# day
## Translingual
### Symbol

day
* (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, Sanskrit दाह (dāhá, “heat”), दहति (dáhati, “to burn”), Latin foveō (“to warm, keep warm, incubate”).
Latin diēs, Russian день (denʹ), Lithuanian dienà are false cognates; they all derive from Proto-Indo-European *dyew- (“to shine”).

### Pronunciation

enPR: dā
* (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /deɪ/
** Audio (Received Pronunciation, female voice, "a day"):(file)
** Audio (Received Pronunciation, male voice):(file)
** Audio (California, [deː]):(file)
* (General Australian) IPA: /dæɪ/
** Audio (Cultivated, [dɛɪ]):(file)
* (Canada) IPA: /deɪ/, [deː], [dɛj]
* (Standard Southern British) IPA: [dɛj]
* Homophones: Day, dey
* Rhymes: -eɪ

### 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.
    Synonym: nychthemeron
    I've been here for two days and a bit.
** The time taken for the Sun to seem to be in the same place in the sky twice; a solar day.
** 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.
* 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 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, 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.

#### Hypernyms

* month
* time
* week
* year

#### Hyponyms

* Apple Gifting Day
* arm day
* Ayurveda Day
* back day
* bad hair day
* Bastille Day
* birthday
* Boxing Day
* brain day
* bridal day
* calendar day
* Canada Day
* cardio day
* chest day
* Christmas Day
* civil day
* Commitment Day
* core day
* Corregidor Day
* day game
* Day of Atonement
* Day of Judgment
* day of reckoning
* day of rest
* Days of Awe
* days of grace
* D-Day
* dollar day
* doomsday
* duvet day
* Easter Day
* feast day
* field day
* Flag Day
* flag day
* foreday
* Friday
* heyday
* holiday
* holy day
* holy day of obligation
* I-Day
* Indigenous Peoples' Day
* judgment day
* lifeday
* loveday
* lower body day
* May Day
* midday
* Monday
* Mothering Day
* name day
* New Year's Day
* noonday
* one day
* payday
* polling day
* Quitter's Day
* raceday
* race day
* rainy day
* rest day
* saint's day
* Saturday
* scambling day
* sick day
* solar day
* someday
* St. Andrew's Day
* St. David's Day
* St. George's Day
* St. John's Day
* St. Patrick's Day
* St. Pattie's Day
* St. Patty's Day
* St. Stephen's Day
* Sunday
* synodic day
* the other day
* Thursday
* total body day
* Trafalgar Day
* Tuesday
* Twelfth Day
* twenty-four hour day
* upper body day
* Victoria day
* wedding day
* Wednesday
* weekday
* workday
* working day
* workout day

#### Holonyms

* calendar month
* calendar year
* hebdomad
* triduum
* week

#### Coordinate terms

* millennium
* century
* decade
* year
* month
* week
* day
* hour
* minute
* moment
* second
* millisecond
* microsecond
* nanosecond
* picosecond
* femtosecond
* attosecond
* zeptosecond
* yoctosecond

#### Derived terms

* 0-day
* 10-day measles
* 24-hour day
* 3-day measles
* 400-day clock
* 7-day fever
* 7-day measles
* 90-day wonder
* a broken clock is right twice a day
* access day
* account day
* ace in a day
* a cold day in hell
* a cold day in July
* a day after the fair
* a day late and a dollar short
* ahemeral day
* Alaska Day
* Alien Day
* all day
* all-day
* all-day sucker
* all in a day's work
* all one's born days
* an apple a day
* an apple a day keeps the doctor at bay
* an apple a day keeps the doctor away
* another day, another dollar
* another day in paradise
* any day
* any day now
* any day of the week
* any day of the week and twice on Sunday
* any day of the week and twice on Sundays
* as the day is long
* a stopped clock is right twice a day
* at the end of the day
* away day
* away-day
* away-day girl
* a year and a day
* back in day
* back in the day
* bad old days
* Baker day
* banyan day
* basket days
* Bataan Day
* b-day
* beach day
* beginning of day
* be on days
* big day
* bin day
* birth-day
* black day
* black letter day
* black-letter day
* Bloomsday
* Bonifacio Day
* borrowed days
* borrowing days
* boxing day
* Break O'Day
* break of day
* business day
* button day
* by day
* by the day
* call it a day
* call it half a day
* can do this all day
* canicular days
* carry the day
* catch of the day
* centiday
* chair days
* cheat day
* Chewidden Day
* Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
* clear as day
* cold day in Hell
* contango day
* continuation day
* cooling-off day
* could go all day
* count one's days
* dage
* daily
* dan day
* darty
* dawn of a new day
* day after
* day after day
* day-after recall test
* day after tomorrow
* day-age
* day-age creationism
* day-age creationist
* day-ager
* day and age
* day-and-date
* day and night
* day at the beach
* day beacon
* daybeam
* daybed
* day bed
* day before yesterday
* day-biter
* day blind
* day-blind
* day-blindness
* day blindness
* day boarder
* dayboat
* day book
* daybook
* dayboy
* day boy
* day-break
* daybreak
* day by day
* day cab
* day care
* day care center
* daycarer
* day case
* daycase
* daycation
* day center
* daycentre
* day centre
* day-clean
* daycoach
* day coal
* daycore
* day count convention
* day cream
* day-dawn
* day dot
* daydream
* day-ee
* dayer
* day-fine
* day fine
* dayflower
* dayfly
* dayflying
* day for night
* dayful
* day gecko
* dayger
* daygirl
* Day-Glo
* dayglow
* day gone by
* dayhike
* day hospital
* day in court
* day in, day out
* day in the sun
* dayjamas
* day job
* day labor
* day laborer
* day labour
* day labourer
* day lark
* daylength
* dayless
* day letter
* day level
* daylife
* daylight
* daylike
* daylily
* day lily
* daylong
* day man
* day-man
* daymare
* daymark
* daymeal
* day-moth
* day name
* day-net
* day-neutral
* day-nighter
* day nursery
* day of days
* day of doom
* day off
* day of judgement
* day of judgment
* day of the rope
* Day of Valor
* day-old
* day one
* day order
* day or night
* day out
* day-over-day
* day pack
* daypack
* daypart
* day patient
* day-peep
* day pupil
* day release
* day residue
* day return
* dayrise
* dayroom
* day room
* days
* daysack
* days ago
* daysail
* daysailer
* daysailing
* daysailor
* day-scholar
* day school
* day shape
* dayshield
* day shift
* dayside
* day-sight
* daysight
* day sign
* daysleeper
* dayslong
* daysman
* days of wine and roses
* days of yore
* dayspring
* days sales outstanding
* daystar
* daysworth
* day the music died
* daytime
* day time
* day-time
* day to day
* day-to-day
* day-to-night
* daytrade
* day trade
* day-trade
* day-trader
* day trader
* daytrader
* day trading
* day-trip
* day trip
* daytrip
* day tripper
* day-tripper
* daywalk
* daywalker
* dayward
* daywear
* daywork
* day work
* day-work
* dayworker
* day worker
* day-worker
* day-year principle
* D-day
* deathday
* deciday
* degree day
* degree—day
* dish of the day
* ditch day
* dog-day
* dog day cicada
* dog days
* don't give up the day job
* don't give up your day job
* don't quit your day job
* doona day
* double day
* dress-down day
* dumping day
* early day motion
* early days
* Earth day
* E-day
* eight-day clock
* eight days a week
* Ember day
* end of day
* end of the day
* end one's days
* even a stopped clock is right twice a day
* everyday
* every-day
* every day
* every day is a school day
* every day of the week
* every day of the week and twice on Sunday
* every day of the week and twice on Sundays
* every dog has his day
* every dog has its day
* every dog must have his day
* every dog must have its day
* evil day
* Evolution Day
* eye of day
* fair as the day
* fat day
* father-daughter day
* fifth-day fits
* First-day
* first-day
* first day cover
* first-day cover
* first notice day
* first order of the day
* fish and company stink after three days
* five-a-day
* five-day fever
* five-day week
* for days
* forever and a day
* free day
* from day to day
* from one day to the next
* full-body day
* Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
* gag-a-day
* game day
* gameday
* gangday
* garbage day
* give the time of day
* glory days
* go about one's day
* God be with the days
* good day
* good old days
* gym day
* hackday
* haggaday
* halcyon days
* half day
* happy days
* happy day scenario
* have a nice day
* have a nice day syndrome
* have had its day
* have had one's day
* have had one's day under the sun
* have seen better days
* have seen one's day
* heat day
* heigh-day
* highday
* high days and holidays
* holiday
* holy day
* holy day of obligation
* honest as the day
* hump day
* I don't have all day
* if a day
* if one is a day
* I haven't got all day
* in all one's born days
* independence day
* Independence Day
* in one's born days
* in one's day
* INSET day
* in someone's day
* interday
* International Day of the Girl
* International Day of the Girl Child
* in the cold light of day
* in this day and age
* in three days
* intraday
* it is not every day
* it's early days
* it's not every day
* judgement day
* judgment day
* judicial day
* Julian day
* kiloday
* laced day-moth
* Lady-day
* last day
* late in the day
* latter-day
* Latter-day Saint
* law day
* lawful day
* lay day
* leap day
* leg day
* length of days
* light day
* live to fight another day
* Lord's day
* Lord's Day
* lunar day
* make a day of it
* make one's day
* make someone's day
* man-day
* man day
* market day
* match day
* May-day sweep
* M-day
* mean solar day
* me day
* members' day
* middle day
* modern-day
* muck-up day
* mufti day
* multiday
* naked as the day one entered the world
* naked as the day one was born
* name day
* name the day
* natal day
* national day
* National Heroes Day
* neck day
* next-day
* night-and-day
* night and day
* nine days wonder
* nine days' wonder
* nine-day wonder
* nine day wonder
* ninety days
* ninety-day wonder
* Ninoy Aquino Day
* nonday
* not look a day over
* now a days
* now-a-days
* Octave Day of Easter
* off day
* oh my days
* old days
* one-day
* one-day cricket
* one-day international
* one-day match
* one of these days
* one of those days
* one's days are numbered
* open day
* Orange Shirt Day
* order of the day
* pajama day
* paper day
* pass the time of day
* pasture day moth
* pay day
* ped day
* peep o' day
* peep of day
* personal day
* person-day
* picture day
* plain as day
* playday
* poets day
* poets' day
* POETS day
* poet's day
* post day
* present-day
* privilege day
* quarter day
* quarter-day
* queen for a day
* rag day
* rain day
* rebirthday
* red day
* red flag day
* red-letter
* red-letter day
* red letter day
* return day
* Rome was not built in a day (dated)
* Rome wasn't built in a day
* Rome wasn't burned in a day
* rue the day
* rule the day
* running day
* Sabba-day
* Sabbath-day
* Sabber-day
* safe day
* salad days
* same-day
* same day lay
* same-day lay
* save something for a rainy day
* save the day
* schoolday
* school day
* Scout Official for a Day
* sea day
* seaday
* sea-day
* second day cover
* see the day
* see the light of day
* seize the day
* seven-day
* seven-day wonder
* Seventh-day
* Seventh-day Adventism
* Seventh-day Adventist
* Seventh-day Adventist Church
* Seward's Day
* ship's days
* show day
* sidereal day
* six bob a day tourist
* skier day
* slow news day
* snow day
* solar day
* some day
* somedays
* some days a diamond, some days a stone
* speech day
* sports day
* Star Wars Day
* stellar day
* sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof
* summer's day
* sunny-day flooding
* sweat like a nigger on election day
* tag day
* take one day at a time
* teacher work day
* tenday
* term day
* that'll be the day
* the day
* the day before
* the last day
* the next day
* these days
* those were the days
* three day eventing
* three-day fever
* three-day measles
* three days ago
* three-day sickness
* three day sickness
* ticket day
* tide day
* time of day
* today
* to-day
* today is a good day to die
* tomorrow is another day
* to one's dying day
* to the day
* to this day
* twelfth-day cake
* twelfth day cake
* twenty-four hours a day
* two-a-day
* two days after tomorrow
* Twosday
* until one's dying day
* vacation day
* varnishing day
* V-E Day
* Victoria Day
* V-J Day
* Waffle Day
* wake up one day
* washday
* washing day
* weather day
* wedding-day
* week-day
* weekday
* we haven't got all day
* what a lovely day
* what day is it today
* win the day
* without day
* woman-day
* workaday
* work-a-day
* work day
* yearday
* yesterday
* you learn something new every day
* zero-day
* zero day

#### Related terms

* Sunday
* Monday
* Tuesday
* Wednesday
* Thursday
* Friday
* Saturday

#### Descendants

* Sranan Tongo: dei

#### Translations
### 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[.]

### See also

* days of the week (appendix): Sunday · Monday · Tuesday · Wednesday · Thursday · Friday · Saturday
* Sabbath
* calendar

### References

* Day (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* d'ya, y'ad, yad

## Azerbaijani
### Etymology

From Proto-Common Turkic *dāy.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [dɑj]
* Audio (Baku):(file)

### Noun

day (definite accusative dayı, plural daylar)
* colt, foal

#### 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: /ˈd̪aɪ/
* Rhymes: -aɪ
* Hyphenation: day

### Noun

day
* (colloquial) a familiar address to a girl
* a familiar address to a daughter

## Hawaiian Creole
### Etymology

From English day.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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, dæi, dey, daȝ, dæȝ, dei, daye, daȝȝ, daȝh, daiȝ, *dah

#### Pronunciation

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

#### Noun

day (plural dayes or days or dawes)
* day (composed of 24 hours)
** p. 1154, “AD 1137”, in Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (MS. Laud Misc. 636, continuation), Peterborough, folio 89, verso; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 2018 February 8: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 […]
* 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.
* daylight, sunlight
* epoch, age, period
* a certain day

##### Antonyms

* nyght

##### Related terms

* Childermasse day
* dayly
* ende-day
* endyng day
* Friday
* holiday
* lawday
* loveday
* Monday
* Paske day
* Saterday
* Sunnenday
* Tewesday
* Thursday
* Wednesday
* weke-day
* yesterday

##### 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
* Alternative form of þei (“they”)

## Scots
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle English day.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dɪ/, /de/

### 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.

## Tagalog
### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

day (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜌ᜔)
* Alternative spelling of 'day

## Vietnamese
### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [zaj˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [jaj˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [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.