weekday

See also: week-day

English

Alternative forms

• week-day (archaic)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English wykeday, from Old English wicdæġ (“weekday”), from Proto-West Germanic *wikadag, from Proto-Germanic *wikadagaz (“weekday”). By surface analysis, compound of week +‎ day. Compare West Frisian wikedei (“weekday”), Dutch weekdag (“weekday”), German Low German Wekendag (“weekday”), German Wochentag (“weekday”), Danish ugedag (“weekday”), Swedish veckodag (“weekday”), Norwegian ukedag (“weekday”), Faroese vikudagur (“weekday”), Icelandic vikudagur (“weekday”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwiːkdeɪ̯/, [ˈwɪi̯kdeɪ̯]

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈwiːkdæ̝ɪ̯/, [ˈwɪi̯kdæ̝ɪ̯]
• Rhymes: -iːkdeɪ
• Hyphenation: week‧day

Noun

weekday (plural weekdays)

1. Any individual day of the week, except those which form the weekend or the single weekly day off; that is:
   1. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, but not Saturday or Sunday.
      • 2019 October, Tony Miles, Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, in Modern Railways, page 58:

        The Nottingham to Skegness route and Robin Hood line from Nottingham to Mansfield and Worksop will continue with their current weekday patterns; linked to the latter is EMR's commitment to carry out a feasibility study into operating Robin Hood trains to Ollerton.

      • 2026 January 21, Philip Haigh, “First course of action: changes in the capital”, in RAIL, number 1053, page 22:

        TfL reckons that London Overground attracts annual ridership of 185 million from a network of 113 stations and 1,600 weekday services, delivered with an ARL staff numbering 1,500.

   2. (Islam) Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, but not Friday.
   3. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday, but not Sunday. (e.g. in Vietnam)
   4. (Judaism) Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, but not Saturday.
2. (now rare) Any day of the week (Monday through Sunday).

Synonyms

• workday
• working day
• (day on which work is done in legal and official usage): business day

Related terms

• week
• weeknight

Translations

day of the week, excluding weekends

• Arabic: يَوْم عَمَل m (yawm ʕamal)
• Armenian: աշխատանքային օր (ašxatankʻayin ōr)
• Basque: astegun (eu)
• Belarusian: бу́дні дзень m (búdni dzjenʹ), працо́ўны дзень m (pracówny dzjenʹ)
• Breton: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: де́лничен ден m (délničen den)
• Catalan: dia feiner, dia laborable
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 平日 (zh) (píngrì), 平常日 (zh) (píngchángrì)

• Czech: všední den (cs) m, pracovní den (cs) m
• Danish: hverdag (da) c, arbejdsdag (da) c (work day), almindelig ugedag c (uncommon)
• Dutch: werkdag (nl) m, weekdag (nl) m
• Erzya: такойчи (takojči)
• Esperanto: labortago, semajntago
• Estonian: nädalapäev (et)
• Finnish: arkipäivä (fi)
• French: jour de la semaine (fr) m, jour ouvré (fr) m
• Galician: día solto m
• German: Wochentag (de) m, Werktag (de) m, Arbeitstag (de) m
• Greek: καθημερινή (el) f (kathimeriní)
• Hawaiian: lā noa
• Hebrew: יום חול / יוֹם חֹל (he) m (yóm khól)
• Hindi: वार (hi) m (vār), कार्यदिवस m (kāryadivas)
• Hungarian: hétköznap (hu), munkanap (hu)
• Icelandic: vikudagur (is) m
• Indonesian: hari biasa
• Ingrian: arkipäivä
• Irish: lá den tseachtain m
• Italian: giorno feriale (it) m
• Japanese: 平日 (ja) (へいじつ, heijitsu, ひら​び, hirabi), ウィークデー (ja) (wīkudē), 週日 (ja) (しゅうじつ, shūjitsu)
• Kashmiri: وار (vār)
• Korean: 평일(平日) (ko) (pyeong'il), 주중(週中) (jujung)
• Latin: feria
• Latvian: darba dienā f
• Lithuanian: darbo diena f
• Luxembourgish: Wochendag (lb) m
• Macedonian: делник m (delnik)
• Manx: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hverdag (no) m, virkedag m, arbeidsdag (no) m

  Nynorsk: kvardag m, vyrkedag m, yrkedag m

• Ojibwe: anokii-giizhigad
• Old English: wicdæġ m
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: روزِ کاری (ruz-e kâri)

• Plautdietsch: Woakjeldach m
• Polish: dzień powszedni (pl) m, dzień roboczy (pl) m
• Portuguese: dia de semana m
• Romanian: zi a săptămânii f, zi lucrătoare f
• Russian: рабо́чий день m (rabóčij denʹ), бу́дний день m (búdnij denʹ), бу́дни (ru) m pl (búdni)
• Sami:

  Northern Sami: árga

• Scottish Gaelic: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: všedný deň m, robotný deň m
• Slovene: delavnik m
• Spanish: día de entre semana m , día de entresemana m, dia laborable m, día de diario m
• Swedish: vardag (sv) c, arbetsdag (sv) c
• Tajik: рӯзи кор (rüz-i kor)
• Thai: วันทำงาน (wan-tam-ngaan)
• Turkish: hafta içi (tr), hafta arası (tr)
• Ukrainian: бу́день (uk) m (búdenʹ), бу́дній день m (búdnij denʹ), робо́чий день m (robóčyj denʹ)
• Urdu: ^{(please verify)} وار m (vār)
• Uzbek: oddiy kun, ish kuni, begim kuni
• Vietnamese: ngày thường (vi)
• Welsh: dydd o'r wythnos m

References

• American Heritage Dictionary
• “weekday”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present.
• “weekday”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.