Monday

English

Etymology

From Middle English Monday, Monenday, from Old English mōnandæġ (“day of the moon”), from Proto-West Germanic *mānini dag, a calque (interpretātiō germānica) of Latin diēs Lūnae, equivalent to Moon +‎ day. See also Japanese 月曜日 (“Moon's day”).

Cognates

Compare Scots Monanday (“Monday”), Yola Mondei (“Monday”), Saterland Frisian Moundai (“Monday”), West Frisian moandei (“Monday”), Alemannic German meintog, miantag, méntag, mìntàg, mäntag, Määntig (“Monday”), Bavarian Monda, Mondåg, montach, monti (“Monday”), Cimbrian matak, menta, méentag (“Monday”), Dutch maandag (“Monday”), German Montag (“Monday”), German Low German Maandag (“Monday”), Luxembourgish Méindeg (“Monday”), Mòcheno ma'ta (“Monday”), Pennsylvania German Mundaag, Muundaag (“Monday”), Vilamovian möntaog (“Monday”), West Flemish moandag (“Monday”), Yiddish מאָנטיק (montik, “Monday”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål mandag (“Monday”), Faroese mánadagur (“Monday”), Icelandic mánudagur (“Monday”), Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish måndag (“Monday”), Finnish maanantai (“Monday”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʌn.deɪ/, /ˈmʌn.di/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ʌndeɪ, -ʌndi
• Hyphenation: Mon‧day

Noun

Monday (plural Mondays)

2. The second day of the week in many religious traditions, and the first day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm. It follows Sunday and precedes Tuesday.

   Synonym: (Quakerism) Second Day

   • 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.

   • 2021 December 13, Amir Vera, “Louisville detective who fatally shot Breonna Taylor is appealing his termination from the police department”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     An LMPD Board Notice of Hearing states part of Cosgrove’s hearings took place in November. The second half of his hearing is set to begin Monday and end Wednesday.

Synonyms

• Mon, Mon. (abbreviations); washing day (UK historical)

Symbols

• M, Mo
• ☽, ☾ (archaic)

Hypernyms

• day

Hyponyms

• Ash Monday
• bare minimum Monday
• Black Monday
• Bloody Monday
• blue Monday
• Clean Monday
• Collop Monday
• Cyber Monday
• Ducking Monday
• Easter Monday
• Fat Monday
• Green Monday
• Handsel Monday
• Hock Monday
• Holy Monday
• Meal Monday
• Pentecost Monday
• Pure Monday
• Rope Monday
• Saint Monday
• Selection Monday
• Shrove Monday
• Trinity Monday
• Wet Monday
• Whit Monday
• Whitsun Monday

Derived terms

• Gang-Monday
• Monday Club
• Monday demonstrations
• Monday disease
• Monday effect
• Monday fever
• Monday hammer
• Mondayise
• Mondayish
• Mondayitis
• Mondayize
• Mondayman
• Monday-morning
• Monday-morning quarterback
• Monday pops
• Mondays
• Plough-Monday
• Plow-Monday
• Saturday-to-Monday
• Smonday
• what wins on Sunday sells on Monday
• Whit-Monday

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: munde
• Tok Pisin: Mande
• → Maori: Mane
• → Tahitian: Monite
• →⇒ Fijian: siga Monite

Translations

day of the week

• Abkhaz: ашәахьа (aŝʷaxʲa)
• Adyghe: блыпэ (bləpɛ)
• Afar: itlén
• Afrikaans: Maandag (af)
• Akan: Dwoadda
• Alabama: nihtàllo inníhta
• Albanian: e hënë (sq) f
• Alutiiq: Pekyun
• American Sign Language: M@Side-PalmBack CirclesHoriz
• Amharic: ሰኞ (säño)
• Arabic: الْاِثْنَيْن m (al-iṯnayn), يَوْم الْاِثْنَيْن m (yawm al-iṯnayn)

  Egyptian Arabic: الاتنين m (letnēn)

  Gulf Arabic: الاثنين m (il-aṯnēn)

  Hijazi Arabic: الاثنين m (al-itnēn)

• Armenian: երկուշաբթի (hy) (erkušabtʻi)

  Old Armenian: երկշաբաթի (erkšabatʻi)

• Aromanian: Luni f, luni f
• Assamese: সোমবাৰ (xümbar)
• Asturian: llunes (ast) m
• Atikamekw: ockorkananiwon
• Avar: итни (itni)
• Azerbaijani: bazar ertəsi (az)
• Bashkir: дүшәмбе (düşəmbe)
• Basque: astelehen (eu), ilen (eu)
• Bats: ცჰ̡ანა̄ (ch̡anā)
• Belarusian: панядзе́лак (be) m (panjadzjélak)
• Bengali: সোমবার (bn) (śōmbar)
• Blackfoot: issikatoyiiksistsiko
• Breton: Lun (br) m
• Buginese: senneng
• Bulgarian: понеде́лник (bg) m (ponedélnik)
• Burmese: တနင်္လာ (my) (ta.nangla)
• Catalan: dilluns (ca) m
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⵔⵉⵎ (arim)
• Central Dusun: Tontolu
• Chechen: оршот (oršot)
• Cherokee: ᎤᎾᏙᏓᏉᏅᎯ (unadodaquonvhi)
• Chichewa: Lolemba
• Chickasaw: Nittak Ammo'na'
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 星期一 (sing¹ kei⁴ jat¹), 禮拜一 / 礼拜一 (lai⁵ baai³ jat¹), 周一 (zau¹ jat¹)

  Dungan: щинчийи (xinčiyi), дўшанбэ (dwšanbe), либэйи (libeyi)

  Hokkien: 禮拜一 / 礼拜一 (lé-pài-it), 拜一 (zh-min-nan) (pài-it)

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

• Chuukese: Sarifan
• Chuvash: тунтикун (tunt̬ik̬un)
• Classical Nahuatl: lunes, ic ōmilhuitl semana
• Coptic:

  Bohairic: Ⲡⲓⲥⲛⲁⲩ (Pisnau)

• Cornish: Lun, de Lun, dy'Lun
• Corsican: luni (co)
• Crimean Tatar: bazarertesi
• Czech: pondělí (cs) n
• Dakota: Aŋpetutokaheya
• Danish: mandag (da) c
• Dhivehi: ހޯމަ (hōma)
• Dutch: maandag (nl) m
• Dzongkha: མིག་དམར (mig dmar)
• Erzya: атяньчи (aťańči), пондельник (pondelnik)
• Esperanto: lundo (eo)
• Estonian: esmaspäev (et)
• Extremaduran: lunis
• Farefare: Atẽnɛ
• Faroese: mánadagur (fo) m
• Fijian: siga Monite
• Finnish: maanantai (fi)
• French: lundi (fr) m
• Friulian: lunis
• Fula:

  Adlam: 𞤚𞤫𞤲𞤭𞤲, 𞤀𞥄𞤩𞤵𞤲'𞤣𞤫

  Latin: Tènin, Aaɓunde

• Galician: luns (gl) m, segunda feira (gl) f
• Georgian: ორშაბათი (ka) (oršabati)
• German: Montag (de) m

  Alemannic German: mondaag m

• Gilbertese: Moanibong
• Greek: Δευτέρα (el) f (Deftéra)
• Greenlandic: Ataasinngorneq (kl)
• Guerrero Amuzgo: luñè
• Gujarati: સોમવાર (gu) m (somvār)
• Gwich'in: drin tł’ęę
• Haitian Creole: lendi
• Hausa: Litinin (ha)
• Hawaiian: Pōʻakahi
• Hebrew: יוֹם שֵׁנִי (he) m (yom shení), יוֹם ב׳ m (yom bet)
• Hiligaynon: Lunes
• Hindi: सोमवार (hi) m (somvār), चन्द्रवार (hi) m (candravār), सोम (hi) m (som), इंदुवार (hi) m (induvār), पीर (hi) m (pīr)
• Hungarian: hétfő (hu)
• Iban: Hari Satu
• Icelandic: mánudagur (is) m
• Ido: lundio (io)
• Indonesian: Senin (id)
• Ingrian: esmessarki, ensipäivä, maantaki (dialectal)
• Ingush: оршот (oršot)
• Interlingua: lunedi (ia)
• Irish: Luan (ga) m
• Italian: lunedì (it) m
• Japanese: 月曜日 (ja) (げつようび, getsuyōbi), 月曜 (ja) (げつよう, getsuyō)
• Javanese: ꦱꦼꦤꦺꦤ꧀ (Senèn)
• Kalmyk: сарң өдр (sarñ ödr)
• Kannada: ಸೋಮವಾರ (kn) (sōmavāra)
• Karelian: ezmäinargi
• Kashmiri: ژٔنٛدرٕوار (ks) (ċạndrụvār)
• Kashubian: pòniedzôłk (csb) m
• Kazakh: дүйсенбі (kk) (düisenbı)
• Khmer: ថ្ងៃច័ន្ទ (km) (thngay can), ថ្ងៃចន្ទ (thngay can)
• Klamath-Modoc: lobiini
• Kongo: Lumbu kia ntete
• Korean: 월요일(月曜日) (ko) (woryoil), 월요(月曜) (ko) (woryo)
• Kumyk: итнингюн (itniñün)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: دووشەم (dûşem), دووشەمە (dûşeme)

  Northern Kurdish: duşem (ku)

• Kyrgyz: дүйшөмбү (ky) (düyşömbü)
• Ladin: lunesc m
• Lakota: Aŋpétu Tȟokáhe, Aŋpétu Tȟokáheya
• Lao: ວັນຈັນ (lo) (wan chan), ຈັນ (chan)
• Latin: diēs Lūnae (la) f, fēria secunda f (ecclesiastical)
• Latvian: pirmdiena (lv) f
• Laz: თუთაჩხა (tutaçxa)
• Lezgi: ислен (islen)
• Limburgish: maondig (li)
• Lithuanian: pirmadienis (lt) m
• Livonian: ežžõmpǟva
• Lombard: lunedi
• Louisiana Creole French: lundi, lindi
• Low German:

  German Low German: Maandag (nds) m, Maondag (nds) m

• Lü: ᦞᧃᦶᦈᧃ (vanṫsaen)
• Luganda: Kazooba, Bbalaza
• Luxembourgish: Méinden (lb) m, Méindeg (lb) m
• Macedonian: понеделник (mk) m (ponedelnik)
• Makasar: senneng
• Malay:

  Jawi: اثنين, ثنين, هاري ساتو (Sabah, Singapore)

  Rumi: Isnin (ms), Senin (ms), Senayan (ms), Hari Satu (ms) (Sabah, Singapore)

• Maltese: it-Tnejn m
• Manchu: ᠪᡳᠶᠠ
  ᡠᠰᡳᠩᡤᡳ (biya usinggi)
• Manx: Jelune
• Maori: Mane, Rātahi, Rāhina
• Marathi: सोमवार (mr) m (somvār)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: шочмо (šočmo), арнявуй (arńavuj)

  Western Mari: шачмы (šačmy)

• Mauritian Creole: lindi
• Mingrelian: თუთაშხა (tutašxa)
• Mirandese: segunda-feira f
• Mizo: Thawhṭanni
• Mòcheno: ma'ta m
• Mokilese: nioahd
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: даваа (mn) (davaa) (written), нэг дэх өдөр (neg dex ödör) (spoken), гарагийн нэг (garagiin neg) (China)

  Mongolian: ᠳᠠᠸᠠ (dawa), ᠨᠢᠭᠡ
  ᠳᠡᠬᠢ
  ᠡᠳᠦᠷ (nige deki edür), ᠭᠠᠷᠠᠭ ᠦᠨ
  ᠨᠢᠭᠡ (ɣarag-ün nige)

• Moore: tẽnɛ
• Navajo: Damį́įgo Biiskání
• Neapolitan: lunnerì, lunnedì
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Ngazidja Comorian: mfumdraru
• Norman: Lundi m
• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: mundai

  Mooring: moundi

  Sylt: Mondai

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mandag m

  Nynorsk: måndag (nn) m

• Occitan: diluns (oc) m
• Odia: ସୋମବାର (somabāra), ଚନ୍ଦ୍ରବାର (candrabāra)
• Ojibwe: ishkwaa-anamaʼe-giizhigad, nitam-anokii-giizhigad
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: понєдѣльникъ m (ponedělĭnikŭ)

• Old English: mōnandæġ m
• Old Norse: mánudagr m
• Old Prussian: panadīli f
• Oromo: Wiixata
• Ossetian:

  Digor: авдисӕр (avdisær)

  Iron: къуырисӕр (k’°yrisær)

• Ottoman Turkish: پازار ایرتسی (pazar ertesi)
• Pannonian Rusyn: пондзелок m (pondzelok)
• Papiamentu: djaluna
• Paraguayan Guarani: ^{(please verify)} arakõi (gn)
• Pashto: دوشنبه (dōšanbe), دوشنبې (ps) (dōšanbe)
• Pennsylvania German: Moondaag m, Mundaag m, Muundaag m
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: دوشَنْبِه (došanbe)

• Plautdietsch: Mondach m
• Polish: poniedziałek (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: segunda-feira (pt) f, segunda (pt) f

  Old Galician-Portuguese: lũes m

• Punjabi: ਸੋਮਵਾਰ (pa) (somvār)
• Quechua: killachaw
• Romagnol: lôn m
• Romani: luj f, o nevo kurko m
• Romanian: luni (ro) f
• Romansch: glindesdi m, lündeschdi m
• Russian: понеде́льник (ru) m (ponedélʹnik)
• Rwanda-Rundi: Kwambere
• Sami:

  Inari: vuossargâ

  Lule: mánnodahka

  Northern: vuossárga, mánnodat (in Sweden)

  Skolt: vuõssargg

  Skolt Sami: vuõssargg, vuõsargg

  Southern: måanta

• Samoan: Aso Gafua
• Sanskrit: सोमवार (sa) m (somavāra)
• Sardinian: lunis m
• Scots: Monanday
• Scottish Gaelic: Diluain (gd) m
• Semai: Senayan
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: понедељак (sh) m, понедјељак m

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

• Seychellois Creole: lendi
• Sherpa: གཟའ་ཟླ་བ (gza' zla ba)
• Shona: Muvhuro
• Sicilian: luni (scn) m, luneddì m, lunnidì m, lunidìa (scn) m
• Sindhi: سُومَرُ (sd) (sūmaru), سُومارُ (sūmāru)
• Sinhalese: සඳුදා (si) (saⁿdudā)
• Slovak: pondelok (sk) m
• Slovene: ponedéljek (sl) m
• Somali: isniin
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: pónjeźele n

  Upper Sorbian: póndźela f

• Sotho: Mantaha (st)
• Spanish: lunes (es) m
• Sranan Tongo: munde
• Svan: დო̈შდიშ (döšdiš)
• Swahili: Jumatatu
• Swedish: måndag (sv) c
• Tabasaran: итин (itin)
• Tagalog: Lunes (tl), 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) (wan jan), จันทร์ (th) (jan)
• Tibetan: གཟའ་ཟླ་བ (gza' zla ba)
• Tok Pisin: mande
• Tongan: Monite
• Tswana: mosupologo
• Tumbuka: Mande
• Turkish: pazartesi (tr)
• Turkmen: duşenbe, başgün
• Udmurt: вордӥськон (vordiśkon)
• Ukrainian: понеді́лок (uk) m (ponedílok)
• Urdu: پِیر (ur) m (pīr), سومْوار (ur) m (somvār), دو شَن٘بَہ m (do śamba)
• Uyghur: دۈشەنبە (düshenbe)
• Uzbek: dushanba (uz)
• Venetan: luni (vec) m
• Vietnamese: thứ hai (vi), thứ Hai (vi)
• Volapük: mudel (vo), telüdel, mundel
• Walloon: londi (wa) f, dilon (wa)
• Welsh: dydd Llun (cy) m
• West Frisian: moandei (fy) c
• Winnebago: Hąąpcek
• Wolof: Altine
• Xhosa: uMvulo
• Yakut: бэнидиэнньик (benidienňik)
• Yiddish: מאָנטיק (yi) m (montik)
• Yoruba: ọjọ́ Ajé
• Yup'ik: Pekyun
• Zazaki: dışeme (diq), berarek (diq)
• Zulu: uMsombuluko

Adverb

Monday (not comparable)

1. (US, Canada, informal in UK) On Monday.

   We've worked out the schedule for Easter week: We'll be shopping Monday […]

Translations

on Monday

• Dutch: 's maandags (nl)
• Esperanto: lunde
• Estonian: esmaspäeval
• Finnish: maanantaina (fi)
• French: lundi (fr)
• Galician: o luns
• Georgian: ორშაბათს (oršabats)
• German: Montag (de), am Montag
• Hungarian: hétfőn (hu)
• Irish: Dé Luain (ga)
• Italian: lunedì (it)
• Khmer: ថ្ងៃច័ន្ទ (km) (thngai chan)
• Korean: 월요일에 (woryoir-e)
• Latvian: pirmdien
• Lithuanian: pirmadienis (lt)
• Macedonian: во понеделник (vo ponedelnik), понеделнички (ponedelnički)
• Maltese: nhar it-Tnejn
• Manx: Jelune
• Marathi: सोमवारी (somvārī)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: шочмын (šočmyn)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: på mandag

  Nynorsk: på måndag

• Pennsylvania German: Muundaag
• Polish: w poniedziałek
• Portuguese: segunda-feira (pt), segunda (pt)
• Romanian: luni (ro), lunea (ro)
• Russian: в понеде́льник (v ponedélʹnik)
• Scottish Gaelic: Di-luain m
• Slovak: v pondelok
• Swedish: på (sv) måndag (sv), på måndagen
• Turkish: pazartesi (tr)
• Volapük: mudelo (vo), telüdelo, mundelo
• Welsh: ddydd Llun

See also

• days of the week (appendix): Sunday · Monday · Tuesday · Wednesday · Thursday · Friday · Saturday ^[edit]

Anagrams

• Aymond, dynamo, dynamo-

Middle English

Alternative forms

• Monenday, Monedai, Moneday, moneday

Etymology

Inherited from Old English mōnandæġ, from Proto-West Germanic *mānini dag; equivalent to mone +‎ day.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoːnˌdæi̯/, /ˈmunˌdæi̯/, /ˈmoːnə(n)ˌdæi̯/, /ˈmunə(n)ˌdæi̯/

Noun

Monday (plural *Mondayes)

1. Monday (second day of the week)

Descendants

• English: Monday (see there for further descendants)

  Ottawa Valley: Munde

  West Riding: Monda

• Middle Scots: Mononday, Munnonday
  • Scots: Monanday, Monday
• Yola: Mondei

References

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

See also

• days of the week: wykedayes (appendix): Sonday · Monday · Tewesday · Wednesday · Thursday · Friday · Saterday ^[edit]