Sunday

Sunday

See also: sunday

English

Etymology

From Middle English Sonday, from Old English sunnandæġ (“day of the sun”), from sunne (“sun”), + dæġ (“day”), from Proto-West Germanic *sunnōn dag, as a translation (interpretātiō germānica) of Latin diēs Sōlis; declared the "venerable day of the sun" by Roman Emperor Constantine on March 7, 321 C.E..

Compare Saterland Frisian Sundai (“Sunday”), German Low German Sünndag, Dutch zondag, West Frisian snein, German Sonntag, Danish søndag.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌn.deɪ/, /ˈsʌn.di/
• enPR: sŭnʹdā, sŭnʹdē

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• Rhymes: -ʌndeɪ, Rhymes: -ʌndi
• Homophones: sundae, sandhi

Noun

Sunday (plural Sundays)

1. The first day of the week in many religious traditions, and the seventh day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 standard; the Christian Sabbath; the Lord's Day; it follows Saturday and precedes Monday.
   • 2012 June 19, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport‎:

     And after missing a simple header in the first half, the Manchester United striker ensured England topped Group D to set up a quarter-final meeting with Italy in Kiev on Sunday.

2. (informal) A newspaper published on Sunday.
   • 1974, John le Carré, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy:

     I gave him the switchboard with my love, went down to the Savoy for breakfast and read the Sundays.

3. (informal) A comic strip published in a Sunday newspaper.
   • 2017, Mark Arnold, Pocket Full of Dennis the Menace

     It just wasn't his thing, although he did beautiful Sundays for however long he did them. So as soon as he could, he hired someone to do the Sundays. Karen and I would do some dailies, but we were the Sunday artists.

Synonyms

• Sun, Sun., Su

Hypernyms

• day

Hyponyms

• Albless Sunday
• Alb Sunday
• Antipascha Sunday
• Ascension Sunday
• Black Sunday
• Bloody Sunday
• Branch Sunday
• cannonball Sunday
• Cantate Sunday
• Care Sunday
• Carling Sunday
• Chestnut Sunday
• Christmas Sunday
• Cold Sunday
• Communion Sunday
• Divine Mercy Sunday
• Easter Sunday
• Expectation Sunday
• Fast Sunday
• Fig Sunday
• Garland Sunday
• Gaudete Sunday
• God's Sunday
• Good Shepherd Sunday
• Greasy Sunday
• Hall' Sunday
• Hospital Sunday
• Jubilate Sunday
• Judica Sunday
• Justice Sunday
• Laetare Sunday
• Low Sunday
• Mid-fast Sunday
• Mid-Lent Sunday
• Mothering Sunday
• Oculi Sunday
• Palm Sunday
• Passion Sunday
• Plough Sunday
• Quadragesima Sunday
• Quasimodo Sunday
• Quinquagesima Sunday
• Racial Justice Sunday
• Refreshment Sunday
• Remembrance Sunday
• Reminiscere Sunday
• Rogation Sunday
• rope yarn Sunday
• Rose Sunday
• Rush-bearing Sunday
• Saint Sunday
• Scout Sunday
• Seedy Sunday
• Selection Sunday
• Septuagesima Sunday
• Sexagesima Sunday
• Shrove Sunday
• six ways to Sunday
• Stir-up Sunday
• Suicide Sunday
• Super Bowl Sunday
• Super Sunday
• Tap-up Sunday
• Tradition Sunday
• Trinity Sunday
• Vocations Sunday
• White Sunday
• Whit Sunday
• World Communion Sunday

 

Derived terms

• month of Sundays
• never in a month of Sundays
• sundae
• Sunday baby
• Sunday best
• Sunday child
• Sunday Christian
• Sunday church
• Sunday closing law
• Sunday clothes
• Sunday comics
• Sunday dinner
• Sunday driver
• Sundayed
• Sunday face
• Sundayfied
• Sunday funnies
• Sunday-going
• Sunday-go-to-meeting
• Sunday gravy
• Sunday in Sexagesima
• Sundayish
• Sundayism
• Sunday joint
• Sunday letter
• Sunday lunch
• Sundayly
• Sunday man
• Sunday motorist
• Sunday observance
• Sunday out
• Sunday painter
• Sunday paper
• Sunday punch
• Sunday roast
• Sundays (adverb)
• Sunday saint
• Sunday salt
• Sunday's best
• Sunday's child
• Sunday school
• Sunday's daughter
• Sunday shopping
• Sunday strip
• Sunday supplement
• Sunday throat
• Sunday trading
• Sunday Trading Act
• Sunday within the Octave of Christmas
• Wentsunday
• what wins on Sunday sells on Monday
• when two Sundays come together
• when two Sundays meet
• Whitsunday

 

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: sande
• → Klamath-Modoc: sandi
• → Luganda: sande

Translations

day of the week

Abkhaz: амҽыша (amĉəŝa) Afrikaans: Sondag (af) Aghwan: 𐕚𐔰𐕐𐔰𐕌𐔱𐔰𐕜 (sašambaṭ) Akan: Kwasiada Alabama: nihtahollo, nihta istontòklo Albanian: e dielë f, e diel f Alutiiq: Agayuneq Amharic: እሑድ (ʾəḥud) Arabic: الْأَحَد‎ m (al-ʾaḥad), يَوْم الْأَحَد‎ m (yawm al-ʾaḥad) Egyptian Arabic: الحد‎ m (el-ḥad) Moroccan Arabic: الحد‎ South Levantine Arabic: الحد‎ Aramaic: חדבשבא‎ Classical Syriac: ܚܕܒܫܒܐ‎, ܚܕ ܒܫܒܐ‎ m (ḥāḏbəšabbā), ܚܕܐ ܒܫܒܐ‎ f (ḥəḏābəšabbā), ܝܘܡܐ ܕܚܕ‎ m (yawmā dəḥāḏ), ܒܝܬ ܫܒܘܥܬܐ‎ m (bayṯ šāḇōʿtā) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܚܕܒܫܒܐ‎ (ḳošaba) Armenian: կիրակի (hy) (kiraki) Old Armenian: կիւրակէ (kiwrakē), միաշաբաթի (miašabatʿi) Aromanian: duminicã f, dumãnicã f Assamese: দেওবাৰ (deübar), ৰবিবাৰ (robibar) Asturian: domingu (ast) m Atikamekw: manactakaniwon Avar: гьатӏан (hatʼan) Azerbaijani: bazar (az) Balinese: ᬋᬤᬶᬢᬾ (redité) Banjarese: Ahat Bashkir: йәкшәмбе (yäkşämbe) Basque: igande (eu) Bats: კვირაჸო̆ (ḳviraʾŏ) Bavarian: Sunnda m Belarusian: нядзе́ля f (njadzjélja) Bengali: রবিবার (bn) (rôbibar) Blackfoot: naatoyiksistsiko Breton: Sul (br) m, disul (br) (adverb) Buginese: duminggu Bulgarian: неде́ля (bg) f (nedélja) Burmese: တနင်္ဂနွေ (my) (ta.nangga.nwe) Catalan: diumenge (ca) m Cebuano: Dominggo Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⵛⴻⵔ (ašer) Chechen: кӏиранде (kʼirande) Cherokee: ᎤᎾᏙᏓᏆᏍᎬᎢ (unadodaquasgvi) Chichewa: Lasabata, Lamulungu Chickasaw: Nittak Hollo', Nittak Ishtontoklo' Chinese: Cantonese: 星期日 (sing1 kei4 jat6), 禮拜日, 礼拜日 (lai5 baai3 jat6) Dungan: щинчижы (xinčiřɨ), либэтян (libeti͡an), екшанбэ (i͡əkšanbe) Mandarin: 星期日 (zh) (xīngqīrì) (formal), 星期天 (zh) (xīngqītiān) (informal), 禮拜日／礼拜日 (zh) (lǐbàirì), 禮拜天／礼拜天 (zh) (colloquial), 礼拜天 (zh) (lǐbàitiān), 周日 (zh) (zhōurì) Min Nan: 禮拜日 (zh-min-nan), 礼拜日 (lé-pài-ji̍t, lé-pài-li̍t), 禮拜 (zh-min-nan), 礼拜 (lé-pài) Chuukese: Raninfen Chuvash: вырсарникун (vyrs̬arnik̬un) Cornish: Sul, de Sul, dy'Sul Corsican: dumenica (co) f Crimean Tatar: bazar Czech: neděle (cs) f Dakota: Aŋpetuwakaŋ Danish: søndag (da) c Dhivehi: އާދިއްތަ‎ (āditta) Dutch: zondag (nl) m Dzongkha: ཟླ་བ (zla ba) Elfdalian: sunndag m Esperanto: dimanĉo (eo) Estonian: pühapäev (et) Ewe: Kɔsiɖagbe n Farefare: Lasrɩ daarɛ Faroese: sunnudagur (fo) m Fijian: Siga Tabu Finnish: sunnuntai (fi) French: dimanche (fr) m Friulian: domenie f Fula: Adlam: 𞤁𞤫𞤱𞤮‎, 𞤀𞤤𞤫𞤼‎ Latin: Dewo, Alet Galician: domingo (gl) m Georgian: კვირადღე (ḳviradɣe), კვირა (ka) (ḳvira) German: Sonntag (de) m Gothic: 𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍃 𐌰𐍆𐌰𐍂𐍃𐌰𐌱𐌱𐌰𐍄𐌴 m (dags afarsabbatē) Greek: Κυριακή (el) f (Kyriakí) Greenlandic: sapaat Gujarati: રવિવાર (gu) m (ravivār) Haitian Creole: dimanch Hausa: Lahadi (ha) Hawaiian: Lāpule Hebrew: יוֹם רִאשׁוֹן‎ (he) m (yom rishón), יוֹם א'‎ (he) m (yom álef) Hiligaynon: Domingo Hindi: रविवार (hi) m (ravivār), इतवार (hi) m (itvār), एतवार (hi) m (etvār), आदित्यवार (hi) m (ādityavār), भानुवार (hi) m (bhānuvār), सूर्यवार (hi) m (sūryavār) Hungarian: vasárnap (hu) Icelandic: sunnudagur (is) m Ido: sundio (io) Inari Sami: pasepeivi Indonesian: Minggu (id), Ahad (id) Ingrian: pyhä Ingush: кӏиранди (kʼirandi) Interlingua: dominica (ia) Inuktitut: ᓈᑦᑏᖑᔭ (naattiingoya) Irish: Domhnach (ga) m Italian: domenica (it) f Japanese: 日曜日 (ja) (にちようび, nichiyōbi), 日曜 (ja) (にちよう, nichiyō) Javanese: ꦫꦢꦶꦠꦾ (raditya) Kannada: ಭಾನುವಾರ (kn) (bhānuvāra) Karelian: pyhäpäivy Kashmiri: آتھوار‎ (ks) (āthvār) Kashubian: niedzela (csb) f Kazakh: жексенбі (kk) (jeksenbı) Khmer: ថ្ងៃអាទិត្យ (km) (thngay ʼaatɨt) Klamath-Modoc: sandi Kongo: Lumbu kia lumingu Korean: 일요일(日曜日) (ko) (iryoil) Kumyk: къаттыгюн (qattıgün) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: یەکشەم‎ (yekşem), یەکشەمە‎ (yekşeme) Northern Kurdish: ‌yekşem, ‌yekşeme Kyrgyz: жекшемби (ky) (jekşembi) Ladin: domenia f Ladino: alhad m, Alhát m Lakota: Aŋpétu Wakȟáŋ, Aŋpétu Šakówiŋ Lao: ວັນອາທິດ (lo) (wan ʼā thit), ອາທິດ (lo) (ʼā thit) Latgalian: svātdīne f Latin: diēs Sōlis (la) f, diēs Dominica f, diēs Dominicus m, Dominica f Latvian: svētdiena f Laz: ბჟაჩხა (bjaçxa), მჟორაჩხა (mjoraçxa) Lezgi: базар (bazar), гьяд (häd) Limburgish: zönjig m, zóndig (li) m, zónjig (li) m Lithuanian: sekmadienis (lt) m Livonian: pivāpǟva Lombard: domenica f Louisiana Creole French: dimansh Low German: Dutch Low Saxon: zundag m German Low German: Sünndag m Westphalian: Ssundag m Münsterländisch: Sunndag (nds) m Paderbornisch: Sunndag (nds) m Sauerländisch: Sundag (nds) m Luganda: sande Luxembourgish: Sonnden (lb) m, Sonndeg (lb) m Lü: ᦞᧃᦑᦲᧆ (vantiid) Macedonian: не́дела (mk) f (nédela) Makasar: aha Malay: Arabic: هاري احد‎, احد‎, هاري ميڠݢو‎, ميڠݢو‎ Latin: hari Ahad, Ahad (ms), hari Minggu, Minggu Malayalam: ഞായര് (ñāyarŭ) Maltese: il-Ħadd m Manchu: ᡧᡠᠨ ᡠᠰᡳᠩᡤᡳ (šun usinggi) Manx: Jedoonee f, Doonaght m Maori: Rātapu Marathi: रविवार (mr) m (ravivār) Mauritian Creole: dimans Mingrelian: ჟაშხა (žašxa) Mirandese: demingo m Mòcheno: sunta m Mongolian: Cyrillic: ням (mn) (njam) (written), бүтэн сайн өдөр (büten sajn ödör) (spoken), гарагийн өдөр (garagiin ödör) (China) Mongolian: ᠨᠢᠮ᠎ᠠ (nim'a), ᠪᠦᠲᠦᠨ ᠰᠠᠢᠢᠨ ᠡᠳᠦᠷ (bütün sai̯in edür), ᠭᠠᠷᠠᠭ ᠦᠨ ᠡᠳᠦᠷ (ɣaraɣ-ün edür) Navajo: Damį́įgo, Damóo Neapolitan: dumméneca Nepali: आइतबार (ne) (āitabār), रविवार (raviwār) Norman: dîmmaunche m (France), desmanche m (Guernsey), Dînmanche m (Jersey) North Frisian: Föhr-Amrum: söndai Mooring: saandi Sylt: Sendai Northern Sami: sotnabeaivi Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: Bokmål: søndag (no) m Nynorsk: sundag (nn) m, søndag (nn) m Occitan: dimenge (oc) m Ojibwe: anamaʼe-giizhigad Old Church Slavonic: Cyrillic: недѣлꙗ f (nedělja) Glagolitic: ⱀⰵⰴⱑⰾⱑ f (nedělja) Old East Slavic: недѣлꙗ f (nedělja) Old English: sunnandæġ (ang) m Old Norse: sunnudagr m Old Prussian: nadīli f Old Turkic: yetinç‎ (yetinç) Oriya: ରବିବାର (or) (rôbibarô) Oromo: Dilbata Ossetian: хуцаубон (xucawbon) (Digor), хуыцаубон (x°ycawbon) (Iron) Papiamentu: diadomingu Pashto: يکشنبه‎ (ps) f (yakšanbá), اتبار‎ (ps) m (itbār) Pennsylvania German: Sunndaag m Persian: یک‌شنبه‎ (yekšanbe) Picard: diminche m Piedmontese: duminica f Plautdietsch: Sindach (nds) m, Sinndag (nds) m Polish: niedziela (pl) f Portuguese: domingo (pt) m Punjabi: ਐਤਵਾਰ (pa) (aitavār) Quechua: dumingu, intichaw Romani: kurko m, o purano kurko m Romanian: duminică (ro) f Romansch: dumengia f, dumeingia f Russian: воскресе́нье (ru) n (voskresénʹje), неде́ля (ru) f (nedélja) (archaic) Rusyn: недї́ля f (nedjílja) Rwanda-Rundi: Kwamungu Sami: Northern: sotnabeavi Samoan: Aso Sa Sanskrit: रविवार (sa) m (ravivāra), आदित्यवारम् (sa) m (ādityavāram), भानुवार (sa) m (bhānuvāra) Sardinian: domiga, dumínica, domìniga f, domigu m Scots: Sunday Scottish Gaelic: Didòmhnaich (gd) m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: недеља f, недјеља f Roman: nedelja (sh) f, nedjelja (sh) f Seychellois Creole: dimans Shona: Svondo Sicilian: duminica (scn) f, dumìnica (scn) f, duminicadìa (scn) f Sindhi: آچَرُ‎ (sd) (āčaru) Sinhalese: ඉරිදා (si) (iridā) Skolt Sami: pâʹsspeiʹvv Slovak: nedeľa (sk) f Slovene: nedélja (sl) f Somali: axad (so) Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: njeźela f Upper Sorbian: njedźela f Sotho: Sontaha (st) Spanish: domingo (es) m Svan: მიშლადეღ (mišladeɣ), მი̄შ (mīš), ნაგზი (nagzi) Swahili: Jumapili Swazi: lí-Sontfo Swedish: söndag (sv) c Sylheti: ꠞꠛꠤꠛꠣꠞ (robibar), ꠞꠂꠛ꠆ꠛꠣꠞ (roibbar) Tabasaran: базар (bazar) Tagalog: Linggo, linggo (tl) Tahitian: Tapati Tajik: якшанбе (tg) (yakšanbe) Tamil: ஞாயிறு (ta) (ñāyiṟu) Taos: tumį́ku Tarantino: dumèneche Tatar: якшәмбе (tt) (yakşämbe) Tausug: Ahad Telugu: ఆదివారం (te) (ādivāraṁ), రవివారము (te) (ravivāramu) Tetum: loron-domingu Thai: วันอาทิตย์ (th) (wan aa-tít), อาทิตย์ (th) (aa-tít) Tibetan: གཟའ་ཉི་མ (gza' nyi ma) Tigrinya: ሰንበት (ti) (sänbät) Tok Pisin: sande Tongan: Sapate Tswana: tshipi Turkish: pazar (tr) Turkmen: ýekşenbe, dynçgün Ukrainian: неді́ля (uk) f (nedílja) Urdu: اتوار‎ (ur) m (itvār), رویوار‎ m (ravivār), ایتوار‎ m (etvār), یک شنبہ‎ (yek śanba) Uyghur: يەكشەنبە‎ (yekshenbe) Uzbek: yakshanba (uz) Venetian: doménega (vec) f Veps: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: Chủ nhật (vi), Chúa nhật (vi) (Christianity) Volapük: sudel (vo), balüdel, soldel Votic: please add this translation if you can Võro: please add this translation if you can Walloon: dimegne (wa) f Welsh: dydd Sul (cy) m West Frisian: snein (fy) c Winnebago: Haramįhe Hąąp Wolof: Dibéer, Dimas Xhosa: iCawe Yakan: Ahad Yakut: баскыһыанньа (baskıhıanńa) Yiddish: זונטיק‎ (yi) m (zuntik) Yup'ik: Agayuneq Zazaki: bazar (diq), kırê, yewşeme (diq) Zulu: iSonto

newspaper

Bulgarian: неделен вестник m (nedelen vestnik) Finnish: sunnuntainumero (fi) French: presse dominicale f Japanese: 日曜版 (nichiyōban)

Verb

Sunday (third-person singular simple present Sundays, present participle Sundaying, simple past and past participle Sundayed)

1. To spend Sunday (at a certain place, with a certain person or people, etc.).
   • 1910, Arthur B. Reeve, The Silent Bullet, III,

     I waded through accounts of new calves and colts, new fences and barns, who “Sundayed” with his brother, etc., and soon had a list of all the cases in that part of the country.

   • 1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, “Kipling,”

     The dogs and I were Sundaying on the garden lawn.

   • 2016, Brian Finnegan, “Your Sunday Best,” in totallydublin.ie,

     When we’re Sundaying in the city, I like nothing better than to roll out of bed and head straight for Noshington on the corner of South Circular Road and Washington Street, for one of their hugely satisfying weekend brunch options.

Adverb

Sunday (not comparable)

1. (US, Canada) On Sundays.

Translations

on Sunday

Bulgarian: в неделя (v nedelja) Finnish: sunnuntaina French: dimanche (fr) Georgian: კვირას (ḳviras), კვირაობით (ḳviraobit) German: sonntags (de) Greek: κυριακάτικα (el) (kyriakátika) Irish: Dé Domhnaigh (ga) Latin: dominica Latvian: svētdien Pennsylvania German: Sunndaag Romanian: duminică (ro), duminica (ro) Slovak: v nedeľu Turkish: pazar (tr) Volapük: sudelo (vo), balüdelo, soldelo Welsh: ddydd Sul

See also

• (days of the week) day of the week; Sunday,‎ Monday,‎ Tuesday,‎ Wednesday,‎ Thursday,‎ Friday,‎ Saturday ^{(Category: en:Days of the week) [edit]}