)
• Macedonian: среда (mk) f (sreda)
• Makasar: araba
• Malay:

  Jawi: رابو‎, اربع‎, هاري تيݢ‎ (Sabah, Singapore)

  Rumi: Rabu (ms), Arbaa (ms), Hari Tiga (Sabah, Singapore)

• Malayalam: ബുധനാഴ്ച (ml) (budhanāḻca), ബുധൻ (ml) (budhaṉ)
• Maltese: l-Erbgħa
• Manchu: ᠮᡠᡴᡝ
  ᡠᠰᡳᠩᡤᡳ (muke usinggi)
• Maori: Wenerei, Rātoru, Rāapa
• Maranao: Arba'a
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: вӱргече (vürgeče)

• Mingrelian: ჯუმაშხა (ǯumašxa)
• Mirandese: quarta-feira
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: лхагва (mn) (lxagva) (written), гурав дахь өдөр (gurav daxʹ ödör) (spoken), гарагийн гурав (garagiin gurav) (Inner Mongolia)

  Mongolian: ᡀᠠᠭᠪᠠ (lhaɣba), ᠭᠤᠷᠪᠠ
  ᠳ᠋ᠠᠬᠢ
  ᠡᠳᠦᠷ (ɣurba daqi edür), ᠭᠠᠷᠠᠭ ᠦᠨ
  ᠭᠤᠷᠪᠠ (ɣaraɣ-ün ɣurba)

• Moore: arba, laarba
• Mòcheno: mitta m
• Navajo: Tágíjį́ Ndaʼanish
• Neapolitan: miercurì
• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: weedensdai

  Mooring: weensdi

  Sylt: Winjsdai

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: onsdag (no) m

  Nynorsk: onsdag (nn) m

• Occitan: dimècres (oc)
• Ojibwe: aabitoose
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: срѣда f (srěda)

• Old East Slavic: середа f (sereda)
• Old English: wōdnesdæġ m
• Old Norse: óðinsdagr m
• Old Turkic: törtünç
• Oriya: ବୁଧବାର (budhôbarô)
• Oromo: Roobii (om)
• Ossetian:

  Digor: ӕртиккӕг (ærtikkæg)

  Iron: ӕртыццӕг (ærtyccæg)

• Papiamentu: diarason
• Pashto: چارشنبه‎ (ps) f (čāršanbá)
• Pennsylvania German: Mittwoch
• Persian: چهارشنبه‎ (fa) (čahâr-šanbe)
• Plautdietsch: Medwäakj m
• Polish: środa (pl) f
• Portuguese: quarta-feira (pt) f
• Punjabi : ਬੁੱਧਵਾਰ (pa) (buddhavār)
• Quechua: mirkulis, quyllurchaw
• Romani: tetradǐ f
• Romanian: miercuri (ro) f
• Romansch: mesemna, mesjamna, measeanda, mesemda, marculdi, marcurdi
• Russian: среда́ (ru) f (sredá)
• Rwanda-Rundi: Kwagatatu
• Sami:

  Inari Sami: koskokko

  Northern Sami: gaskavahkku

  Skolt Sami: seärad

  Southern Sami: gaskevåhkoe

• Samoan: Aso Lulu
• Sardinian: mélcuris m, mércuis, mérculis, mércuris, mèrcuris
• Scots: Wadensday
• Scottish Gaelic: Diciadain (gd) m
• Semai: Rabu
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: среда f, сриједа f

  Roman: sreda (sh) f, srijeda (sh) f

• Shona: Chitatu
• Sicilian: mèrcuri (scn), mercuridìa (scn), mièrcuri (scn)
• Sindhi : اَربع‎ (sd), ٻُڌَرُ‎, ٻُڌُ‎
• Sinhalese: බදාදා (si) (badādā)
• Slovak: streda (sk) f
• Slovene: sréda (sl) f
• Somali: arbaco
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: srjoda f

  Upper Sorbian: srjeda f

• Sotho: Laboraro (st)
• Spanish: miércoles (es) m
• Sundanese: rebo (su)
• Svan: ჯჷმა̈შ (ǯəmäš)
• Swahili: Jumatano
• Swedish: onsdag (sv) c
• Tabasaran: гьербе (herbe)
• Tagalog: Miyerkoles, miyerkoles
• Tahitian: Mahana toru
• Tajik: чоршанбе (tg) (čoršanbe), чаҳоршанбе (tg) (čahoršanbe)
• Tamil: புதன் (ta) (putaṉ)
• Taos: míalkulisi
• Tarantino: mercrudìe
• Tatar: чәршәмбе (tt) (çärşämbe)
• Tausug: Albaa
• Telugu: బుధవారము (te) (budhavāramu)
• Tetum: loron-kuarta
• Thai: วันพุธ (th) (wan pút), พุธ (th) (pút)
• Tibetan: གཟའ་ལྷག་པ (gza' lhag pa)
• Tok Pisin: trinde
• Tongan: Pulelulu
• Tswana: laboraro
• Turkish: çarşamba (tr)
• Turkmen: çarşenbe, hoşgün
• Udmurt: вирнунал (virnunal)
• Ukrainian: середа́ (uk) f (seredá)
• Urdu: بدھ‎ (ur) (budh), بدھوار‎ (budhvār), چہار شنبہ‎ (cahār śanba)
• Uyghur: چارشەنبە‎ (charshenbe)
• Uzbek: chorshanba (uz)
• Venetian: mèrcore (vec) m
• Vietnamese: thứ tư (vi)
• Volapük: vedel (vo), (older term) folüdel, (older term) vesdel
• Votic: kõlmõzpäive
• Walloon: mierkidi (wa), dimiek (wa)
• Welsh: dydd Mercher (cy)
• West Frisian: woansdei (fy)
• Winnebago: Hąąp Hitanįhą
• Wolof: Àllarba
• Xhosa: uLwesithathu
• Yakan: Alaba'a
• Yakut: сэрэдэ (serede)
• Yiddish: מיטוואָך‎ (yi) m (mitvokh)
• Yup'ik: Pingayirin
• Zazaki: çarşeme (diq)
• Zulu: uLwesithathu

Proper noun

Wednesday

1. (UK, soccer) nickname of Sheffield Wednesday of the Football League.

Adverb

Wednesday (not comparable)

1. (US, Canada) on Wednesday

Translations

on Wednesday

• Galician: o mércores
• Georgian: ოთხშაბათს (otxšabats)
• Irish: Dé Céadaoin (ga)
• Latvian: trešdien
• Romanian: miercuri (ro), miercurea (ro)
• Serbo-Croatian: средом
• Slovak: v stredu
• Turkish: çarşamba (tr)
• Volapük: vedelo (vo), folüdelo, vesdelo
• Welsh: ddydd Mercher
• West Frisian: woansdeis (fy)

See also

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

Middle English

Alternative forms

• Wednesdei, Wodnesdai, Wedonesday, wednesday

Etymology

From Old English *wēdnesdæġ, a by-form of wōdnesdæġ, from Proto-West Germanic *Wōdanas dag.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɛ(d)n(ə)zdɛi̯/

Proper noun

Wednesday

1. Wednesday

Derived terms

• Aschewednysday

Descendants

• English: Wednesday
  • → Maori: Wenerei
• Scots: Wadensday
• Yola: wennesdei

References

• “Wednes-dai, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

See also

• (days of the week) weke-dayes; Sunnenday, Monday, Tewesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saterday ^{(Category: enm:Days of the week)}