English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle English weke, from Old English wice, wucu (“week”), from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ (“turn, succession, change, week”), from Proto-Indo-European *weig-, *weik- (“to bend, wind, turn, yield”). Related to Proto-Germanic *wīkaną (“to bend, yield, cease”). The Dutch noun derives from a related verb *waikwaz (“to yield”), via the current Dutch form wijken (“to cede, give way”).
Related words are Old High German wohha (Modern German Woche), Old Frisian wike (West Frisian wike), Middle Dutch weke (“week”) (modern Dutch week), Old Saxon wika, Old Norse vika (Icelandic vika, Norwegian veke Danish uge), Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌺𐍉 (wikô, “turn for temple service”), Old English wīcan.
Pronunciation [edit]
Wikipedia week (plural weeks)
- Any period of seven consecutive days.
- A period of seven days beginning with Sunday or Monday.
- A subdivision of the month into longer periods of work days punctuated by shorter weekend periods of days for markets, rest, or religious observation such as a sabbath.
- Seven days after (sometimes before) a specified date.
- I'll see you Thursday week.
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
period of seven days
- Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
- Albanian: javë (sq) f
- American Sign Language: 1@BasePalm-PalmDown-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp 1@Finger-PalmDown-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp
- Arabic: أسْبُوع (ar) (’usbuu3) m أسْبُوعَان (’usbu3aan) dual, أسَابِيع (’asabii3) pl
- Egyptian Arabic: اسبوع (esbo3) m
- Armenian: շաբաթ (hy) (šabat')
- Aromanian: siptãmãnã (rup) f
- Asturian: selmana (ast) f
- Avar: please add this translation if you can
- Azeri: həftə (az)
- Bashkir: аҙна (aðna)
- Basque: aste (eu)
- Belarusian: тыдзень (be) (týdzen’) m
- Breton: sizhun (br) f
- Bulgarian: седмица (bg) (sedmítsa) f
- Burmese: ရက်သတ္တပါတ် (my)
- Catalan: setmana (ca) f
- Chechen: please add this translation if you can
- Cherokee: ᏑᎾᏙᏓᏆᏍᏗ (chr) (sunadodaquasdi)
- Chichewa: mulungu
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 星期 (singkei)
- Mandarin: 星期 (cmn) (xīngqī), 周 (cmn) (zhōu), 禮拜 (cmn), 礼拜 (cmn) (lǐbài)
- Crimean Tatar: afta
- Czech: týden (cs) m
- Dalmatian: jedma f
- Danish: uge (da)
- Dutch: week (nl) f
- Esperanto: semajno (eo)
- Estonian: nädal (et)
- Faroese: vika (fo) f
- Fijian: macava (fj)
- Finnish: viikko (fi)
- French: semaine (fr) f
- Old French: semaine f
- Friulian: setemane
- Galician: semana (gl) f
- Georgian: კვირა (ka) (kvira)
- German: Woche (de) f
- Gilbertese: wiki
- Gothic: 𐍅𐌹𐌺𐍉 (wiko) f
- Greek: εβδομάδα (el) (evdomáda) f, επταήμερο (el) (eptaímero) n
- Guaraní: arapokõindy
- Guernésiais: s'môine f
- Gujarati: અઠવાડીયું (gu) (aThavaDiyun) n
- Haitian Creole: semèn
- Hawaiian: pule
- Hebrew: שבוע (he) (shavúa) m
- Hindi: हफ़्ता (hi) (haftā) m, सप्ताह (hi) (saptāh) m
- Hungarian: hét (hu)
- Icelandic: vika (is) f
- Ido: semano (io)
- Inari Sami: okko
- Indonesian: minggu (id)
- Interlingua: septimana (ia)
- Irish: seachtain (ga) f
- Italian: settimana (it) f
- Japanese: 週 (ja) (しゅう, shū), 週間 (ja) (しゅうかん, shūkan)
- Jèrriais: s'maine f
- Kashubian: tidzéń (csb) m
- Khmer: អាទិត្យ (km) (ādteut)
- Korean: 주 (ko) (ju) (週 (ko))
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: حهفته (ku)
- Lao: ອາທິດ (lo)
- Latgalian: nedeļa f
- Latin: hebdomas (la) f, septimāna (la) f
- Latvian: nedēļa (lv) f
- Limburgish: waek (li)
- Lithuanian: savaitė (lt) f
- Livonian: nädīļ
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- Lower Sorbian: tyźeń m
- Luganda: sabbiiti
- Luxembourgish: Woch (lb) f
- Macedonian: седмица (mk) (sédmica) f, недела (mk) (nédela) f
- Malay: minggu (ms)
- Malayalam: ആഴ്ച (ml) (aazhcha)
- Maltese: ġimgħa (mt)
- Manx: shiaghtin (gv)
- Maori: wiki (mi)
- Marathi: आठवडा (mr) (ātthvadā)
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Navajo: damį́įgo, damóo
- Neapolitan: semana f
- Northern Sami: vahkku
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: uke (nb) c
- Nynorsk: veke (nn) f
- Novial: semane
- Occitan: setmana (oc) f
- Ojibwe: anami'e-giizhik
- Old French: semeine f
- Ossetian: къуыри (khuyrí)
- Papiamentu: siman
- Persian: هفته (fa) (hafte) m
- Polish: tydzień (pl) m
- Portuguese: semana (pt) f
- Quechua: simana (qu)
- Romanian: săptămână (ro) f
- Romansch: emna (rm) f
- Russian: неделя (ru) (nedélja) f
- Samoan: vaiaso (sm)
- Sardinian: chída (sc) f
- Scots: seachdain
- Scottish Gaelic: seachdain (gd) f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: седмица (sh) f, недеља (sh) f, тједан (sh) m
- Roman: sedmica (sh) f, nedelja (sh) f, tjedan (sh) m
- Sinhalese: සතිය (si) (satiya)
- Skolt Sami: neä´ttel
- Slovak: týždeň (sk) m
- Slovene: téden (sl) m
- Spanish: semana (es) f
- Swahili: wiki (sw)
- Swedish: vecka (sv) c
- Tagalog: linggo (tl), semana (tl)
- Tahitian: hepetoma
- Taos: tumį́ku
- Tarantino: sumáne f
- Tatar: атна (tt) (atna)
- Telugu: వారము (te) (vaaramu)
- Thai: สัตวาร (th) (sàt waan), สัปดาห์ (th) (sàp daa), อาทิตย์ (th) (aa thīt)
- Tibetan: བདུན་ཕྲག (bo) (dün-thak)
- Tok Pisin: wik (tpi)
- Tswana: beke (tn)
- Turkish: hafta (tr)
- Tuvan: чеди хонук (čedi khonuk), неделя (nedelja)
- Udi: шаматӏ
- Ukrainian: тиждень (uk) (týžden’) m
- Urdu: ہفتہ (ur) (haftā) m, سپتاہ (ur) (saptāh) m
- Uyghur: ھەپتە (ug) (hepte)
- Venda: vhege
- Vietnamese: tuần (vi)
- Volapük: vig (vo)
- Welsh: wythnos (cy)
- West Frisian: wike (fy) c
- Wolof: ayubés (wo), besboai (wo)
- Xhosa: veki (xh)
- Yao: ci-juma
- Yiddish: וואָך (yi) (vokh)
- Zulu: iviki (zu)
- ǃXóõ: bìikì
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Afrikaans [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Dutch week.
week (plural weke)
- week
Pronunciation [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
From Middle Dutch weke, from Old Dutch *wika, from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *weyg- (“to bend, wind, turn, yield”). Compare English week, West Frisian wike, German Woche.
week f (plural weken, diminutive weekje)
- week
Derived terms [edit]
Descendants [edit]
Etymology 2 [edit]
From Old Dutch *wēk, from Proto-Germanic *waikwaz. Compare English and West Frisian weak, German weich.
Adjective [edit]
week (comparative weker, superlative weekst)
- soft, tender, fragile
- weak, gentle, weakhearted
Declension [edit]
Derived terms [edit]
Antonyms [edit]
week
- first-person singular present indicative of weken
- imperative of weken
Etymology 3 [edit]
week
- singular past indicative of wijken
Anagrams [edit]
ISO 8601 on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:ISO 8601
