Is monday is MOON day?

Question

Hi in any another langauge is it monday is MOON day?

I know in India its monday called somvar thats som = MOON var = Day.

I wonder is it same with some / many languages???

thanks

Answer 1

Yes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monday
Furthermore, in French Monday is Lundi while Lune means moon.

Answer 2

Monday (pron. IPA: [mʌn.deɪ] or [mʌn.di]) is considered either the first or second day of the week, between Sunday and Tuesday. It gets its name from the Moon, which in turn gets its name from Mani (Old English Mona), the Germanic Moon god. Similarly, the Italian name (lunedi), the French name (lundi) and the Spanish name (lunes) come from the Latin name for the moon, Luna.

In India, Monday is Somvar. It is based on Soma or Somdev Vedic God of Moon.

Monday is often held to be the first day of the week. This is the case in most of Europe, parts of Africa, and South America. In Asia – because the western calendar system was introduced only during the 20th century – many languages refer to Monday as the "day of the beginning". For example, Monday is xingqi yi (星期一) in Chinese, meaning day one of the week. The wage labour oriented international standard, ISO 8601, also defines Monday as the first day of the week.

According to the Judeo-Christian count, Monday is the second day. This is the traditional view in Canada and the United States. The name for the day in Arabic, Armenian, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, Persian and Portuguese is "second day". Quakers also traditionally refer to Monday as "Second Day" eschewing the pagan origin of the English name "Monday". For similar reasons the official liturgical calendar of the Roman Catholic Church refers to Monday as "Feria II".

Modern culture usually looks at Monday as the beginning of the workweek, as it is typically Monday when adults go back to work and children back to school after the weekend. It is Monday when commodity markets add or subtract weather premium, hence the nickname Weather Market Monday. Thus, Mondays are often seen as a misfortune. In Middle Eastern countries, however, the beginning of the workweek is usually Saturday (Thursday and Friday are observed as the weekend). In Israel, Sunday is the first day of the workweek. Friday is half a work day and Friday Night and Saturday are the Sabbath.

Answer 3

In English, Monday means moon day, Tuesday is Tewe's Day and named after a Nordic god, Wednesday is Woden's Day (another Nordic God), Thursday is Thor's Day (yet another Nordic God), Friday is Freya's Day (oh look another Nordic God), Saturday is Saturn's Day (the Roman god) and Sunday, is of course Sun Day.
In French Lundi also means Moon day. Many languages take their names of days as transliterations or translations of the European day names due to European Imperialism, whether or not this this is true in Hindi is beyond me, but I suspect it's probably a mixture of English influence and strong native culture. I have been to India so I'm not completely at a loss to understand where you are coming from.

On Korean calendars they use the Chinese (Kang Xi) symbol for the moon for Monday.

Answer 4

see below link:

Monday (pron. IPA: [mʌn.deɪ] or [mʌn.di]) is considered either the first or second day of the week, between Sunday and Tuesday. It gets its name from the Moon, which in turn gets its name from Mani (Old English Mona), the Germanic Moon god. Similarly, the Italian name (lunedi), the French name (lundi) and the Spanish name (lunes) come from the Latin name for the moon, Luna.

Answer 5

Not in all languages but in most of the European languages it means that.For example, in Arabic it means the second day, Sunday is the first day ,Tuesday is the third day,Wednesday is the fourth day, Thursday is the fifth day and Friday is the gathering day. Saturday means the day for not doing any thing.As a matter of fact Saturday in Arabic is Sabt,in Italian it is Sabato and i think in Hebrew which has the same origin as Arabic it is also Sabt.

Answer 6

Yes. In French, Spanish and German it's moon day too!
lundi
lunes
Monntag

Answer 7

Just want to add 2 things to what's already been said..!

1. the Japanese only called weekdays after stellar objects (sun, moon etc.,) to follow the Western way of doing things. The weekdays were NOT traditionally named in this way. I can't remember what they USED to be called though - although my Japanese husband did tell me not THAT long ago - I only have a vague notion that they used to have numerical names, probably similar to China's. But I won't be upset if someone tells me my memory's failed me...!!

2. there should be a RULE on this site (actually, I think there is already, but people abuse it still!) People who copy and paste half of a web-page - wikipedia for example - should ALWAYS state their source!!! You have two people on this page who've used part (or all) of the relevant wiki page to reply. One of them used a LOT of info and takes all the credit - the other gives a little info, and the link to find out more!!! Very good behaviour...!!

Answer 8

In Japanese Monday is Getsuyobi, and to write this you use the character for moon, pronounced getsu/gatsu.

Answer 9

In Chinese(Mandarin) Monday is chin-chi-e which means day one

Answer 10

Those who used to worship stars and planet, like hindus and roman pagans etc; they named weekdays as per names of planet and stars. Roman pagans used to worship sun on sunday later european christians have adopted same day as their weekend despite jew saturday.