day

See also: Appendix:Variations of "day"

Translingual

Symbol

day

(international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Land Dayak languages.

English

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day

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

daie, daye (obsolete)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ-?

Proto-Germanic *dagaz

Proto-West Germanic *dag

Old English dæġ

Middle English day

English day

Inherited from Middle English day, from Old English dæġ, from Proto-West Germanic *dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz (“day”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”).

Cognates

Cognate with Scots day, dei, dey, dy (“day”), Yola daie, dei, dey, die (“day”), North Frisian dai, doi, däi (“day”), Saterland Frisian Dai (“day”), West Frisian dei (“day”), Bavarian Dåg, Tåg (“day”), Central Franconian Daach (“day”), Cimbrian tag, tage (“day”), Dutch dag, dagge (“day”), German Tag (“day”), German Low German Dag, Dagg (“day”), Limburgish Daach, Daag (“day”), Luxembourgish Dag (“day”), Mòcheno ta (“day”), Vilamovian taog (“day”), West Flemish dag (“day”), Yiddish טאָג (tog, “day”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish dag (“day”), Faroese and Icelandic dagur (“day”), Norn dagh (“day”), Crimean Gothic tag (“day”), Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍃 (dags, “day”), Vandalic *dag- (“day”); also Breton deviñ (“to burn”), Cornish dewi (“to kindle”), Irish daigh (“fire, flame”), dóigh (“to burn, singe; sear, scorch”), Manx daah (“to scorch, singe; to cauterize”), Scottish Gaelic dòth (“scorch, singe; burn”), Welsh deifio (“to scorch, singe”), Latin foveō (“to warm, keep warm”), Greek τέφρα (téfra, “ash, cinder”), Albanian dhez, ndez (“to kindle, light”), Old Prussian dagis (“summer”), Armenian հրդեհ (hrdeh, “fire”), Sanskrit दह् (dah, “to burn, consume by fire, scorch, roast”).

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /deɪ̯/
- Audio (Received Pronunciation); “a day”: (file)
- Audio (Received Pronunciation): (file)
- Audio (California); [deː]: (file)
(Australia, General) IPA^(key): /dæɪ̯/
(Australia, Cultivated) IPA^(key): [dɛɪ̯]
- Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -eɪ
Hyphenation: day
Homophones: Day, dey, Dey

Noun

day (plural days)

The time when the Sun is above the horizon and it lights the sky.
Synonyms: daylight; see also Thesaurus:daytime

Antonyms: night; see also Thesaurus:nighttime

day and night; I work at night and sleep during the day.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
  The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, […].
A period of time equal or almost equal to a full day-night cycle, being 24 hours long.
Alternative form: d (symbol)

Synonyms: twenty-four hour day, 24-hour day; nychthemeron (uncommon)

Holonyms: week < megasecond < fortnight < month < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond

Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond < minute < hectosecond < kilosecond < hour

I've been here for two days and a bit.
1. The time taken for the Sun to seem to be in the same place in the sky twice; a solar day.
2. The time taken for the Earth to make a full rotation about its axis with respect to the fixed stars; a sidereal day or stellar day.
(informal or meteorology) A 24-hour period beginning at 6am or sunrise.
Your 8am forecast: The high for the day will be 30 and the low, before dawn, will be 10.
A period of time between two set times which mark the beginning and the end of day in a calendar, such as from midnight to the following midnight or (Judaism) from nightfall to the following nightfall.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:day

The day begins at midnight.

Monday is the first day of the week in many countries of the world.
(astronomy) The rotational period of a planet.
A day on Mars is slightly over 24 hours.
- 1990 August, Rick Gore, “Neptune: Voyager's Last Picture Show”, in National Geographic, volume 178, number 2, page 39:
  Radio emissions indicate that a Neptunian day lasts 16.1 hours, an hour and a half shorter than previously thought.
The part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc.
I worked two days last week.
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
  “ […] if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery. […]”
An observance lasting for a day, such as an annual holiday.
Christmas Day

Remembrance Day
A day set aside for a specified activity.
leg day, moving day, observation day
A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time; era.
Synonyms: era, epoch; see also Thesaurus:era

every dog has its day; in that day; back in the day; in those days
- 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
  This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.
- 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
  If they had no more food than they had had in Jones's day, at least they did not have less.
- 2011, Kat Martin, A Song for My Mother‎^[200], Vanguard Press, →ISBN:
  In his senior year, he had run across an old '66 Chevy Super Sport headed for the junkyard, bought it for a song, and overhauled it with his dad's help, turning it into the big red muscle car it was back in its day.
A period of contention of a day or less.
The day belonged to the Allies.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

some may be hyponyms (unsorted)

Related terms

Descendants

→ Cameroon Pidgin: dey
→ Sranan Tongo: dei
→ Tok Pisin: de

Translations

See day/translations § Noun.

Verb

day (third-person singular simple present days, present participle daying, simple past and past participle dayed)

(rare, intransitive) To spend a day (in a place).
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXIII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 233:
  I nighted and dayed in Damascus town[.]

References

Day (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

d'ya, y'ad, yad

Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic		дај
Arabic		دای

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Common Turkic *dāy.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [dɑj]
Audio (Baku): (file)

Noun

day (definite accusative dayı, plural daylar)

colt, foal

Declension

Declension of *day*
	singular	plural
nominative	day	daylar
definite accusative	dayı	dayları
dative	daya	daylara
locative	dayda	daylarda
ablative	daydan	daylardan
definite genitive	dayın	dayların

Possessive forms of *day*
	nominative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	dayım	daylarım
sənin (“your”)	dayın	dayların
onun (“his/her/its”)	dayı	dayları
bizim (“our”)	dayımız	daylarımız
sizin (“your”)	dayınız	daylarınız
onların (“their”)	dayı or dayları	dayları

	accusative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	dayımı	daylarımı
sənin (“your”)	dayını	daylarını
onun (“his/her/its”)	dayını	daylarını
bizim (“our”)	dayımızı	daylarımızı
sizin (“your”)	dayınızı	daylarınızı
onların (“their”)	dayını or daylarını	daylarını

	dative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	dayıma	daylarıma
sənin (“your”)	dayına	daylarına
onun (“his/her/its”)	dayına	daylarına
bizim (“our”)	dayımıza	daylarımıza
sizin (“your”)	dayınıza	daylarınıza
onların (“their”)	dayına or daylarına	daylarına

	locative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	dayımda	daylarımda
sənin (“your”)	dayında	daylarında
onun (“his/her/its”)	dayında	daylarında
bizim (“our”)	dayımızda	daylarımızda
sizin (“your”)	dayınızda	daylarınızda
onların (“their”)	dayında or daylarında	daylarında

	ablative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	dayımdan	daylarımdan
sənin (“your”)	dayından	daylarından
onun (“his/her/its”)	dayından	daylarından
bizim (“our”)	dayımızdan	daylarımızdan
sizin (“your”)	dayınızdan	daylarınızdan
onların (“their”)	dayından or daylarından	daylarından

	genitive
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	dayımın	daylarımın
sənin (“your”)	dayının	daylarının
onun (“his/her/its”)	dayının	daylarının
bizim (“our”)	dayımızın	daylarımızın
sizin (“your”)	dayınızın	daylarınızın
onların (“their”)	dayının or daylarının	daylarının

Derived terms

dayça

Descendants

→ Lezgi: тай (taj) (or < Kumyk)

References

Orucov, Əliheydər, editor (2006), “day”, in Azərbaycan dilinin izahlı lüğəti [Explanatory Dictionary of the Azerbaijani Language]‎^[1] (in Azerbaijani), 2nd edition, volume 1, Baku: Şərq-Qərb, page 552
Clauson, Gerard (1972), “ta:y”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC

Cebuano

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *inda

Cebuano -ay

?

the BMAC substratebor.?

Proto-Indo-Iranian *síndʰuš

▲

Proto-Indo-Iranian *síndʰuš

Sanskrit सिन्धु॑ (síndhu)bor.

Proto-Iranian *hínduš

Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 (hiⁿdūš)bor.

Ancient Greek Ἰνδός (Indós)

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂

Proto-Hellenic *-íā

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)

Ancient Greek Ἰνδία (Indía)bor.

Latin Indialbor.

Spanish India

Spanish indio

Spanish india

Cebuano -ay

?

Cebuano indayclip.

Cebuano day

Clipping of inday.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdaj/ [ˈd̪ai̯]
Rhymes: -aɪ
Hyphenation: day

Noun

day

(colloquial) common term of address to a girl
Coordinate term: dong
common term of address to one's daughter

Hawaiian Creole

Etymology

From English day.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /deɪ/, /deː/

Noun

day

day

Kalasha

Verb

day

I am

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English dæġ, from Proto-West Germanic *dag.

Alternative forms

dai, daye, dey
daȝȝ, daiȝ, dæi, dæȝ, dei (Early Middle English)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dæi̯/
IPA^(key): /daj/, /dɛj/ (Early Middle English)

Noun

day (plural dayes or dawes)

A day; a period of 24 hours or between sunrises.
- p. 1154, “AD 1137”, in Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (MS. Laud Misc. 636, continuation), Peterborough, folio 89, verso; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 8 February 2018:
  Þu myhteſ faren al a dæiſ fare ſculdeſt thu neure finden man in tun ſittende · ne land tiled.
  You could go a whole day's journey, but you'd never find anyone in town or any tilled fields.
- 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The [Clerkys] Tale [of Oxenford]”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 184, verso, lines 783-784:
  Toward Saluces / shapyng hir iourney / ffro day to day / they ryden in hir wey […]
  Towards Saluzzo they make their journey, / From day to day they ride on their way […]
Daytime; day as opposed to night.
- a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Genesis 1:5”, in Wycliffe's Bible:
  and he clepide the liȝt, dai, and the derkneſſis, nyȝt. And the euentid and morwetid was maad, o daie.
  And he called light "day" and the darkness "night". And the evening and morning was made; one day.
An epoch, age, or period.
An particular day or period.
Daylight, sunlight; the light of day.
(architecture) A section of a window split into mullions.

Declension

Declension of *day*
	singular	plural
(nominative/accusative)	day	dayes, dawes
genitive	dayes	dayes, dawes, dawene
dative	daye¹	dawen²

¹Optional; mostly fossilised after Early Middle English.
²Only found in Early Middle English and optional there.

Antonyms

nyght

Related terms

Descendants

English: day
Scots: day, dey, dei, dy
Yola: die, daie, dei, dey

References

“dai, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 20 March 2018.

Etymology 2

Pronoun

day

alternative form of þei (“they”)

Scots

Alternative forms

dey; dei, dy

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ-?

Proto-Germanic *dagaz

Proto-West Germanic *dag

Old English dæġ

Middle English day

Scots day

Inherited from Middle English day, from Old English dæġ, from Proto-West Germanic *dag.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dɪ/, /deː/
(Buchan) IPA^(key): /dəi̯/
(Shetland) IPA^(key): /dai̯/

Noun

day (plural days)

day
(in the definite singular) today
A'm sorry, A've no seen Angus the day.
I'm sorry, I haven't seen Angus today.

References

“day, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
“dei, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

Tagalog

Pronunciation

(Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈdaj/ [ˈd̪aɪ̯]
Rhymes: -aj
Syllabification: day

Noun

day (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜌ᜔)

alternative spelling of 'day

Talysh

Etymology

Borrowed from Azerbaijani dayı.

Noun

day

maternal uncle

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zaj˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [jaj˧˧]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [ja(ː)j˧˧]

Verb

day

to rub
- 2016, chapter 2, in Nguyễn Đức Vịnh, transl., Đừng nói chuyện với cô ấy, part I, NXB Phụ Nữ, translation of 别和她说话 by Yù Jǐn (Ngộ Cẩn):
  Tôi đặt bút xuống, khẽ liếm môi, lại đưa tay day mắt, cảm thấy mình như vừa tỉnh mộng.
  I put down my pen, gently licked my lips, and lifted my hand to again rub my eyes, feeling as if I had just woken up from a dream.