day

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Translingual

Symbol

day

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

English

Alternative forms

• daie, daye (obsolete)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English day, from Old English dæġ (“day”), from Proto-West Germanic *dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz (“day”); see there for more.

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Dai (“day”), West Frisian dei (“day”), Dutch dag (“day”), German Low German Dag (“day”), Alemannic German Däi (“day”), German Tag (“day”), Swedish, Norwegian and Danish dag (“day”), Icelandic dagur (“day”), Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍃 (dags, “day”). Possible cognates beyond Germanic relatives include Albanian djeg (“to burn”), Lithuanian degti (“to burn”), Tocharian A tsäk-, Russian жечь (žečʹ, “to burn”) from *degti, дёготь (djógotʹ, “tar, pitch”), Sanskrit दाह (dāhá, “heat”), दहति (dáhati, “to burn”), Latin foveō (“to warm, keep warm, incubate”).

Latin diēs is a false cognate; it derives from Proto-Indo-European *dyew- (“to shine”).

Pronunciation

enPR: dā

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /deɪ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /dæɪ/
• Homophone: dey
• Rhymes: -eɪ

Noun

day (plural days)

1. The time when the Sun is above the horizon and it lights the sky.

   Synonyms: daylight, upsun; see also Thesaurus:daytime

   Antonyms: night; see also Thesaurus:nighttime
2. A period of time equal or almost equal to a full day-night cycle.

   Synonym: nychthemeron

   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.
3. (informal or meteorology) A 24-hour period beginning at 6am or sunrise.

4. 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

5. (astronomy) The rotational period of a planet.

6. The part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc.
7. An observance lasting for a day, such as an annual holiday.

   Christmas Day

   Remembrance Day

9. 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
10. A period of contention of a day or less.

11. A period of confusion of a day or more.

Hypernyms

Hyponyms

Holonyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: dei

Translations

Verb

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

1. (rare, intransitive) To spend a day (in a place).

See also

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

References

• Day (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• d'ya, y'ad, yad

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Common Turkic *dāy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [dɑj]

Noun

day (definite accusative dayı, plural daylar)

1. colt, foal

Declension

Derived terms

• dayça

Descendants

• → Lezgi: тай (taj) (or < Kumyk)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ta:y”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Further reading

• “day” in Obastan.com.

Cebuano

Etymology

Clipping of inday.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Cebuano) IPA^(key): /ˈd̪aɪ/
• Rhymes: -aɪ
• Hyphenation: day

Noun

day

1. (colloquial) a familiar address to a girl
2. a familiar address to a daughter

Hawaiian Creole

Etymology

From English day.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /deɪ/, /deː/

Noun

day

1. day

Kalasha

Verb

day

1. I am

Middle English

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• dai, dæi, dey, daȝ, dæȝ, dei, daye, daȝȝ, daȝh, daiȝ, *dah

Pronunciation

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

Noun

day (plural dayes or days or dawes)

1. day (composed of 24 hours)
2. day (as opposed to night)
3. daylight, sunlight
4. epoch, age, period
5. a certain day

Antonyms

• nyght

Related terms

Descendants

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

References

• “dai, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-20.

Etymology 2

Pronoun

day

1. Alternative form of þei (“they”)

Scots

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English day.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪ/, /de/

Noun

day (plural days)

1. day
2. (in the definite singular) today

Tagalog

Pronunciation

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

Noun

day (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜌ᜔)

1. Alternative spelling of 'day

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

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

Verb

day

1. to rub