Wednesday

Etymology
(ca. 1200) Wednesdai, not from wōdnesdæġ, but rather from a *wednesdæġ, attested as Old Frisian wednesdei. The compound translates to "Woden's day", as it were Common Germanic Wōdinas dagaz, From the Old English theonym Woden and dæġ "day".

Pronunciation

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Noun

 * 1) The fourth day of the week in many religious traditions, and the third day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; it follows Tuesday and precedes Thursday.

Synonyms

 * Humpday

Derived terms

 * Ash Wednesday
 * Black Wednesday
 * calendar Wednesday
 * Good Wednesday
 * Holy Wednesday
 * Sheffield Wednesday
 * Spy Wednesday


 * Wed, Wed.
 * Wednesday crucifixion theory
 * Wednesdays
 * Wednesdays in Mississippi
 * White Wednesday
 * Whit Wednesday

Translations

 * Abkhaz: (axaš)
 * Afrikaans:
 * Alabama: atótchìina, nihta atótchìina
 * Albanian: e mërkurë
 * Alutiiq:
 * Amharic: ረቡዕ (rob)
 * Amuzgo: mikluè
 * Arabic: (al-’árbaʕa’)
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri: çərşənbə
 * Bashkir:
 * Basque: asteazken
 * Belarusian:
 * Blackfoot: ííkaitaistssinao'p
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: Merc'her, dimerc'her adverb
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: dimecres
 * Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⵀⴰⴷ (ahad)
 * Chechen:
 * Cherokee: ᏦᎢᏁ ᎢᎦ (tsoine iga)
 * Chinese: 星期三 (xīngqī sān), 周三 (zhōu sān)
 * Chuvash:
 * Corsican: màrcuri
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dakota:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:, ónsdagur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: mércores
 * Georgian:
 * German: Mittwoch, (poetic:) Wotanstag
 * Greek: (tetárti)
 * Greenlandic:
 * Gujarati: બુધવાર (budhvār)
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew: יום רביעי (yom rəvi’í)
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: merkurdio
 * Indonesian: hari rabu
 * Interlingua: mercuridi
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 水曜日 (すいようび, suiyōbi)
 * Kashubian: strzoda
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer: (tngai bpŭt)
 * Kinyarwanda: Kwagatatu
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish: ,


 * Kyrgyz: Шаршемби
 * Lao:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Livonian: kuolmõndpǟva
 * Lower Sorbian: srjoda
 * Luxembourgish: Mëttwoch
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Maltese:
 * Maori: Wenerei, Rātoru, Rāapa
 * Navajo:
 * Neapolitan: miercurì
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:
 * Ojibwe: aabitoose
 * Old English:
 * Old Norse: óðinsdagr
 * Old Turkic:
 * Ossetian:
 * Digor:
 * Iron:
 * Papiamentu:
 * Persian: (čaharšanbeh)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sami:
 * Northern:
 * Scottish Gaelic: Di-ciadaoin
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: среда
 * Roman: sreda
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Somali: Arbaca
 * Sotho: Laboraro
 * Spanish:
 * Sundanese: rebo
 * Swahili: jumatano
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: Miyerkules
 * Taos: míalkulisi
 * Tatar:
 * Thai: (wan phōōt)
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: çarşenbe, hoşgün
 * Ukrainian:
 * Upper Sorbian: srjeda
 * Uzbek: chorshanba
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: vedel, folüdel, vesdel
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: woansdei
 * Wolof: Àllarba
 * Yiddish: מיטוואָך (mítvokh)


 * Tibetan: གཟའ་ལྷག་པ་

Adverb

 * 1) on Wednesday

Translations

 * Irish:


 * Volapük: vedelo, folüdelo, vesdelo