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In Catholic liturgy, Thursday is referred to in Latin as feria quinta. Portuguese, unlike other Romance languages, uses the word quinta-feira, meaning "fifth day of liturgical celebration", that comes from the Latin feria quinta used in religious texts where it was not allowed to consecrate days to pagan gods.
In Slavic languages, some of the names correspond to numerals after Sunday: compare Russian vtornik (вторник) "Tuesday" and vtoroj (второй) "the second", chetverg (четверг) "Thursday" and chetvjortyj (четвёртый) "the fourth", pyatnitsa (пятница) "Friday" and pyatyj (пятый) "the fifth"; see also the Notes.
In English, the names of the days of the week are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. In many languages, including English, the days of the week are named after gods or classical planets. Saturday has kept its Roman name, while the other six days use Germanic equivalents.
In the Greek Orthodox tradition, fasting on Wednesdays and Fridays is important, therefore Thursday is the best day for Tsiknopempti. [4] Tsiknopempti is celebrated 11 days before Clean Monday (often referred to in English as Ash Monday, to allude to Ash Wednesday in the West, however in Orthodox tradition there is no imposition of ashes).
"Thursday" (Pet Shop Boys song), a song by the Pet Shop Boys "Thursday", a song by Morphine from Cure for Pain and also used in the soundtrack to the film Beavis and Butt-head "Thursday", a song by Country Joe and the Fish from I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die , 1967
32 languages. العربية ... In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... Pages in category "Thursday" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
1963 'Ethnological Notes on the Distribution of Guan Languages,' Journal of African Languages 2(3). 1966 'The Akan and the North,' Ghana Notes and Queries 9: 18-24. 1968 'The Myth of a State.' Journal of Modern African Studies 6(4): 461-73. 1963 'A Medieval Trade Route from the Niger to the Gulf of Guinea, Journal of African History 3(2).
Yaw is a masculine given name originating from the Akan people and their day naming system, meaning "born on a Thursday" in Akan language, following their day naming system. [1] People born on particular days are supposed to exhibit the characteristics or attributes and philosophy, associated with the days.