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Monday (pron. ) is the day of the week between Sunday and Tuesday.
English noun Monday derived sometime before 1200 from monedæi, which itself developed from Old English (around 1000) monandæg and mondæg (literally meaning "day of the moon"), which is cognate to other Germanic languages, including Old Frisian monadeig, Middle Low German and Middle Dutch manendach (modern Dutch Maandag), Old High German manetag (modern German Montag), and Old Norse manadagr (Swedish and Norwegian nynorsk måndag, Danish and Norwegian bokmål mandag).
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Monday (pron. ) is the day of the week between Sunday and Tuesday.
Etymology
The English noun Monday derived sometime before 1200 from monedæi, which itself developed from Old English (around 1000) monandæg and mondæg (literally meaning "day of the moon"), which is cognate to other Germanic languages, including Old Frisian monadeig, Middle Low German and Middle Dutch manendach (modern Dutch Maandag), Old High German manetag (modern German Montag), and Old Norse manadagr (Swedish and Norwegian nynorsk måndag, Danish and Norwegian bokmål mandag). The Germanic term is a Germanic interpretation of Latin lunae dies ("day of the moon").
The Russian word, eschewing pagan names, is ??????????? (poniediélnik), meaning "after holiday."
In most of the Indian Languages, the word for Monday is Somvar, with Soma being the Sanskrit name for the moon. The Japanese word for Monday is getsuyobi which means day of the moon.
Position in the week
In some cultures, Monday is held to be the first day of the week. 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 in Chinese, meaning day one of the week. The international standard, ISO 8601, defines Monday as the first day of the week, unlike the American calendar which lists Sunday as the first day of the week.
But according to the Christian count, Monday is the first day of the week. This is also the standard format in Canada and the United States. Its name in Arabic, Armenian, Georgian, Greek, Persian and Syriac means "first day". Quakers also traditionally refer to Monday as "First 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". (The Portuguese name for Monday reflects this, as do all the days' names except Saturday and Sunday: the Portuguese word for Monday is segunda-feira.)
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. 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.
Religious observances
In Judaism and Islam Mondays are considered auspicious days for fasting. The Didache warned early Christians not to fast on Mondays to avoid Judaizing, and suggests Wednesdays instead.
In Judaism the Torah is read in public on Monday mornings, one of three days the Torah is read each week (the other two days being Thursday and Saturday). Special penitential prayers are recited on Monday, unless there is a special occasion for happiness which cancels them.
In the Eastern Orthodox Church Mondays are days on which the Angels are commemorated. The Octoechos contains hymns on this theme, arranged in an eight-week cycle, that are chanted on Mondays throughout the year. At the end of Divine Services on Monday, the dismissal begins with the words: "May Christ our True God, through the intercessions of his most-pure Mother, of the honorable, Bodiless Powers (i.e., the angels) of Heaven…". In many Eastern monasteries Mondays are observed as fast days; because Mondays are dedicated to the angels, and monks strive to live an angelic life. In these monasteries the monks abstain from meat, fowl, dairy products, fish, wine and oil (if a feast day occurs on a Monday, fish, wine and oil may be allowed, depending upon the particular feast).
Cultural references
In the folk rhyme, "Monday's child is fair of face".
In Thailand, the color associated with Monday is yellow, see Thai solar calendar.
The Boomtown Rats have a famous song called "I Don't Like Mondays".
Through the movie Office Space the quote "Someone is having a case of the Mondays!" entered the pop culture lexicon.
In the Garfield Comics and Shows, one of the things Garfield hates is Monday.
Monday in different languages
Common occurences
Astrology
Named days
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