Day

From Fresh Dictionary

Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Derived terms 1.3.2 Translations 1.4 Adjective

English

Etymology

Middle English < Old English dæg < Proto-Germanic *dagaz < Proto-Indo-European *dhegh- (to burn). Not related to Latin dies (which is from PIE base *dyeu- [to shine]), but rather to Sanskrit dāhas (heat), which came from PIE *dhegh- (to burn). Cognates include Swedish dag and German Tag (day).

Pronunciation

• dā, /deɪ/, /deI/

  Rhymes: -eɪ

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Noun

day (plural: days)

1. A period of 24 hours.
2. The period from midnight to the following midnight. There are 7 days in a week: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
3. Rotational period of a planet (especially earth).
4. The part of a day(3) which one spends at one’s job, school, etc. The meaning of "I worked two days last week" is not the same as "I worked 48 hours last week." With hours, you count only the hours you spend working. With days, if you work a full shift, you count it as a day.
5. Period of day³ between sunrise and sunset where one enjoys daylight. Daytime. Re: "day and night".

Derived terms

• daily
• daybreak
• daydream
• daylight
• day return
• daystar
• daytime
• day trip
• day boarder
• day bed

Translations

Albanian: ditë f Afrikaans: dag Arabic: يَوْمٌ (yaum) m., أيّامٌ (’ayyām) pl. Breton: deiz m., deizioù pl.; devezh m., devezhioù pl. Bulgarian: ден (den) m. Catalan: dia m. ^, jorn m. Chinese: 天 (tiān), 日 (rì), 辰 (chén), 日子 (rì-zi) Croatian: dan m. Czech: den m. Danish: døgn (1, 3), dag (2,4,5) Dutch: dag m. (1,2,3,4,5), etmaal n. (1,3) Esperanto: tago Estonian: päev, ööpäev (1) Finnish: päivä (1,2,3,4,5), vuorokausi (1,3) French: jour m. Frisian: dei German: Tag m., Tage pl. ^ Greek: ημέρα (also μέρα) ([i]méra) (1,2,3,4,5) f., ημερονύχτιο (imeroníkhtio) n. (1,2), εικοσιτετράωρο (ikositetráoro) n. (1,3) Guaraní: ára Hawaiian: lā, ao Hebrew: יום (yôm) m. Hungarian: nap Icelandic: dagur Ido: dio Ilocano: aldaw Indonesian: hari (1,2) Irish: lá Italian: giorno m. Interlingua: die Japanese: 日 (ひ, hi / にち, nichí) (1); 曜日 (ようび, yōbi) (2); 昼 (ひる, hirú), 昼間 (ひるま, hirumá), 日中 (にっちゅう, nítchū)

Korean: 일 (il), 날 (nal), 하루 (haru) Kurdish: roj Lakota: ãpetu Latin: dies m and f (diei) Lithuanian: diena Latvian diena f. Lojban: djedi (1,2), donri (3) Malay: hari Maltese: jum Maori: raa, ao Norwegian: dag c. (2,4,5) Ojibwe: giizhig, giizhigoon pl. Old English: dæġ m, dōgor n Persian: روز (rūz) Polish: dzień m. (1,2,3,4,5), doba f. (1,3) Portuguese: dia m. Romanian: zi f. Russian: день (den’) m., дни (dni) pl. Sardinian (Campidanese): di m f Sardinian (Nugorese): díe m f Scottish Gaelic: latha Serbian: дан (dan) m. Slovak: deň m. Slovene: dan m. Spanish: día m. Swahili: siku Swedish: dag c. (1,2,3,4,5), dygn (1,3) Tagalog: araw Telugu: రోజు (rōǧu), దినము (dinamu) (1,2,3,4), పగలు (pagalu) (5) Thai: วัน (wân), ทิพ (thip), วาร (wān) Tok Pisin: de (1,2,3,4,5) Tupinambá: 'ara Turkish: gün (1,2,3,4,5), gündüz (5) Ukrainian: день (den’) m. Welsh: dydd Wolof: bés Yiddish: טאג (tog)

Adjective

day

1. Occurring during daylight hours. E.g., "Don’t give up your day job."; "She works the day shift."ang:day

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