week

See also:Wéëk

English

Alternative forms

• weeke(obsolete)

Etymology

FromMiddle Englishweke,fromOld Englishwiċe,wucu(“week”),fromProto-West Germanic*wikā,fromProto-Germanic*wikǭ(“turn, succession, change, week”),fromProto-Indo-European*weyg-,*weyk-(“to bend, wind, turn, yield”).Related toProto-Germanic*wīkaną(“to bend, yield, cease”).

Cognate withSaterland FrisianWiek,West Frisianwike,Dutchweek,GermanWoche,Danishuge,Norwegian Nynorskveke,Swedishvecka,Icelandicvika,Gothic𐍅𐌹𐌺𐍉(wikō,“turn for temple service”),Latinvicis,Finnishviikko.Related also toOld Englishwīcan(“to yield, give way”),Englishweakandwick.

Pronunciation

• (General American)IPA^(key):/wik/
• enPR:wēk,IPA^(key):/wiːk/

• Audio(US):

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• Rhymes:-iːk
• Homophone:weak

Noun

week(pluralweeks)

1. Anyperiodofsevenconsecutivedays.
   • 2013July 6, “The rise of smart beta”,inThe Economist,volume408,number8843,page68:

     Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recentweeksbut they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.

2. A period of seven days beginning withSundayorMonday.
3. A period of five days beginning withMonday.
4. A subdivision of themonthinto longer periods of work days punctuated by shorterweekendperiods of days for markets, rest, or religious observation such as asabbath.

   A 4-dayweekconsists of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

5. (following a named day)A date seven days after (sometimesbefore) the specified day.

   I'll see you Thursdayweek.[a week on Thursday, i.e. Thursday after next]

   The wedding is tomorrowweek.[a week tomorrow, i.e. in eight days' time]

Synonyms

• hebdomad(historical or Christianity),sennight(archaic)

Hypernyms

• time,day,month,year

Meronyms

• midweek,weekday,weekend

Derived terms

weeks and parts of weeks

• bo xing week
• bull week
• bush week
• dead week
• Ember week
• fashion week
• five-day week
• freshers' week
• frosh week
• Golden Week
• hell week
• Holy Week
• leap week
• noughth week,0th week
• orientation week
• prophetic week
• rag week
• reading week
• red week
• revision week
• schoolies week
• school week
• shark week
• spirit week
• technical week
• tech week
• the Three Weeks
• week-end,weekend
• white week
• working week,workweek

temporal adverbs

• from week to week
• last week
• next week
• this week
• today week
• tomorrow week
• week-long,weeklong
• weekly
• yesterday week

idioms and proverbs

• any day of the week
• any day of the week and twice on Sunday
• any day of the week and twice on Sundays
• as modern as next week
• a week from next Tuesday
• a week is a long time in politics
• be born last week
• every day of the week
• every day of the week and twice on Sunday
• every day of the week and twice on Sundays
• flavor of the week
• flavour of the week
• for weeks on end
• I'm here all week
• knock someone into the middle of next week
• modern as next week
• monster of the week
• next next week
• second Tuesday of the week
• two week millionaire
• villain of the week

other

• light week
• run of week

Descendants

• →Maori:wiki

Translations

period of seven days

• Abkhaz:амчыбжь(amčəbž)
• Adyghe:тхьамафэ(tḥamafɛ)
• Afar:ayam
• Afrikaans:week(af)
• Albanian:javë(sq)f
• American Sign Language:1@BasePalm-PalmDown-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp 1@Finger-PalmDown-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp
• Amharic:ሳምንት(samnət)
• Arabic:أُسْبُوعm(ʔusbūʕ),جُمْعَة(ar)f(jumʕa)

  Egyptian Arabic:اسبوعm(ʔesbūʕ)

  Gulf Arabic:إسبوعm(ʔisbūʕ)

  Hijazi Arabic:أُسبوعm(ʔusbūʕ)

  Moroccan Arabic:سيمانةf(simāna),أُسبوعm(ʔusbūʕ),سيمانة(simāna)

  North Levantine Arabic:جمعة(jimʕa)

• Aragonese:semanaf
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac:ܫܒܘܥܐ,ܫܒܬܐ

• Armenian:շաբաթ(hy)(šabatʻ)
• Aromanian:siptãmãnãf,stãmãnãf,stãmenef
• Assamese:সপ্তাহ(xoptah)
• Asturian:selmana(ast)f,sermanaf,semana(ast)f,semáf,sumana(ast)f
• Avar:анкь(ankkˡʼ)
• Azerbaijani:həftə(az),yeddinək
• Bashkir:аҙна(aźna)
• Basque:aste(eu)
• Belarusian:ты́дзень(be)m(týdzjenʹ)
• Bengali:সপ্তাহ(bn)(śoptaho)
• Bhojpuri:𑂮𑂣𑂹𑂞𑂰𑂯(saptāh),हप्ता(haptā)
• Breton:sizhun(br)f
• Bulgarian:се́дмица(bg)f(sédmica)
• Burmese:ရက်သတ္တပတ်(my)(raksatta.pat),တစ်ပတ်(my)(tacpat)
• Buryat:долоон хоног(doloon xonog)
• Carpathian Rusyn:ты́жденьm(tŷ́ždenʹ)
• Catalan:setmana(ca)f
• Cebuano:semana
• Chakma:please add this translation if you can
• Chechen:кӏира(kʼira)
• Cherokee:ᏑᎾᏙᏓᏆᏍᏗ(sunadodaquasdi)
• Chichewa:mlungu,sabata
• Chinese:

  Cantonese:Cuối tuần(sing¹kei⁴),Tuần／Tuần(lai⁵baai³)

  Dungan:щинчи(xinči),чи(či)

  Eastern Min:Tuần／Tuần(lā̤-bái)

  Hakka:Tuần／Tuần(lî-pai)

  Hokkien:Tuần／Tuần(zh-min-nan)(lé-pài)

  Mandarin:Cuối tuần(zh)(xīngqī),Chu／Chu(zh)(zhōu),Tuần／Tuần(zh)(lǐbài)

  Wu:Cuối tuần(¹shin-ji₆),Tuần／Tuần(⁶li-pa₅)

• Chuvash:эрне(erne)
• Corsican:settimanaf,sittimanaf,simanaf
• Crimean Tatar:afta
• Czech:týden(cs)m
• Dalmatian:jedmaf,setemúnaf,setimuón
• Danish:uge(da)c
• Dhivehi:ހަފްތާ(haftā)
• Dutch:week(nl)f
• Emilian:stmèna
• Erzya:тарго(targo),недля(ńeďľa)
• Esperanto:semajno(eo)
• Estonian:nädal(et)
• Fala:semana
• Faroese:vikaf
• Fi gian:macava(fj)
• Finnish:viikko(fi)
• Franco-Provençal:semana
• French:semaine(fr)f,huit jours(fr)
• Friulian:setemanef
• Galician:semana(gl)f,semá(gl)f,semán(gl)f,somana(gl)f,domáf
• Georgian:კვირა(ka)(ḳvira)
• German:Woche(de)f
• Gilbertese:wiki
• Gothic:𐍅𐌹𐌺𐍉f(wikō)
• Greek:εβδομάδα(el)f(evdomáda),επταήμερο(el)n(eptaḯmero),εφταήμερο(el)n(eftaḯmero)

  Ancient:ἑβδομάςf(hebdomás)

• Guaraní:arapokõindy
• Gujarati:અઠવાડિયુંn(aṭhavāḍiyũ),સપ્તાહn(saptāh),હપતોm(hapto)
• Haitian Creole:semèn
• Hausa:mako
• Hawaiian:pule
• Hebrew:שבוע / שָׁבוּעַ(he)m(shavúa)
• Hindi:हफ़्ता(hi)m(haftā),सप्ताह(hi)m(saptāh),वीक(hi)m(vīk)
• Hungarian:hét(hu)
• Icelandic:vika(is)f
• Ido:semano(io)
• Inari Sami:okko
• Indonesian:minggu(id),pekan(id)
• Ingush:кӏира(kʼira)
• Interlingua:septimana(ia)
• Iranun:please add this translation if you can
• Irish:seachtain(ga)f

  Old Irish:sechtmain

• Istro-Romanian:šetimana
• Italian:settimana(it)f
• Japanese:Chu(ja)(しゅう, shū),Chu gian(ja)(しゅうかん, shūkan)
• Kalmyk:долан хонг(dolan xong)
• Kannada:ವಾರ(kn)(vāra)
• Karachay-Balkar:ыйыкъ(ıyıq)
• Karelian:nedali,nedäli
• Kashmiri:ہَفتہٕ(haftụ)
• Kashubian:tidzéń(csb)m
• Kazakh:апта(apta),жұма(kk)(jūma)
• Khmer:សប្តាហៈ(sapphdaahaʼ),អាទិត្យ(km)(ʼaatɨt),សត្តាហៈ(sattaahaʼ),សប្តាហ៍(sappədaa)
• Komi-Permyak:недель(ńeďeľ),вежон(vežon)
• Komi-Zyrian:вежон(vežon)
• Korean:주( chu )(ko)(ju),주일( chủ nhật )(ko)(ju'il)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish:حەفتە(ḧefte)

  Northern Kurdish:hefte(ku)f,heftî(ku)f

• Kyrgyz:апта(ky)(apta),жума(ky)(juma),жетикүн(jetikün)
• Ladin:enaf,setemenaf
• Ladino:semana,סימאנה
• Lak:нужмяр(nužmaˤr)
• Lao:ສັບດາ(sap dā),ສັບປະດາ(sap pa dā),ອາທິດ(lo)(ʼā thit),ສັດຕາຫະ(sat tā ha)
• Latgalian:nedeļaf
• Latin:hebdomas(la)f,septimānaf(Late)
• Latvian:nedēļa(lv)f
• Leonese:selmana
• Lezgi:гьафте(hafte)
• Limburgish:waek(li)
• Lindu:minggu
• Lithuanian:savaitė(lt)f
• Livonian:nädīļ
• Louisiana Creole French:lasmènn,smènn
• Low German:

  German Low German:Week(nds)f

• Luganda:sabbiiti
• Luxembourgish:Woch(lb)f
• Macedonian:седмицаf(sedmica),недела(mk)f(nedela)
• Magahi:𑂮𑂣𑂹𑂞𑂰𑂯(saptāh)
• Maguindanao:sakapadian
• Maithili:सप्ताह(saptāh),अठबार(aṭhᵊbār)
• Malagasy:herinandro(mg)
• Malay:minggu(ms)(Malaysia, Singapore),pekan(ms)(Riau),jemaat,jumaat(both obsolete)
• Malayalam:ആഴ്ച(ml)(āḻca)
• Maltese:ġimgħa
• Manchu:[script needed](barun)
• Manx:shiaghtinf
• Maori:wiki
• Maranao:padiqan
• Marathi:आठवडा(mr)(āṭhavḍā)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari:арня(arńa)

• Mauritian Creole:semenn
• Megleno-Romanian:săptămănăf,săptămǫnăf,sămǫnăf,smǫnăf
• Middle Persian:𐭤𐭯𐭲𐭪(hptk/⁠haftag⁠/)
• Mirandese:sumana
• Mòcheno:bochf
• Moksha:недяля(ńeďaľa),тарга(targa)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic:долоо хоног(doloo xonog),гариг(mn)(garig)(Inner Mongolia)

  Mongolian:ᠳᠣᠯᠤᠭ᠎ᠠ
  ᠬᠣᠨᠤᠭ(dolug-a qonug),ᠭᠠᠷᠠᠭ(ɣarag)

• Nahuatl:chicōntōnalli
• Nalca:minggu
• Navajo:damį́įgo,damóo
• Navarro-Aragonese:semana
• Neapolitan:semmanaf,semanaf
• Nepali:हप्‍ता(hapatā)
• Ngazidja Comorian:mfumoclass3/4
• Norman:s'mainef(Jersey),s'môinef(Guernsey)
• North Frisian:wegf
• Northern Mansi:^{(pleaseverify)}са̄т(sāt)
• Northern Sami:vahkku
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:uke(no)morf

  Nynorsk:vekef,vikaf(archaic,Høgnorsk)

• Occitan:setmana(oc)f
• Odia:ସପ୍ତାହ(saptāha)
• Ojibwe:anamiʼe-giizhik
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic:седмицаf(sedmica)

• Old East Slavic:тꙑижьдьньf(tyižĭdĭnĭ),тꙑжьдьньm(tyžĭdĭnĭ)
• Old English:wiċef
• Old French:semeinef,semainef
• Old Norse:vikaf
• Old Saxon:wikaf
• Oromo:torbee
• Ossetian:къуыри(k’°yri)
• Pannonian Rusyn:тидзеньm(tidzenʹ)
• Papiamentu:siman
• Pashto:اونۍf(onəy)
• Persian:

  Classical Persian:هَفْتَه(phát)(hafta)

  Dari:هَفْتَه(phát)(hafta)

  Iranian Persian:هَفْتِه(phát)(hafte)

• Piedmontese:sman-a
• Plautdietsch:Wäakjf
• Polish:tydzień(pl)m
• Portuguese:semana(pt)f
• Punjabi:ਹਫ਼ਤੇ(hafte)
• Quechua:simana(qu),hunk'a,qanchischaw
• Rohingya:hafta
• Romagnol:stmanaf
• Romani:kurkom
• Romanian:săptămână(ro)f
• Romansch:emnaf,emdaf,jamnaf,eamda
• Russian:неде́ля(ru)f(nedélja)
• Sabir:settimana
• Saho:liggidina
• Samoan:vaiaso
• Sanskrit:सप्ताह(sa)m(saptāha)
• Sardinian:chídaf,chidaf,chitaf,cidaf,ciraf
• Scots:wouk
• Scottish Gaelic:seachdainf
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic:недељаf,нѐдјељаf,нѐђељаf,те̏данm,тје̏данm,сѐдмицаf

  Roman:nèdelja(sh)f,nèdjelja(sh)f,nèđelja(sh)f,tȅdanm,tjȅdan(sh)m,Sắc dmica(sh)f

• Seychellois Creole:semenn
• Sicilian:simana(scn)f
• Silesian:tydźyńm
• Sinhalese:සතිය(si)(satiya)
• Skolt Sami:neäʹttel
• Slovak:týždeň(sk)m
• Slovene:téden(sl)m
• Somali:toddobaad
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian:tyźeńm

  Upper Sorbian:tydźeń(hsb)m

• Southern Sami:våhkoe
• Spanish:semana(es)f

  Old Spanish:semana,setmana

• Sranan Tongo:wiki
• Swahili:wiki(sw),juma
• Swedish:vecka(sv)c
• Sylheti:please add this translation if you can
• Tagalog:linggo(tl),semana
• Tahitian:hepetoma
• Tajik:ҳафта(tg)(hafta)
• Tamil:கிழமை(ta)(kiḻamai),வாரம்(ta)(vāram)
• Taos:tumį́ku
• Tarantino:sumánef,sumanaf
• Tatar:атна(tt)(atna)
• Tausug:pitu
• Telugu:వారము(te)(vāramu)
• Thai:สัปดาห์(th)(sàp-daa),อาทิตย์(th)(aa-tít),สัตวาร,สัตตาห
• Tibetan:བདུན་ཕྲག(bdun phrag)
• Tigrinya:ሰሙን(sämun)
• Tok Pisin:wik
• Tswana:beke
• Tumbuka:sabata
• Turkish:hafta(tr),yedil(tr)
• Turkmen:hepde
• Tuvan:чеди хонук(çedi xonuk),неделя(nedelya),чедилик(çedilik)
• Udi:шаматӏ(šamaṭ)
• Udmurt:арня(arńa)
• Ukrainian:ти́ждень(uk)m(týždenʹ)
• Urdu:ہَفْتَہ(ur)m(hafta),سَپْتاہm(saptāh)(rare)
• Uyghur:ھەپتە(hepte)
• Uzbek:hafta(uz)
• Venda:vhege
• Venetan:setimana(vec)f,stemanaf,stimanaf,setemanaf
• Vietnamese:tuần(vi),tuần lễ(vi)
• Volapük:vig(vo)
• Walloon:samwinne(wa)f,samaîun
• Welsh:wythnos(cy)f
• West Frisian:wike(fy)c
• White Hmong:lis tiam
• Wolof:ayubés,besboai
• Xhosa:veki
• Yagnobi:ҳафта(hafta)
• Yakan:please add this translation if you can
• Yakut:нэдиэлэ(nediele)
• Yao:ci-juma
• Yiddish:וואָך(yi)f(vokh)
• Yoruba:ọ̀sẹ̀
• Zazaki:hefte(diq),hewte(diq)m
• Zhuang:singhgiz,singgeiz,lijbai,cou
• Zulu:iviki(zu)
• ǃXóõ:bìikì

See also

• (days of the week)dayof theweek;Sunday,‎Monday,‎Tuesday,‎Wednesday,‎Thursday,‎Friday,‎Saturday^{(Category:en:Days of the week)[edit]}
• calendar
• Sabbath

Further reading

• ISO 8601on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Afrikaans

Etymology

FromDutchweek,fromMiddle Dutchweke,fromOld Dutch*wika,fromProto-Germanic*wikǭ,fromProto-Indo-European*weyg-(“to bend, wind, turn, yield”).CompareEnglishweek,West Frisianwike,GermanWoche.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

week(pluralweke)

1. week

   Daar is sewe dae in dieweek.―There are seven days in theweek.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ʋeːk/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation:week
• Rhymes:-eːk

Etymology 1

FromMiddle Dutchwēke,fromOld Dutch*wika,fromProto-West Germanic*wikā,fromProto-Germanic*wikǭ,fromProto-Indo-European*weyg-(“to bend, wind, turn, yield”).

Noun

weekf(pluralweken,diminutiveweekjen)

1. week,period of seven days

Derived terms

• de week doormidden zagen
• feestweek
• vakantieweek
• van de week
• weekblad
• weekdag
• weekloon
• wekelijks
• Wekenfeest
• werkweek

Descendants

• Afrikaans:week
• Berbice Creole Dutch:weki
• Jersey Dutch:wêk
• Negerhollands:week
• →Lokono:wiki
• →?Sranan Tongo:wiki
  • →Aukan:wiki
  • →Saramaccan:wíki

Etymology 2

FromMiddle Dutchwêec,fromOld Dutch*wēk,fromProto-West Germanic*waikw,fromProto-Germanic*waikwaz.

Adjective

week(comparativeweker,superlativeweekst)

1. soft,tender,fragile
2. weak,gentle,weakhearted

Declension

Declension ofweek
uninflected	week
inflected	weke
comparative	weker
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		week	weker	hetweekst hetweekste
indefinite	m./f.sing.	weke	wekere	weekste
	n.sing.	week	weker	weekste
	plural	weke	wekere	weekste
definite		weke	wekere	weekste
partitive		weeks	wekers	—

Antonyms

• hard

Derived terms

• weekdier
• weekhartig
• weekheid
• weke delen
• weken

Descendants

• Jersey Dutch:wîk

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the correspondinglemmaform.

Verb

week

1. inflection ofweken:
   1. first-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. (in case ofinversion)second-personsingularpresentindicative
   3. imperative

Verb

week

1. singularpastindicativeofwijken

Anagrams

• kwee
• weke

Middle English

Noun

week

1. Alternative form ofweke(“week”)