Monday is the day of the week between Sunday and Tuesday. The name Monday is derived from Old English and means "moon's day", as it is named after the Moon. In many languages, including Slavic languages and Turkish, the name of Monday translates to "after Sunday/holiday". While Monday is considered the first day of the week according to the international standard, in some Christian traditions it is considered the second day of the week, with Sunday being the first.
Monday is the day of the week between Sunday and Tuesday. The name Monday is derived from Old English and means "moon's day", as it is named after the Moon. In many languages, including Slavic languages and Turkish, the name of Monday translates to "after Sunday/holiday". While Monday is considered the first day of the week according to the international standard, in some Christian traditions it is considered the second day of the week, with Sunday being the first.
Monday is the day of the week between Sunday and Tuesday. The name Monday is derived from Old English and means "moon's day", as it is named after the Moon. In many languages, including Slavic languages and Turkish, the name of Monday translates to "after Sunday/holiday". While Monday is considered the first day of the week according to the international standard, in some Christian traditions it is considered the second day of the week, with Sunday being the first.
Monday is the day of the week between Sunday and Tuesday. The name Monday is derived from Old English and means "moon's day", as it is named after the Moon. In many languages, including Slavic languages and Turkish, the name of Monday translates to "after Sunday/holiday". While Monday is considered the first day of the week according to the international standard, in some Christian traditions it is considered the second day of the week, with Sunday being the first.
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Galileo's 1616 drawings of the Moon and its phases. Monday is named after the Moon in many languages. Monday ( i /mnde/ or /mndi/) is the day of the week between Sunday and Tuesday. According to the traditional Christian, Islamic and Hebrew calendars, it is the second day of the week, and according to international standard ISO 8601 it is the first day of the week. The name of Monday is derived from Old English Mnandg and Middle English Monenday, which means "moon day". Contents
10 References Etymology
A depiction of Mni, the personified moon, and his sister Sl, the personified sun, from Norse mythology (1895) by Lorenz Frlich. The English noun Monday derived sometime before 1200 from monedi, which itself developed from Old English (around 1000) mnandg and mndg (literally meaning "moon's day"), which is cognate to other Germanic languages, including Old Frisian mnadeig, Middle Low German and Middle Dutch mnendag, mnendach (modern Dutch Maandag), Old High German mnetag (modern German Montag), and Old Norse mnadagr (Swedish and Norwegian nynorsk mndag, Icelandic mnudagur. Danish and Norwegian bokml mandag). The Germanic term is a Germanic interpretation of Latin lunae dies ("day of the moon"). [1]
In many Slavic languages the name of the day eschews pagan tradition and translates as "after Sunday/holiday". Russian (ponyedyelnik), Serbian (ponedeljak), Ukrainian (ponedilok), Bulgarian (ponedelnik), Polish poniedziaek, Czech pondl, Slovak pondelok, Slovenian ponedeljek. In Turkish it is called pazartesi, which also means "after Sunday." Japanese and Korean share the same ancient Chinese words '' (Hiragana:, Hangul:) for Monday which means day of the moon. In many Languages of India, the word for Monday is derived from Sanskrit Somavra. [2] Soma is another name of the Moon god in Hinduism. In some languages of India it is also called Chandravra, Chandra in Sanskrit means moon. In Thailand the day is called "Wan Jan" meaning, the day of the Moon god Chandra". Position in the week The international ISO 8601 standard places Monday as the first day of the week, and this is widely used on calendars in Europe and in international business. Monday is xngqy () in Chinese, meaning "day one of the week". Its name in Georgian and Syriac means "first day". In all Slavic languages Monday's perceived as the first day of the week. [3] Modern western culture usually looks at Monday as the beginning of the workweek, as it is typically Monday when adults go back to work and children go back to school after the weekend. Jewish and some Christian traditions place Sunday as the first day of the week, and Monday is thus the second day of the week. This is the standard format in the United States, Canada, Japan and Israel. Quakers traditionally refer to Monday as "Second Day" eschewing the pagan origin of the English name "Monday". For similar reasons the official liturgical calendar of the Roman Catholic Church refers to Monday as the second celebration day Feria II. The Portuguese and the Greek (Eastern Orthodox Church) name for Monday reflects this, as do all the days' names except Saturday and Sunday: the Portuguese word for Monday is segunda-feira and the Greek word is "devtra" (second in order). Likewise the Hebrew name for Monday is yom- sheni ( ). Religious observances In Judaism and Islam Mondays are considered auspicious days for fasting. The Didache warned early Christians not to fast on Mondays to avoid Judaizing, and suggests Wednesdays instead. In Judaism the Torah is read in public on Monday mornings, one of three days the Torah is read each week (the other two days being Thursday and Saturday). Special penitential prayers are recited on Monday, unless there is a special occasion for happiness which cancels them. In the Eastern Orthodox Church Mondays are days on which the Angels are commemorated. The Octoechos contains hymns on this theme, arranged in an eight-week cycle, that are chanted on Mondays throughout the year. At the end of Divine Services on Monday, the dismissal begins with the words: "May Christ our True God, through the intercessions of his most-pure Mother, of the honorable, Bodiless Powers (i.e., the angels) of Heaven". In many Eastern monasteries Mondays