weekday

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• /ˈwiːkdeɪ̯/
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• [ˈwɪi̯kdeɪ̯]
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• Australian: /ˈwiːkdæ̝ɪ̯/
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• Australian: [ˈwɪi̯kdæ̝ɪ̯]
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• rhymes with -iːkdeɪ
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• CMU ARPABET: W IY1 K D EY2 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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”).

92 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: يَوْم عَمَل (yawm ʕamal) — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Armenian: աշխատանքային օր (ašxatankʻayin ōr) — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Basque: astegun — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Belarusian: бу́дні дзень (búdni dzjenʹ) — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Belarusian: працо́ўны дзень (pracówny dzjenʹ) — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Bulgarian: де́лничен ден (délničen den) — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Catalan: dia feiner — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Catalan: dia laborable — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Chinese Mandarin: 平日 (píngrì) — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Chinese Mandarin: 平常日 (píngchángrì) — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Czech: všední den — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Czech: pracovní den — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Danish: hverdag — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Danish: arbejdsdag — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Danish: almindelig ugedag — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Dutch: werkdag — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Dutch: weekdag — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Erzya: такойчи (takojči) — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Esperanto: labortago — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Esperanto: semajntago — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Estonian: nädalapäev — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Finnish: arkipäivä — day of the week, excluding weekends
• French: jour de la semaine — day of the week, excluding weekends
• French: jour ouvré — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Galician: día solto — day of the week, excluding weekends
• German: Wochentag — day of the week, excluding weekends
• German: Werktag — day of the week, excluding weekends
• German: Arbeitstag — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Greek: καθημερινή (kathimeriní) — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Hawaiian: lā noa — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Hebrew: יום חול — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Hebrew: יוֹם חֹל (yóm khól) — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Hindi: वार (vār) — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Hindi: कार्यदिवस (kāryadivas) — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Hungarian: hétköznap — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Hungarian: munkanap — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Icelandic: vikudagur — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Indonesian: hari biasa — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Ingrian: arkipäivä — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Irish: lá den tseachtain — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Italian: giorno feriale — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Japanese: 平日 — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Japanese: ウィークデー (wīkudē) — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Japanese: 週日 (shūjitsu) — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Kashmiri: وار (vār) — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Korean: 평일 (pyeong'il) — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Korean: 주중 (jujung) — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Latin: feria — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Latvian: darba dienā — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Lithuanian: darbo diena — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Luxembourgish: Wochendag — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Macedonian: делник (delnik) — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Norwegian Bokmål: hverdag — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Norwegian Bokmål: virkedag — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Norwegian Bokmål: arbeidsdag — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kvardag — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Norwegian Nynorsk: vyrkedag — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Norwegian Nynorsk: yrkedag — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Ojibwe: anokii-giizhigad — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Old English: wicdæġ — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Iranian Persian: روزِ کاری (ruz-e kâri) — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Plautdietsch: Woakjeldach — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Polish: dzień powszedni — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Polish: dzień roboczy — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Portuguese: dia de semana — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Romanian: zi a săptămânii — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Romanian: zi lucrătoare — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Russian: рабо́чий день (rabóčij denʹ) — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Russian: бу́дний день (búdnij denʹ) — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Russian: бу́дни (búdni) — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Northern Sami: árga — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Slovak: všedný deň — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Slovak: robotný deň — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Slovene: delavnik — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Spanish: día de entre semana — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Spanish: día de entresemana — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Spanish: dia laborable — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Spanish: día de diario — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Swedish: vardag — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Swedish: arbetsdag — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Tajik: рӯзи кор (rüz-i kor) — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Thai: วันทํางาน (wan-tam-ngaan) — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Turkish: hafta içi — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Turkish: hafta arası — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Ukrainian: бу́день (búdenʹ) — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Ukrainian: бу́дній день (búdnij denʹ) — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Ukrainian: робо́чий день (robóčyj denʹ) — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Uzbek: oddiy kun — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Uzbek: ish kuni — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Uzbek: begim kuni — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Vietnamese: ngày thường — day of the week, excluding weekends
• Welsh: dydd o'r wythnos — day of the week, excluding weekends