Thursday

Thursday is the day of the week between Wednesday and Friday. According to the ISO 8601 international standard, it is the fourth day of the week. In countries that adopt the 'Sunday-first' convention, it is the fifth day of the week. Thursday is the day of the week between Wednesday and Friday. According to the ISO 8601 international standard, it is the fourth day of the week. In countries that adopt the 'Sunday-first' convention, it is the fifth day of the week. See Names of the days of the week for more on naming conventions. The name is derived from Old English Þūnresdæg and Middle English Thuresday (with loss of -n-, first in northern dialects, from influence of Old Norse Þorsdagr) meaning 'Thor's Day'. It was named after the Norse god of Thunder, Thor. Thunor, Donar (German, Donnerstag) and Thor are derived from the name of the Germanic god of thunder, Thunraz, equivalent to Jupiter in the interpretatio romana. In most Romance languages, the day is named after the Roman god Jupiter, who was the god of sky and thunder. In Latin, the day was known as Iovis Dies, 'Jupiter's Day'. In Latin, the genitive or possessive case of Jupiter was Iovis/Jovis and thus in most Romance languages it became the word for Thursday: Italian giovedì, Spanish jueves, French jeudi, Sardinian jòvia, Catalan dijous, Galician xoves and Romanian joi. This is also reflected in the p-Celtic Welsh dydd Iau. The astrological and astronomical sign of the planet Jupiter (♃) is sometimes used to represent Thursday. Since the Roman god Jupiter was identified with Thunor (Norse Thor in northern Europe), most Germanic languages name the day after this god: Torsdag in Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish, Hósdagur/Tórsdagur in Faroese, Donnerstag in German or Donderdag in Dutch. Finnish and Northern Sami, both non-Germanic (Uralic) languages, uses the borrowing 'Torstai' and 'Duorastat'. In the extinct Polabian Slavic language, it was perundan, Perun being the Slavic equivalent of Thor. There are a number of modern names imitating the naming of Thursday after an equivalent of 'Jupiter' in local tradition. In most of the languages of India, the word for Thursday is Guruvāra – vāra meaning day and Guru being the style for Bṛhaspati, guru to the gods and regent of the planet Jupiter. In Sanskrit language, the day is called Bṛhaspativāsaram (day of Bṛhaspati). In Nepali language, the day is called Bihivāra as derived from the Sanskrit word. In Thai, the word is Wan Pharuehatsabodi , also in Old Javanese as Respati or in Balinese as Wraspati – referring to the Hindu deity Bṛhaspati, also associated with Jupiter.En was an old Illyrian deity and in his honor in the Albanian language Thursday is called 'Enjte'.In the Nahuatl language, Thursday is Tezcatlipotōnal (Nahuatl pronunciation: ) meaning 'day of Tezcatlipoca'. In Slavic languages and in Chinese, this day's name is 'fourth' (Slovak štvrtok, Czech čtvrtek, Slovene četrtek, Croatian and Bosnian četvrtak, Polish czwartek, Russian четверг četverg, Bulgarian четвъртък, Serbian четвртак, Macedonian четврток, Ukrainian четвер chetver.). Hungarian uses a Slavic loanword 'csütörtök'. In Chinese, it is 星期四 xīngqīsì ('fourth solar day'). In ancient Chinese, it is 木曜日. In Estonian it's neljapäev, meaning 'fourth day' or 'fourth day in a week'. The Baltic languages also use the term 'fourth day' (Latvian ceturtdiena, Lithuanian ketvirtadienis). Greek uses a number for this day: Πέμπτη Pémpti 'fifth,' as does Portuguese: quinta-feira 'fifth day,' Hebrew: .mw-parser-output .script-hebrew,.mw-parser-output .script-Hebr{font-size:1.15em;font-family:'Ezra SIL','Ezra SIL SR','Keter Aram Tsova','Taamey Ashkenaz','Taamey David CLM','Taamey Frank CLM','Frank Ruehl CLM','Keter YG','Shofar','David CLM','Hadasim CLM','Simple CLM','Nachlieli','SBL BibLit','SBL Hebrew',Cardo,Alef,'Noto Serif Hebrew','Noto Sans Hebrew','David Libre',David,'Times New Roman',Gisha,Arial,FreeSerif,FreeSans}יום חמישי (Yom Khamishi – day fifth) often written 'יום ה ('Yom Hey' – 5th letter Hey day), and Arabic: يوم الخميس ('Yaum al-Khamīs' – fifth day). Rooted from Arabic, Indonesian word for Thursday is 'Kamis', similarly 'Khamis' in Malay and 'Kemis' in Javanese.