week

See also: Wéëk

English

Alternative forms

• weeke (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English weke, from Old English wiċe, wucu (“week”), from Proto-West Germanic *wikā, from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ (“turn, succession, change, week”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyg-, *weyk- (“to bend, wind, turn, yield”). Related to Proto-Germanic *wīkaną (“to bend, yield, cease”).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Wiek, West Frisian wike, Dutch week, German Woche, Danish uge, Norwegian Nynorsk veke, Swedish vecka, Icelandic vika, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌺𐍉 (wikō, “turn for temple service”), Latin vicis, Finnish viikko. Related also to Old English wīcan (“to yield, give way”), English weak and wick.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -iːk
• Homophone: weak

Noun

week (plural weeks)

1. Any period of seven consecutive days.
   • 2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68:

     Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but 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 with Sunday or Monday.
3. A period of five days beginning with Monday.
4. A subdivision of the month into longer periods of work days punctuated by shorter weekend periods of days for markets, rest, or religious observation such as a sabbath.

   A 4-day week consists of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

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

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

   The wedding is tomorrow week. [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

• boxing 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

 

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: أُسْبُوع m (ʔusbūʕ), جُمْعَة (ar) f (jumʕa)

  Egyptian Arabic: اسبوع m (ʔesbūʕ)

  Gulf Arabic: إسبوع m (ʔisbūʕ)

  Hijazi Arabic: أُسبوع m (ʔusbūʕ)

  Moroccan Arabic: سيمانة f (simāna), أُسبوع m (ʔusbūʕ), سيمانة (simāna)

  North Levantine Arabic: جمعة (jimʕa)

• Aragonese: semana f
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܫܒܘܥܐ, ܫܒܬܐ

• Armenian: շաբաթ (hy) (šabatʻ)
• Aromanian: siptãmãnã f, stãmãnã f, stãmene f
• Assamese: সপ্তাহ (xoptah)
• Asturian: selmana (ast) f, sermana f, semana (ast) f, semá f, 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: ты́ждень m (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: 星期 (sing¹ kei⁴), 禮拜／礼拜 (lai⁵ baai³)

  Dungan: щинчи (xinči), чи (či)

  Eastern Min: 禮拜／礼拜 (lā̤-bái)

  Hakka: 禮拜／礼拜 (lî-pai)

  Hokkien: 禮拜／礼拜 (zh-min-nan) (lé-pài)

  Mandarin: 星期 (zh) (xīngqī), 週／周 (zh) (zhōu), 禮拜／礼拜 (zh) (lǐbài)

  Wu: 星期 (¹shin-ji₆), 禮拜／礼拜 (⁶li-pa₅)

• Chuvash: эрне (erne)
• Corsican: settimana f, sittimana f, simana f
• Crimean Tatar: afta
• Czech: týden (cs) m
• Dalmatian: jedma f, setemúna f, setimuón
• Danish: uge (da) c
• Dhivehi: ހަފްތާ (haftā)
• Dutch: week (nl) f
• Emilian: stmèna
• Erzya: тарго (targo), недля (ńedľa)
• Esperanto: semajno (eo)
• Estonian: nädal (et)
• Fala: semana
• Faroese: vika f
• Fijian: macava (fj)
• Finnish: viikko (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: semana
• French: semaine (fr) f, huit jours (fr)
• Friulian: setemane f
• Galician: semana (gl) f, semá (gl) f, semán (gl) f, somana (gl) f, domá f
• Georgian: კვირა (ka) (ḳvira)
• German: Woche (de) f
• Gilbertese: wiki
• Gothic: 𐍅𐌹𐌺𐍉 f (wikō)
• Greek: εβδομάδα (el) f (evdomáda), επταήμερο (el) n (eptaḯmero), εφταήμερο (el) n (eftaḯmero)

  Ancient: ἑβδομάς f (hebdomás)

• Guaraní: arapokõindy
• Gujarati: અઠવાડિયું n (aṭhavāḍiyũ), સપ્તાહ n (saptāh), હપતો m (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: 週 (ja) (しゅう, shū), 週間 (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(週) (ko) (ju), 주일(週日) (ko) (ju'il)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: حەفتە (ḧefte)

  Northern Kurdish: heftê (ku)

• Kyrgyz: апта (ky) (apta), жума (ky) (juma), жетикүн (jetikün)
• Ladin: ena f, setemena f
• Ladino: semana, סימאנה
• Lak: нужмяр (nužmaˤr)
• Lao: ສັບດາ (sap dā), ສັບປະດາ (sap pa dā), ອາທິດ (lo) (ʼā thit), ສັດຕາຫະ (sat tā ha)
• Latgalian: nedeļa f
• Latin: hebdomas (la) f, septimāna f (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: седмица f (sedmica), недела (mk) f (nedela)
• Magahi: 𑂮𑂣𑂹𑂞𑂰𑂯 (saptāh)
• Maguindanao: saka padian
• 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: shiaghtin f
• Maori: wiki
• Maranao: padiqan
• Marathi: आठवडा (mr) (āṭhavḍā)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: арня (arńa)

• Mauritian Creole: semenn
• Megleno-Romanian: săptămănă f, săptămǫnă f, sămǫnă f, smǫnă f
• Middle Persian: 𐭤𐭯𐭲𐭪 (hptk /⁠haftag⁠/)
• Mirandese: sumana
• Mòcheno: boch f
• 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: semmana f, semana f
• Nepali: हप्‍ता (hapatā)
• Ngazidja Comorian: mfumo class 3/4
• Norman: s'maine f (Jersey), s'môine f (Guernsey)
• North Frisian: weg f
• Northern Mansi: ^{(please verify)} са̄т (sāt)
• Northern Sami: vahkku
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: uke (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: veke f, vika f (archaic, Høgnorsk)

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

  Cyrillic: седмица f (sedmica)

• Old East Slavic: тꙑижьдьнь f (tyižĭdĭnĭ), тꙑжьдьнь m (tyžĭdĭnĭ)
• Old English: wiċe f
• Old French: semeine f, semaine f
• Old Norse: vika f
• Old Saxon: wika f
• Oromo: torbee
• Ossetian: къуыри (k’°yri)
• Pannonian Rusyn: тидзень m (tidzenʹ)
• Papiamentu: siman
• Pashto: اونۍ f (onəy)
• Persian:

  Classical Persian: هَفْتَه (fa) (hafta)

  Dari: هَفْتَه (fa) (hafta)

  Iranian Persian: هَفْتِه (fa) (hafte)

• Piedmontese: sman-a
• Plautdietsch: Wäakj f
• Polish: tydzień (pl) m
• Portuguese: semana (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਹਫ਼ਤੇ (hafte)
• Quechua: simana (qu), hunk'a, qanchischaw
• Rohingya: hafta
• Romagnol: stmana f
• Romani: kurko m
• Romanian: săptămână (ro) f
• Romansch: emna f, emda f, jamna f, eamda
• Russian: неде́ля (ru) f (nedélja)
• Sabir: settimana
• Saho: liggidina
• Samoan: vaiaso
• Sanskrit: सप्ताह (sa) m (saptāha)
• Sardinian: chída f, chida f, chita f, cida f, cira f
• Scots: wouk
• Scottish Gaelic: seachdain f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: недеља f, нѐдјеља f, нѐђеља f, те̏дан m, тје̏дан m, сѐдмица f

  Roman: nèdelja (sh) f, nèdjelja (sh) f, nèđelja (sh) f, tȅdan m, tjȅdan (sh) m, sèdmica (sh) f

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

  Lower Sorbian: tyźeń m

  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: sumáne f, sumana f
• 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), سَپْتاہ m (saptāh) (rare)
• Uyghur: ھەپتە (hepte)
• Uzbek: hafta (uz)
• Venda: vhege
• Venetan: setimana (vec) f, stemana f, stimana f, setemana f
• 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) day of the week; Sunday,‎ Monday,‎ Tuesday,‎ Wednesday,‎ Thursday,‎ Friday,‎ Saturday ^{(Category: en:Days of the week) [edit]}
• calendar
• Sabbath

Further reading

• ISO 8601 on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch week, from Middle Dutch weke, from Old Dutch *wika, from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *weyg- (“to bend, wind, turn, yield”). Compare English week, West Frisian wike, German Woche.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

week (plural weke)

1. week

   Daar is sewe dae in die week. ― There are seven days in the week.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋeːk/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: week
• Rhymes: -eːk

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch wēke, from Old Dutch *wika, from Proto-West Germanic *wikā, from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *weyg- (“to bend, wind, turn, yield”).

Noun

week f (plural weken, diminutive weekje n)

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

From Middle Dutch wêec, from Old Dutch *wēk, from Proto-West Germanic *waikw, from Proto-Germanic *waikwaz.

Adjective

week (comparative weker, superlative weekst)

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

Declension

Declension of week
uninflected	week
inflected	weke
comparative	weker
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		week	weker	het weekst het weekste
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 corresponding lemma form.

Verb

week

1. inflection of weken:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Verb

week

1. singular past indicative of wijken

Anagrams

• kwee
• weke

Middle English

Noun

week

1. Alternative form of weke (“week”)