Thursday

English

Etymology

From Middle English Thursday, Thuresday, from Old English þursdæġ, þuresdæġ (“Thursday”), possibly from a contraction of þunresdæġ (“Thursday”, literally “Thor's day”), or of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse þórsdagr; all from Proto-West Germanic *Þunras dag (“day of the thunder god”). Compare West Frisian tongersdei, German Low German Dunnersdag, Dutch donderdag, German Donnerstag, Danish torsdag. More at thunder, day.

A calque of Latin diēs Iovis (diēs Jovis), via an association (interpretātiō germānica) of the god Thor with the Roman god of thunder Jove (Jupiter).

Pronunciation

• (UK)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈθɜːz.deɪ/, /-.di/

    • Audio (Received Pronunciation):

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  • (Northumbria) IPA^(key): /ˈθɔːz.də/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈθɝz.deɪ/, /-.di/ (enPR: thûrzˈ -dā, -dē)

  • Audio (General American):

    (file)

• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈθɘːz.dæɪ̯/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈθɵːz.dæe/
• Hyphenation: Thurs‧day
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)zdeɪ, -ɜː(ɹ)zdi

Noun

Thursday (plural Thursdays)

2. The fifth day of the week in many religious traditions, and the fourth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; it follows Wednesday and precedes Friday.

   Synonym: (Quakerism) Fifth Day

   • c. 1591–1595 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] Romeo and Juliet. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, published 1597, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:

     Cap[ulet]. […] If vve ſhould reuell much, therefore vve vvill haue / Some halfe a dozen frends and make no more adoe. / But vvhat ſay you to Thurſday. / Par[is]. My Lorde I vviſhe that Thurſday vvere to morrovv.

   • 1992, Toni Morrison, Jazz, Vintage (2016), page 50:

     But for satisfaction pure and deep, for balance in pleasure and comfort, Thursday canʼt be beat.

   • 2024 July 25, Devan Cole, “Justice Elena Kagan says Supreme Court’s code of conduct needs an enforcement plan. Takeaways from her wide-ranging comments.”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Justice Elena Kagan on Thursday defended the code of conduct the Supreme Court created last year, but conceded there needs to be a way to enforce the rules for it to be more effective.

Synonyms

• Thu, Thu., Thur, Thur., Thurs, Thurs. (abbreviations)

Symbols

• T, Th, R, Θ
• ♃ (archaic)

Hypernyms

• day

Hyponyms

• Ascension Thursday
• Black Thursday
• Bounds Thursday
• Carnival Thursday
• Chare Thursday
• Chewidden Thursday
• Covenant Thursday
• dirty tricks Thursday
• dress-up Thursday
• Easter Thursday
• Fat Thursday
• Great and Holy Thursday
• Great Thursday
• Green Thursday
• Hallow Thursday
• Holy Thursday
• Maundy Thursday
• Running Thursday
• Shear Thursday
• Sheer Thursday
• Shore Thursday
• Shorpthursday
• Shorthursday
• Shrove Thursday
• Silver Thursday
• Skire Thursday
• Skis Thursday
• Super Thursday
• Thanksgiving Thursday
• Throwback Thursday
• Thursday of Mysteries
• White Thursday
• Whit Thursday

Derived terms

• Blursday
• Last Thursdayism
• Thursdayish
• Thursday Island
• Thursdayness
• Thursdays (adverb)

Related terms

• Thursday Dinners
• Thursday Island

Translations

day of the week

• Abkhaz: аҧшьаша (apšaŝa)
• Afar: kamiis
• Afrikaans: Donderdag (af)
• Akan: Yawoada
• Alabama: istonóstàaka, nihta istonóstàaka
• Albanian: e enjte
• Alutiiq: Staamiin
• Amharic: ሐሙስ (ḥämus)
• Arabic: الْخَمِيس (ar) m (al-ḵamīs), يَوْم الْخَمِيس m (yawm al-ḵamīs)

  Cypriot Arabic: xmis

  Egyptian Arabic: الخميس m (el-ḵamīs)

• Aragonese: chueves (an)
• Aramaic: חמשבשבא
• Armenian: հինգշաբթի (hy) (hingšabtʻi)

  Old Armenian: հինգշաբաթի (hingšabatʻi)

• Aromanian: gioi (roa-rup)
• Assamese: বৃহস্পতিবাৰ (brihospotibar)
• Asturian: xueves (ast) m
• Avar: хамиз (xamiz)
• Azerbaijani: cümə axşamı (az)
• Bashkir: кесаҙна (kisaðna), кесе аҙна (kisi aðna), кесе йома (kisi yuma)
• Basque: ostegun (eu)
• Bats: ჲივჸა̄ (yivʾā)
• Belarusian: чацве́р m (čacvjér)
• Bengali: বৃহস্পতিবার (bn) (brihośpotibar), বিষ্যুদবার (bn) (biśśudbar)
• Central Bikol: Huwebes (bcl)
• Blackfoot: náámiksistsiko
• Breton: ^{(please verify)} Yaou (br) m, ^{(please verify)} diriaou (br) adverb
• Bulgarian: четвъртък (bg) m (četvărtăk)
• Burmese: ကြာသပတေး (my) (krasa.pa.te:)
• Catalan: dijous (ca) m
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⵎⵀⴰⴷ (amhad)
• Chechen: еара (jeara)
• Cherokee: ᏅᎩᏁ ᎢᎦ (nvgine iga)
• Chichewa: Lachinayi
• Chickasaw: Nittak Ayyoshta'
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 星期四 (sing¹ kei⁴ sei³), 禮拜四 / 礼拜四 (lai⁵ baai³ sei³), 周四 (zau¹ sei³)

  Dungan: щинчисы (xinqisɨ), либэсы (libesɨ), паншанбэ (panšanbe)

  Hokkien: 禮拜四 / 礼拜四 (lé-pài-sù), 拜四 (pài-sù)

  Mandarin: 星期四 (zh) (xīngqīsì), 禮拜四 / 礼拜四 (zh) (lǐbàisì), 周四 (zhōusì)

• Choctaw: Hlʋsti
• Chuukese: Eruanu
• Chuvash: кӗҫнерникун (kĕśnernik̬un)
• Comorian:

  Ngazidja Comorian: yahoa

• Coptic:

  Bohairic Coptic: ⲡⲓⲧⲓⲟⲩ m (pitiou)

  Sahidic Coptic: ⲡϯⲟⲩ m (ptiou)

• Cornish: de Yow, dy'Yow, Yow
• Corsican: ghjovi (co)
• Cree:

  Atikamekw: new kicikaw

• Crimean Tatar: cumaaqşamı
• Czech: čtvrtek (cs) m
• Dakota: Aŋpetuitopa
• Dalmatian: zue
• Danish: torsdag (da) c
• Dutch: donderdag (nl) m
• Dzongkha: པ་སངས (pa sangs)
• Emilian: giovedé m, żòbia f
• Erzya: калоньчи (kalońči), четьверьк (čeťveŕk)
• Esperanto: ĵaŭdo (eo)
• Estonian: neljapäev (et)
• Farefare: Alamisi
• Faroese: hósdagur (fo) m, tórsdagur m
• Fijian: siga Lotulevu
• Finnish: torstai (fi)
• French: jeudi (fr) m
• Frisian:

  North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: tüürsdaai

  Mooring: törsdi

  Sylt: Türsdai

  West Frisian: tongersdei (fy)

• Friulian: joibe
• Galician: xoves (gl) m, quinta feira (gl) f
• Georgian: ხუთშაბათი (ka) (xutšabati)
• German: Donnerstag (de) m
• Gilbertese: Kabong
• Greek: Πέμπτη (el) f (Pémpti)
• Greenlandic: sisamanngorneq
• Guarani:

  Paraguayan Guarani: ^{(please verify)} arapo (gn)

• Gujarati: ગુરુવાર (gu) (guruvār)
• Haitian Creole: jedi
• Hausa: Alhamis (ha)
• Hawaiian: Pōʻahā
• Hebrew: יוֹם חֲמִישִׁי (he) m (yom ḥamishí), יוֹם ה׳ m (yom hē)
• Hiligaynon: Huwebes
• Hindi: गुरुवार (hi) m (guruvār), बृहस्पतिवार (hi) m (bŕhaspativār)
• Hungarian: csütörtök (hu)
• Iban: Hari Empat
• Icelandic: fimmtudagur (is) m
• Ido: jovdio (io)
• Indonesian: Kamis (id)
• Ingrian: neljäspäivä
• Ingush: ера (jera)
• Interlingua: jovedi (ia)
• Irish: Déardaoin (ga) m
• Italian: giovedì (it) m
• Japanese: 木曜日 (ja) (もくようび, mokuyōbi), 木曜 (ja) (もくよう, mokuyō)
• Javanese: please add this translation if you can
• Kalmyk: пүрвә өдр (pürvä ödr)
• Karelian: nelläspäivy
• Kashmiri: برَٛسوار (ks), برٛؠسوار (ks) (bryasvār)
• Kashubian: czwôrtk (csb) m
• Kazakh: бейсенбі (kk) (beysenbi)
• Khmer: ព្រហស្បតិ៍ (km) (prɔhŏəh)
• Kongo: Lumbu kia nya
• Korean: 목요일(木曜日) (ko) (mogyoil), 목요(木曜) (ko) (mogyo)
• Kumyk: хамисгюн (xamisgün)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: پێنجشەم (pêncşem), پێنجشەمە (pêncşeme), پێنجشەممە (ckb) (pêncşemme)

  Northern Kurdish: pêncşemb (ku), pêncşem (ku) f

• Kusaal: alamisi daat
• Kyrgyz: бейшемби (ky) (beyşembi)
• Ladin:

  Badiot: jöbia f

  Fascian: jebia f

  Gherdëina: juebia f

• Lakota: Aŋpétu Tópa
• Lao: ວັນພະຫັດ (lo) (wan pha hat), ພະຫັດ (pha hat)
• Latin: diēs Iovis (la) m or f, diēs Jovis m or f, fēria quinta f (ecclesiastical)
• Latvian: ceturtdiena (lv) f
• Laz: ჩაჩხა (çaçxa)
• Lezgi: хемис (ꭓemis)
• Limburgish: dónjerdig, dónderdig (li)
• Lithuanian: ketvirtadienis (lt) m
• Livonian: neļļõndpǟva
• Lombard: giovedi
• Louisiana Creole: jédi, jèdi
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: donderdag (nds)

  German Low German: Dunnersdag (nds) m, Dunnerdag (nds) m, Dünnersdag m, Dünnerdag m, Dönnerdag m, Dörndag m, Dundersdag m

• Lü: ᦞᧃᦕᧆ (vanṗhad)
• Luganda: Lwakuna
• Luxembourgish: Donneschden (lb) m, Donneschdeg (lb) m
• Macedonian: четврток (mk) m (četvrtok)
• Makasar: kamisi
• Malay:

  Jawi: خميس (ms), هاري امڤت (Sabah, Singapore)

  Rumi: Khamis (ms), Kamis (ms), Hari Empat (ms) (Sabah, Singapore)

• Malayalam: വ്യാഴാഴ്ച (ml) (vyāḻāḻca)
• Maltese: il-Ħamis
• Manchu: ᠮᠣᠣ
  ᡠᠰᡳᠩᡤᡳ (moo usinggi)
• Manx: Jerdein m
• Māori: Tāite, Rāwhā, Rāpare
• Mapudungun: kueve antü
• Marathi: गुरुवार (mr) m (guruvār)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: изарня (izarńa)

• Mauritian Creole: zedi
• Mingrelian: ცაშხა (cašxa)
• Mirandese: quinta-feira
• Mizo: Ningani
• Mòcheno: pfinsta m
• Mokilese: nioapoang
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: дөрөв дэх өдөр (döröv dex ödör), пүрэв (mn) (pürev) (official), гарагийн дөрвөн (garagiin dörvön) (China)

  Mongolian script: ᠳᠦᠷᠪᠡ
  ᠳᠡᠬᠢ
  ᠡᠳᠦᠷ (dürbe deki edür), ᠫᠦᠷᠪᠦ (pürbü), ᠭᠠᠷᠠᠭ ᠦᠨ
  ᠳᠥᠷᠪᠡᠨ (ɣaraɣ-ün dörben)

• Moore: alkamisa, lamusa
• Nahuatl: tezcatlipotōnal
• Navajo: Dį́ʼíjį́ Ndaʼanish
• Neapolitan: gioverì
• Niuean: Aho Tuloto
• Norman: Jeudi m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: torsdag (no) m

• Occitan: dijòus (oc)
• Odia: ଗୁରୁବାର (or) (gurubāra)
• Ojibwe: niiyogiizhigad
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: четврьтъкъ m (četvrĭtŭkŭ)

• Old English: þunresdæġ m
• Old Norse: þórsdagr m
• Oromo: Kamsa
• Ossetian:

  Digor Ossetian: ^{(please verify)} цуппӕрӕн (cuppæræn)

  Iron Ossetian: ^{(please verify)} цыппӕрӕм (cyppæræm)

• Pannonian Rusyn: штварток m (štvartok)
• Papiamentu: djaweps
• Pashto: پنجشنبه (ps) f (panjšanbá), زيارت ورځ f (zyārát wráź)
• Pennsylvania German: Dunnerschdaag
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: پَنْج‌شَنْبِه (panj-šanbe)

• Plautdietsch: Donnadach m
• Polabian: perĕndan m
• Polish: czwartek (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: quinta-feira (pt) f
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਵੀਰਵਾਰ (pa) m (vīrvār)

• Quechua: illapachaw
• Rapa Nui: mahana maha
• Romani: źoj f
• Romanian: joi (ro) f
• Romansh: gievgia, gövgia
• Russian: четве́рг (ru) m (četvérg)
• Rwanda-Rundi: Kwakane
• Sami:

  Inari Sami: tuorâstâh

  Kildin Sami: ня̄льянтпе̄ййв (njāl’jantpiejjv)

  Northern Sami: duorastat

  Skolt Sami: nelljdpeiˊvv

• Samoan: Aso Tofi
• Sanskrit: गुरुवार (sa) m (guruvāra)
• Sardinian: giovia f, giobia, giòia, jòbia
• Scots: Fuirsday
• Scottish Gaelic: Diardaoin (gd) m
• Semai: Kamis
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: четвр́так (sh) m

  Latin: četvŕtak (sh) m

• Seychellois Creole: zedi
• Shona: China
• Sicilian: jovi (scn), jovidìa (scn), juvirì (scn), giuvidì (scn), iuvirì (scn), juovi (scn), jovirìa (scn), iovi (scn)
• Sindhi: خَميِسَ (sd) (xamyisa), وِسپَتِ (vispati), وِرَسپَتِ (viraspati)
• Sinhalese: බ්‍රහස්‍පතින්‍දා (brahaspatindā)
• Slovak: štvrtok (sk) m
• Slovene: četŕtek (sl) m
• Somali: khamiis
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: stwórtk m

  Upper Sorbian: štwórtk m

• Sotho: Labone (st)
• Southern Altai: четверг (četverg)
• Spanish: jueves (es) m
• Sranan Tongo: fodewroko
• Svan: ცა̈̄შ (cǟš)
• Swahili: Alhamisi
• Swazi: Lesíne
• Swedish: torsdag (sv) c
• Tabasaran: хамис (ꭓamis)
• Tagalog: Huwebes
• Tahitian: mahana maha
• Tajik: панҷшанбе (tg) (panjšanbe)
• Tamil: வியாழன் (ta) (viyāḻaṉ), வியாழக்கிழமை (ta) (viyāḻakkiḻamai)
• Taos: xwábasi
• Tarantino: sciuvedìe
• Tatar: пәнҗешәмбе (tt) (pänceşämbe), (colloquial) атнакич (atnakiç)
• Telugu: గురువారము (te) (guruvāramu)
• Tetum: loron-kinta
• Thai: วันพฤหัสบดี (th) (wan prʉ́-hàt-sà-bɔɔ-dii), พฤหัสบดี (th) (prʉ́-hàt-sà-bɔɔ-dii)
• Tibetan: གཟའ་ཕུར་བུ (gza' phur bu)
• Tigrinya: ሓሙስ (ḥamus)
• Tok Pisin: Fonde (tpi)
• Tokelauan: Ahotofi
• Tongan: Tu'apulelulu
• Tswana: Labone (tn)
• Turkish: perşembe (tr), cuma akşamı (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: پرشنبه (perşembe)

• Turkmen: penşenbe, sogapgün
• Udmurt: покчиарня (pokćiarńa)
• Ukrainian: четве́р (uk) m (četvér)
• Urdu: جُمِعْرات (ur) f (jumi'rāt), پَن٘ج شَن٘بَہ m (pañj śamba), خمیس (xamīs)
• Uyghur: پەيشەنبە (peyshenbe)
• Uzbek: payshanba (uz)
• Vai: ꕉꔤꕆꕢ (Aimísa)
• Venetan: zioba m, xòbia (vec), zoba, đóbia
• Vietnamese: thứ năm (vi)
• Vilamovian: dunyśtaog
• Volapük: dödel (vo), lulüdel
• Walloon: djudi (wa), diyou (wa)
• Welsh: dydd Iau (cy) m
• Winnebago: Hąąp Hijopahą
• Wolof: Alxames
• Xhosa: uLwesine
• Yakan: Hammis
• Yakut: чэппиэр (čeppier)
• Yiddish: דאָנערשטיק (yi) m (donershtik)
• Yup'ik: Cetamirin
• Zazaki: pojşeme
• Zulu: uLwesine

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Swahili: ^{(please verify)} alahamisi (sw)
• Tibetan: ^{(please verify)} གཟའ་ཕུར་པུ (gza' phur pu)

Adverb

Thursday (not comparable)

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

Translations

on Thursday

• Dutch: donderdags (nl), 's donderdags (nl) (Belgium), op donderdag
• Esperanto: ĵaŭde
• Faroese: hósdagin, tórsdagin
• Finnish: torstaina
• French: le jeudi
• Galician: o xoves
• Georgian: ხუთშაბათს (xutšabats)
• German: am Donnerstag
• Irish: Déardaoin (ga)
• Japanese: 木曜日に (もくようびに, mokuyōbi ni)
• Latvian: ceturtdien
• Manx: Jerdein
• Portuguese: na quinta-feira
• Romanian: joi (ro), joia (ro), joia (ro)
• Spanish: el jueves
• Turkish: perşembe (tr)
• Volapük: dödelo, lulüdelo
• Welsh: ddydd Iau

See also

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

Middle English

Alternative forms

• Thoresday, Thuresday, Thurysday, Þursday

Etymology

From Old English þuresdæġ, þursdæġ, late form of þunresdæġ, from Proto-West Germanic *Þunras dag. Possibly influenced by Old Norse þórsdagr, though compare the development of early Middle English are from ānre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθur(i)zdæi̯/
• IPA^(key): /ˈθyːrzdæi̯/ (Northern)

Noun

Thursday

1. Thursday (fifth day of the week)

Derived terms

• Schyre Thursday

Descendants

• English: Thursday
• Middle Scots: Thursday, Thurisday
  • Scots: Fuirsday, Foorsday
• Yola: Thorsdei

References

• “Thūres-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]