day

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

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, IPA^(key): /deɪ̯/

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• 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

   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, […].

2. 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.

   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.

   Your 8am forecast: The high for the day will be 30 and the low, before dawn, will be 10.

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

   The day begins at midnight.

   Monday is the first day of the week in many countries of the world.

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

   A day on Mars is slightly over 24 hours.

6. 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. […]”

8. 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.

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

   The day belonged to the Allies.

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Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: dei

Translations

References

• Day (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

Anagrams

• d'ya, y'ad, yad

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Common Turkic *dāy.

Pronunciation

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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

• (General 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

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

Alternative forms

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

day (plural dayes or days or dawes)

1. 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

2. 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.

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

From Middle English day.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪ/, /de/

Noun

day (plural days)

1. day
2. (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

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaj/,

Noun

day (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜌ᜔)

1. Alternative spelling of 'day

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

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Verb

day

1. 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.