monthly

English

Alternative forms

• mon. (abbreviation)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʌnθli/

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• Rhymes: -ʌnθli

Etymology 1

From month +‎ -ly (adjectival suffix), perhaps via Middle English *monethly (attested only adverbially), from Old English mōnaþlīċ (“monthly”), from Proto-West Germanic *mānōþlīk, from Proto-Germanic *mēnōþlīkaz (“monthly”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian moundelk (“monthly”), German monatlich (“monthly”), Danish månedlig (“monthly”), Swedish månatlig (“monthly”), Norwegian Bokmål månedlig (“monthly”), Icelandic mánaðarlegur (“monthly”).

Adjective

monthly (not comparable)

1. Occurring every month.

   It's time give the dog its monthly bath.

   • 2024 June 9, maia arson crimew, “israeli national police found trying to purchase stalkerware”, in maia blog‎^[1]:

     all of these services, including mSpy, function with the same kind of predatory subscription scheme, luring you in with free trials that autorenew as abhorrently expensive monthly or yearly subscriptions. canceling the service requires reaching out to support, so users are typically unable to avoid overrunning the trial.

Derived terms

• half-monthly
• monthly bill
• monthly friend
• monthly meeting
• monthly tugboat
• monthly visitor
• semi-monthly
• thrice-monthly

Translations

occurring every month

• Albanian: mujor (sq)
• Arabic: شَهْرِيّ (šahriyy)
• Armenian: ամսական (hy) (amsakan)
• Assamese: মাহিলি (mahili), মাহেকীয়া (mahekia)
• Basque: hileroko
• Belarusian: штоме́сячны (štomjésjačny)
• Bhojpuri: मासिक (māsik)
• Bulgarian: ежеме́сечен (ežemésečen)
• Burmese: လစဉ် (la.cany)
• Catalan: mensual
• Cebuano: binulan, binuwan
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 每月的 (zh) (měiyuè de)

• Czech: měsíční (cs)
• Dutch: maandelijks (nl)
• Esperanto: monata
• French: mensuel (fr)
• Galician: mensual (gl)
• Georgian: ყოველთვიური (q̇oveltviuri)
• German: monatlich (de)
• Greek: μηνιαίος (el) (miniaíos)

  Ancient Greek: μηνιαῖος (mēniaîos)

• Hindi: मासिक (hi) (māsik)
• Hungarian: havi (hu), havonkénti (hu)
• Irish: míosúil
• Italian: mensile (it), mensuale
• Japanese: 毎月の (ja) (まいげつの, maigetsu no), 毎月の (ja) (まいつきの, maitsuki no)
• Kazakh: айлық (ailyq)
• Korean: 매달의 (ko) (maedarui)
• Latin: mēnstruus, mēnstruālis, mēnsuālis
• Macedonian: месечен m (mesečen)
• Malay: bulanan (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: månedlig

  Nynorsk: månadleg

• Polish: comiesięczny (pl), miesięczny (pl)
• Portuguese: mensal (pt), mensual
• Russian: ежеме́сячный (ru) (ježemésjačnyj)
• Spanish: mensual (es), mensil (es) (disused)
• Swedish: månatlig (sv)
• Thai: ทุกเดือน (túk-dʉʉan), รายเดือน (raai-dʉʉan), ประจำเดือน (th) (bprà-jam-dʉʉan)
• Turkish: aylık (tr)
• Ukrainian: щомі́сячний (ščomísjačnyj)
• Welsh: misol (cy)
• Yiddish: חודשלעך (yi) (khoydeshlekh)

Etymology 2

From Middle English monethly, equivalent to month +‎ -ly (adverbial suffix). Cognate with Saterland Frisian moundelk (“monthly”), Dutch maandelijks (“monthly”), German monatlich (“monthly”), Swedish månatligen (“monthly”).

Adverb

monthly (not comparable)

1. Every month.

   Rent must be paid monthly.

Translations

occurring every month

• Arabic: شَهْرِيًّا (šahriyyan)
• Armenian: ամսական (hy) (amsakan)
• Belarusian: штоме́сяц (štomjésjac), штоме́сячна (štomjésjačna)
• Bulgarian: ежеме́сечно (bg) (ežemésečno)
• Catalan: mensualment (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 按月 (zh) (ànyuè), 每月的 (zh) (měiyuè de)

• Czech: měsíčně (cs)
• Dutch: maandelijks (nl)
• Esperanto: ĉiumonate
• Finnish: kuukausittain (fi)
• French: mensuel (fr), mensuellement (fr)
• Galician: mensualmente (gl)
• Georgian: ყოველთვიურად (q̇oveltviurad)
• German: monatlich (de)
• Hindi: मासिक (hi) (māsik)
• Hungarian: havonta (hu), havonként (hu)
• Indonesian: bulanan (id)
• Interlingua: mensual, mensualmente
• Italian: mensilmente (it)
• Japanese: 毎月 (ja) (まいげつ, maigetsu), 月次 (ja) (げつじ, getsuji), 毎月の (ja) (まいつきの, maitsuki no)
• Kazakh: ай сайын (ai saiyn)
• Korean: 매달의 (ko) (maedarui)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: مانگانە (mangane)

• Malayalam: പ്രതിമാസം (ml) (pratimāsaṁ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: månedlig

  Nynorsk: månadleg

• Polish: miesięcznie (pl), co miesiąc (pl)
• Portuguese: mensalmente
• Romanian: lunar (ro), mensual (ro)
• Russian: ме́сячно (ru) (mésjačno), ежеме́сячно (ru) (ježemésjačno), ежеме́сячный (ru) (ježemésjačnyj)
• Spanish: mensualmente
• Swedish: månadsvis (sv), månatlig (sv)
• Thai: ทุกเดือน (túk-dʉʉan), เดือนละครั้ง (dʉʉan-lá-kráng)
• Turkish: aylık (tr)
• Ukrainian: щомі́сяця (ščomísjacja), щомі́сячно (ščomísjačno)
• Volapük: muliko

Noun

monthly (plural monthlies)

2. A publication that is published once a month.
   • 2009 January 5, Stephanie Clifford, “Prominent Magazines Lose Weight, Shedding Nearly Half Their Ads”, in New York Times‎^[2]:

     Of the 10 monthlies with the worst declines in January, four were Condé Nast magazines: Wired, Architectural Digest, Vogue and Lucky.

3. (euphemistic) The menstrual period.
   • 2008, Monica Dixon, Through Closed Eyes, page 230:

     Katherine assumed she was having her monthly. She could recall times when her own monthly was so intense that it showed on her face.

Synonyms

• every month, each month, mensually

Descendants

• Japanese: マンスリー

Translations

a publication that is published once a month

• Basque: hileroko
• Bulgarian: ме́сечно списа́ние n (mésečno spisánie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 月刊雜誌 / 月刊杂志 (yuèkān zázhì)

• Czech: měsíčník (cs) m
• Dutch: maandblad (nl)
• Finnish: kuukausijulkaisu
• Georgian: ყოველთვიური გამოცემა (q̇oveltviuri gamocema), ყოველთვიური პუბლიკაცია (q̇oveltviuri ṗubliḳacia)
• Hindi: मासपत्रिका f (māspatrikā), मासिक (hi) m (māsik)
• Japanese: 月刊誌 (ja) (げっかんし, gekkanshi)
• Korean: 월간지 (wolganji)
• Macedonian: месечник m (mesečnik)
• Malayalam: മാസിക (ml) (māsika)
• Polish: miesięcznik (pl) m inan
• Russian: ежеме́сячник (ru) m (ježemésjačnik)
• Slovak: mesačník m
• Telugu: మాసపత్రిక (te) (māsapatrika)
• Thai: รายเดือน (raai-dʉʉan)
• Turkish: aylık (tr)
• Vietnamese: nguyệt báo (vi) (newspaper), nguyệt san (vi) (magazine)

(euphemism) the menstrual period

• Bulgarian: менструа́ция f (menstruácija)
• Czech: měsíčky (cs) f pl
• Esperanto: monataĵo
• Finnish: kuukautiset (fi) pl
• Georgian: თვიური (tviuri)
• Polish: miesiączka (pl) f
• Russian: ме́сячные (ru) n pl or f pl (mésjačnyje)
• Thai: ประจำเดือน (th) (bprà-jam-dʉʉan)
• Turkish: aylık (tr)

Derived terms

From adjectivve and/or adverb - same difference, right?

• alt-monthly
• bimonthly
• intermonthly
• intramonthly
• midmonthly
• monthlyish
• nonmonthly
• semimonthly
• submonthly
• trimonthly

See also

• weekly
• daily
• yearly

See also

• Thesaurus:frequency