Tuesday

Etymology
Tewesday, from Tīwesdæg (a rendering of  dies Martis, itself a translation of  Areos hemera), from Tīw, god of war and the sky, from Proto-Germanic *Tiwaz (compare  Tyr:,  Ziu:), from Proto-Indo-European *dyeu- 'to shine' +  dæg day; akin to  tysdagr,  tisdag,  zīostag:; the variants  dinsdag:,  Dienstag:, both from Thinxus, a nasalized version of Tīw; more at Zeus and day.

Pronunciation

 * , or ,

Noun

 * 1) The third day of the week in many religious traditions, and the second day of the week in systems that use the ISO 8601 norm; it follows Monday and precedes Wednesday.

Derived terms

 * Black Tuesday
 * ecstasy Tuesday
 * Fasten-Tuesday, Fastens-Tuesday
 * Fat Tuesday
 * Happy Tuesday
 * Hock Tuesday
 * Holy Tuesday


 * Mini-Tuesday
 * Pancake Tuesday
 * Patch Tuesday
 * Pentecost Tuesday
 * see you next Tuesday
 * Shroft Tuesday
 * Shrove Tuesday
 * suicide Tuesday


 * Super Tuesday
 * Terrible Tuesday
 * Tue, Tues
 * Tuesday blues
 * Tuesday Group
 * Tuesdays
 * Whitsun Tuesday
 * Whit Tuesday, Whit-Tuesday

Translations

 * Abkhaz:
 * Afrikaans: Dinsdag
 * Alabama: atòkla, nihta atòkla
 * Albanian: e martë
 * Alutiiq:
 * Amharic: ማክሰኞ (maksenyo)
 * Amuzgo: martè
 * Arabic: (aθ-θalaθá’)
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri: çərşənbə axşamı
 * Bashkir:
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian:
 * Blackfoot: isttsinaiksistsiko
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: Meurzh, dimeurzh adverb
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: dimarts
 * Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⵔⴰⵎ (aram)
 * Chechen:
 * Cherokee: ᏔᎵᏁ ᎢᎦ (taline iga)
 * Chinese: 星期二 (xīngqī èr)
 * Chuvash:
 * Corsican: marti
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dakota:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: martes
 * Georgian:
 * German: Dienstag
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic:
 * Gujarati: મંગળવાર
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew: יום שלישי (yom šliší)
 * Hindi: मंगलवार (mãgalavār), भौमवार (bhaumavār)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: mardio
 * Indonesian: hari selasa
 * Interlingua: martedi
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 火曜日 (かようび, kayōbi)
 * Kashubian: wtórk
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer: (tngai ongīă)
 * Kinyarwanda: Kwakabiri
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz: Шейшемби
 * Lao:
 * Latin:


 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Livonian: tuoiznapǟva
 * Lower Sorbian: wałtora
 * Luxembourgish: Dënschden, Dënschdeg
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Maltese:
 * Maori: Tūrei, Rārua, Rātū
 * Navajo:
 * Neapolitan: marterì
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: tirsdag
 * Nynorsk: tysdag
 * Occitan:
 * Ojibwe: niizhogiizhigad
 * Old English:
 * Old Norse: týsdagr
 * Old Turkic:
 * Ossetian:
 * Digor: ,
 * Iron:
 * Papiamentu:
 * Persian: (sešanbeh)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sami:
 * Northern: ,
 * Sardinian:
 * Scots: Tysday
 * Scottish Gaelic: Di-màirt
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: уторак
 * Roman: utorak
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Somali: Talaado
 * Sotho: Labobedi
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: Martes
 * Taos: móltəsi
 * Tatar:
 * Thai: (wan ang khaan)
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: sişenbe, ýaşgün
 * Ukrainian:
 * Upper Sorbian: wutora
 * Uyghur: سەيشەنبە
 * Uzbek: seshanba
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: tudel, kilüdel, tusdel
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: tiisdei
 * Wolof: Talaata
 * Yiddish: דינסטיק (dinstik)


 * Tibetan: གཟའ་མིག་དམར་

Adverb

 * 1) on Tuesday

Translations

 * Hungarian: kedden
 * Irish:


 * Volapük: tudelo, kilüdelo, tusdelo