Friday

English

Etymology

From Middle English Friday, from Old English frīġedæġ. Compound of Frīġ and dæġ (“day”), from Proto-West Germanic *Frījā dag, a calque of Latin diēs Veneris, via an association (interpretātiō germānica) of the goddess Frigg with the Roman goddess of love Venus.

Compare West Frisian freed, German Low German Freedag, Friedag, Dutch vrijdag, German Freitag, Danish fredag. Old Norse Frigg (genitive Friggjar), Old Saxon Fri, and Old English Frīġ are derived from Proto-Germanic *Frijjō. Frigg is cognate with Sanskrit प्रिया (priyā́, “wife”). The root also appears in Old Saxon fri (“beloved lady”); in Swedish fria, in Danish and Norwegian as fri (“to propose for marriage”); a related meaning exists in Icelandic as frjá (“to love”) and similarly in Dutch vrijen (“to make love (to have sex)”).

Compare Japanese 金曜日.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: frīʹdā, frīʹdē, IPA^(key): /ˈfɹaɪdeɪ/, /-di/

• Audio (Received Pronunciation):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹaɪˌdeɪ/, /-ˌdi/

• Audio (General American):

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• Rhymes: -aɪdeɪ, -aɪdi
• Hyphenation: Fri‧day

Noun

Friday (plural Fridays)

2. The sixth day of the week in many religious traditions, and the fifth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; the Muslim “Sabbath”; it follows Thursday and precedes Saturday.
   • 2019 September 13, Matthew Cappucci, “For the first time in 13 years, a full moon rises this Friday the 13th”, in The Washington Post‎, archived from the original on 2020-10-29:

     For a micromoon and Friday the 13th full moon to occur together is extraordinarily rare. The last time it happened was in 1832 and it won't happen again for more than 500 years according to Tony Rice, a meteorologist and engineer at NASA.

   • 2020 March 30, T.W. Lewis, Solid Ground: A Foundation For Winning In Work and In Life, T.W. Lewis, →ISBN:

     Their mindset is the grindset, and they love the grind. I used to have a sales manager who didn't think this way. On Fridays, he'd always say, “Happy Friday.” A lot of people feel that way, but I never liked that phrase because it […]

3. (colloquial, with possessive) The last workday in a work schedule that is not Monday through Friday.

   Tomorrow's Thursday, but I have Friday and Saturday off, so really it's my Friday.

Synonyms

• Fri, Fri. (abbreviations)

Symbols

• F, Fr
• ♀ (archaic)

Hypernyms

• day

Hyponyms

• Black Friday
• Bloody Friday
• casual Friday
• dress-down Friday
• expiration Friday
• First Friday
• gal Friday
• girl Friday
• Girl Friday
• Golden Friday
• Good Friday
• Great and Holy Friday
• Great Friday
• guy Friday
• Hollywood Black Friday
• Holy Friday
• Long Friday
• man Friday
• Man Friday
• Marlboro Friday
• next sitting Friday
• person Friday
• Red Friday
• thank God it's Friday
• thank goodness it's Friday
• virtual Friday

Derived terms

• Black Friday
• Friday-face
• Friday-faced
• Friday-fare
• Friday-feat
• Friday Harbor (from the surname)
• Fridayish
• Fridayitis
• Friday-look
• Fridays
• that'll be the frosty Friday
• virtual Friday

Related terms

• Friday afternoon car
• Friday car
• Friday Eve
• Friday fast
• Friday hat
• Friday Mosque
• Friday night death slot
• Friday Prayer
• Friday the thirteenth
• Friday tree
• when two Fridays come together

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: Fraide
• → Maori: Paraire

Translations

day of the week

Abkhaz: ахәаша (axʷaŝa) Adyghe: бэрэскэшху (bɛrɛskɛšxʷu) Afrikaans: Vrydag (af) Aghwan: 𐕗𐔰𐕙𐔰𐕚𐕄𐔴 (ṗarasḳe) Akan: Fiada Alabama: atáɬɬàapi, nihta istáɬɬàapi Albanian: e premte (sq) Alutiiq: Tallimiin Amharic: ዓርብ (ʿarb) Arabic: الْجُمُعَة (ar) f (al-jumuʕa), الجُمْعَة (ar) f (al-jumʕa), يَوْم الْجُمُعَة m (yawm al-jumuʕa), يَوْم الجُمْعَة m (yawm al-jumʕa) Egyptian Arabic: الجمعة f (el-gómʕa) Gulf Arabic: يوم اليمعة m (yōm ʔil-yimʕa) Aragonese: viernes (an) Aramaic: ערובתא f (ʿruvta) Armenian: ուրբաթ (hy) (urbatʻ) Old Armenian: ուրբաթ (urbatʻ) Aromanian: viniri (roa-rup), vinjiri, Vinjiri Assamese: শুক্রবাৰ Asturian: vienres (ast) m Atikamekw: tcipaiatikw kicikaw Avar: Рузман (Ruzman) Azerbaijani: cümə (az) Bashkir: йома (yoma) Basque: ostiral (eu) Bats: პარასკ (ṗarasḳ), პარასკინა̄ (ṗarasḳinā) Belarusian: пя́тніца f (pjátnica) Bengali: শুক্রবার (bn) (śukrobar), জুম্মাবার (bn) (jummabar) Blackfoot: mamiiksistsiko Breton: Gwener (br) m, digwener (br) (adverb) Buginese: juma Bulgarian: пе́тък (bg) m (pétǎk) Burmese: သောကြာ (my) (sau:kra) Buryat: пятница (pjatnica), баасан (baasan) Catalan: divendres (ca) m Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵙⴰⵎ (sam) Chechen: пӏераска (pʼeraska) Cherokee: ᏧᎾᎩᎶᏍᏗ (tsunagilosdi) Chichewa: Lachisanu Chickasaw: Nittak Ishtalhlha'pi' Chinese: Cantonese: 星期五 (sing1 kei4 ng5), 禮拜五 / 礼拜五 (lai5 baai3 ng5), 周五 (zau1 ng5) Dungan: щинчиву (xinčivu), либэву (libevu), җўма (žwma) Eastern Min: 禮拜五 / 礼拜五 (lā̤-bái-ngô), 拜五 (bái-ngô) Hakka: 拜五 (pai-ńg) Hokkien: 禮拜五 / 礼拜五 (lé-pài-gō͘), 拜五 (pài-gō͘) Mandarin: 星期五 (zh) (xīngqīwǔ), 禮拜五 / 礼拜五 (zh) (lǐbàiwǔ), 周五 (zhōuwǔ) Wu: 禮拜五 / 礼拜五 (6li-pa-ng) Chuvash: эрнекун (ernek̬un) Cornish: Gwener, de Gwener, dy'Gwener Corsican: vennari (co), venneri (co) Crimean Tatar: cuma Czech: pátek (cs) m Dakota: Aŋpetu Izaptaŋ Dalmatian: vindre Danish: fredag (da) c Dutch: vrijdag (nl) m Dzongkha: སྤེན་པ (spen pa) Erzya: сюконьчи (śukońči), пеця (peća) Esperanto: vendredo (eo) Estonian: reede (et) Extremaduran: viernis Farefare: Arzũma Faroese: fríggjadagur (fo) m Fijian: siga Vakaraubuka Finnish: perjantai (fi) Franco-Provençal: divendres, di-Vendres French: vendredi (fr) m Friulian: vinars Galician: venres (gl) m, sexta feira (gl) f Georgian: პარასკევი (ka) (ṗarasḳevi) German: Freitag (de) m Gilbertese: Danimabong Greek: Παρασκευή (el) f (Paraskeví) Greenlandic: tallimanngorneq Guaraní: arapoteĩ, arapoteĩ Gujarati: શુક્રવાર (gu) m (śukravār) Gurani: ئادینە (adîne) Haitian Creole: vandredi Hausa: Jumma'a Hawaiian: Pōʻalima Hebrew: יוֹם שִׁשִּׁי (he) m (yom shishí), יוֹם ו' m (yom vav) Hiligaynon: Biyernes Hindi: शुक्रवार (hi) m (śukravār), शुक्र (hi) m (śukra), जुमा (hi) m (jumā) Hungarian: péntek (hu) Icelandic: föstudagur (is) m Ido: venerdio (io) Inari Sami: vástuppeivi Indonesian: Jumat (id) Ingush: пӏаьраска (pʼäraska) Interlingua: venerdi (ia) Irish: Aoine (ga) f Italian: venerdì (it) m Japanese: 金曜日 (ja) (きんようび, kin'yōbi), 金曜 (ja) (きんよう, kin'yō) Kabardian: мэрем (kbd) (mɛrem) Kalmyk: басң өдр (basñ ödr) Karakalpak: juma Karelian: piätteniččy Kashmiri: جُمعہ (ks) (jumāh), شۆکُروار (ks) (śokurvār) Kashubian: piątk (csb) m Kazakh: жұма (kk) (jūma) Khmer: ថ្ងៃសុក្រ (km) (thngay sok) Komi-Permyak: пекнича (pekńića) Kongo: Lumbu kia ntanu Korean: 금요일(金曜日) (ko) (geumyoil), 금요(金曜) (ko) (geumyo) Kumyk: жумагюн (jumagün) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: ھھینی (hhînî), جمعھ (cim'hi) Northern Kurdish: în (ku) f, înî (ku), eynî (ku) f, cume (ku) f Kusaal: arzũm daat Kyrgyz: жума (ky) (juma) Ladin: vender Lakota: Aŋpétu Záptaŋ Lao: ວັນສຸກ (lo) (wan suk), ສຸກ (suk) Latin: diēs Veneris (la) m or f, parascēvē f (Late Latin), fēria sexta f (ecclesiastical) Latvian: piektdiena (lv) f Laz: პარასკე (p̌arasǩe), ობიჩხა (obiçxa) Lezgi: жумя (žumä) Limburgish: vriedig (li) Lithuanian: penktadienis (lt) m Livonian: brēḑig Lombard: venerdi Louisiana Creole French: vendredi, vendrédi Low German: Dutch Low Saxon: vriedag m German Low German: Freedag m Lower Sorbian: pětk m Lü: ᦞᧃᦉᦳᧅ (vanṡuk) Luganda: Lwakutaano Luxembourgish: Freiden (lb) m, Freideg (lb) m Macedonian: петок (mk) m (petok) Makasar: juma Malay: Jawi: جمعة, هاري ليم (Sabah, Singapore) Rumi: Jumaat (ms), Hari Lima (ms) (Sabah, Singapore) Malayalam: വെള്ളിയാഴ്ച (ml) (veḷḷiyāḻca) Maltese: il-Ġimgħa Manchu: ᠠᡳᠰᡳᠨ ᡠᠰᡳᠩᡤᡳ (aisin usinggi) Manx: Jeheiney Maori: Paraire, Rārima, Rāmere Marathi: शुक्रवार (mr) m (śukravār) Mari: Eastern Mari: кугарня (kugarńa) Mauritian Creole: vandredi Mingrelian: ობიშხა (obišxa) Mirandese: sesta-feira Mòcheno: vraita m Mokilese: nialim Mongolian: Cyrillic: баасан (mn) (baasan) (written), тав дахь өдөр (tav daxʹ ödör) (spoken), гарагийн таван (garagiin tavan) (China) Mongolian: ᠪᠠᠰᠠᠩ (basang) ᠲᠠᠪᠤ ᠳᠠᠬᠢ ᠡᠳᠦᠷ (tabu daki edür), ᠭᠠᠷᠠᠭ ᠦᠨ ᠲᠠᠪᠤᠨ (ɣarag-ün tabun) Moore: arzũma Navajo: Ndaʼiiníísh Neapolitan: viernarì North Frisian: Föhr-Amrum: freidai Mooring: fraidi Sylt: Friidai Norwegian: Bokmål: fredag (no) m Nynorsk: fredag (nn) m Occitan: divendres (oc) m Odia: ଶୁକ୍ରବାର (śukrabāra) Ojibwe: naanogiizhigad Old Church Slavonic: Cyrillic: пѧтъкъ m (pętŭkŭ) Old English: frīġedæġ m Old High German: frīatag m, pherintag m Old Norse: frjádagr m Oromo: Jimmata Ossetian: Digor: майрӕнбон (majrænbon) Iron: майрӕмбон (majræmbon) Pannonian Rusyn: пияток m (pijatok) Papiamentu: djabièrnè Pashto: آدينه f (ādiná), جمعه (ps) f (jum'á) Pennsylvania German: Freidaag Persian: Dari: آدِینَه (ādīna), جُمْعَه (jum'a) Iranian Persian: آدینِه (âdine), جُمْعِه (jom'e) Piedmontese: vëner m, vënner m Plautdietsch: Friedach m Polish: piątek (pl) m inan Portuguese: sexta-feira (pt) f, sexta (pt) f Punjabi: Gurmukhi: ਸ਼ੁੱਕਰਵਾਰ (pa) m (śukkarvār), ਜੁਮਾ (pa) (jumā) Quechua: ch'askachaw Rohingya: jumá Romani: paraśtuj f Romanian: vineri (ro) f Romansch: venderdi m, venderdis m, vendergis m, vendarde m Russian: пя́тница (ru) f (pjátnica) Rwanda-Rundi: Kwagatanu Sami: Northern: bearjadat Samoan: Aso Faraile Sanskrit: शुक्रवार (sa) m (śukravāra) Sardinian: canàbara, chenàbura f, cenàbara Scottish Gaelic: Dihaoine (gd) m Semai: Jumaat Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: пе́так m Roman: pétak (sh) m Seychellois Creole: vandredi Shona: Chishanu Sicilian: vènniri (scn) m, venniridìa (scn) m Sindhi: جُمعو (sd), ٿاروُن, ٿانرُ, شُڪرُ Sinhalese: සිකුරාදා (si) (sikurādā) Skolt Sami: piâtnâc Slovak: piatok (sk) m Slovene: pétek (sl) m Somali: jimco Sotho: Labohlano (st) Spanish: viernes (es) m Sranan Tongo: freida Svan: უ̂ებიშ (ûebiš) Swahili: Ijumaa Swazi: Lesíhlánu Swedish: fredag (sv) c Tabasaran: жвуми (ž°umi) Tagalog: Biyernes (tl), biyernes Tahitian: mahana pae Tajik: ҷумъа (tg) (jumʾa), одина (tg) (odina) Tamil: வெள்ளி (ta) (veḷḷi) Taos: míalnąsi Tarantino: venerdìe Tatar: җомга (tt) (comga) Tausug: Jumaat Telugu: శుక్రవారము (te) (śukravāramu) Tetum: loron-sesta Thai: วันศุกร์ (th) (wan sùk), ศุกร์ (th) (sùk) Tibetan: གཟའ་པ་སངས (gza' pa sangs) Tigrinya: ዓርቢ (ti) (ʿarbi) Tok Pisin: Fraide (tpi) Tongan: Falaite Tswana: Labotlhano (tn) Turkish: cuma (tr) Turkmen: anna (tk), juma Udi: пӏараскӏи (ṗarasḳi) Udmurt: пятница (patńica), удмуртарня (udmurtarńa) Ukrainian: п'я́тниця (uk) f (pʺjátnycja) Upper Sorbian: pjatk m Urdu: جُمْعَہ (ur) m (jum'a), شُکْرْوار m (śukrvār), شُکْر m (śukr), آدِینَہ (ur) m (ādīna), بَھرْگوبار m (bhargobār) Uyghur: جۈمە (ug) (jüme) Uzbek: juma (uz) Vai: ꔱꕞꔤꔐ (Fíláide), ꕉꔤꕀꕮ (Aijíma) Venetan: vènere m, vénare (vec) Veps: videnz'päiv Vietnamese: thứ sáu (vi) (lit.: number six) Volapük: fridel (vo), mälüdel, flidel Võro: riidi Walloon: vénrdi (wa), divénr (wa) Welsh: dydd Gwener (cy) m West Frisian: freed (fy) Winnebago: Hąąp Hisacąhą Wolof: àjjuma (wo) Xhosa: uLwesihlanu Yakan: Juma'at Yakut: бээтинсэ (beetinse) Yiddish: פֿרײַטאָג m (fraytog) Yup'ik: Tallimirin Zazaki: êne (diq), yene (diq), yenne, enne, ine (diq) Zulu: uLwesihlanu

References

• Friday on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Week-day names on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Adverb

Friday (not comparable)

1. (US, Canada, informal in UK) On Friday.

Translations

on Friday

Bulgarian: петъчен (petǎčen) Faroese: fríggjadagin Finnish: perjantaina (fi) Galician: o venres Georgian: პარასკევს (ṗarasḳevs) German: freitags (de), am Freitag Ingrian: päätetsä, viijespäivä Irish: Dé hAoine (ga) Latvian: piektdien Lithuanian: penktadienį Macedonian: во петок (vo petok), петочно (petočno), петочко (petočko) Manx: Jeheiney Marathi: शुक्रवारी (śukravārī) Portuguese: sexta-feira (pt), sexta (pt) Romanian: vineri (ro), vinerea (ro) Scottish Gaelic: Dihaoine (gd) Spanish: el viernes Volapük: fridelo, mälüdelo, flidelo Welsh: ddydd Gwener Zazaki: yene (diq)

See also

• days of the week (appendix): Sunday · Monday · Tuesday · Wednesday · Thursday · Friday · Saturday ^[edit]

Anagrams

• fraidy

Middle English

Alternative forms

• ffryday, Freday, fridai, Fryda, fryday, Vriday, vridei
• fridæi, Fridæig, friȝdæi (Early Middle English)

Etymology

From Old English frīġedæġ. Forms with -e- are possibly after Old Norse freadagr, frjádagr, but may also represent the regular phonological development of frīġedæġ in some dialects.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfriːdɛi̯/, /ˈfreːdæi̯/

Proper noun

Friday

1. Friday

Descendants

• English: Friday
  • Tok Pisin: Fraide
  • → Maori: Paraire
• Scots: Friday
• Yola: Vreedie, Vridei, vreedei

References

• “frī-dai, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

See also

• days of the week: weke-dayes (appendix): Sunnenday · Monday · Tewesday · Wednesday · Thursday · Friday · Saterday ^[edit]