Tuesday
Tuesday is the
The English name is derived from Middle English Tewesday, from Old English Tiwesdæg meaning "Tīw's Day", the day of Tiw or Týr, the god of single combat, law, and justice in Norse mythology. Tiw was equated with Mars in the interpretatio germanica, and the name of the day is a translation of Latin dies Martis.
Etymology
The name Tuesday derives from the Old English Tiwesdæg and literally means "Tiw's Day".[1] Tiw is the Old English form of the Proto-Germanic god *Tîwaz, or Týr in Old Norse. *Tîwaz derives from the Proto-Indo-European base *dei-, *deyā-, *dīdyā-, meaning 'to shine', whence comes also such words as "deity".[2]
The German Dienstag and Dutch dinsdag are derived from the Germanic custom of the thing, as Tiw / Týr also had a strong connection to the thing.
The Latin name dies Martis ("day of Mars") is equivalent to the Greek ἡμέρα Ἄρεως (hēméra Áreōs, "day of Ares"). In most languages with Latin origins (Italian, French, Spanish, Catalan, Romanian, Galician, Sardinian, Corsican, but not Portuguese), the day is named after Mars, the Roman parallel of the Ancient Greek Ares (Ἄρης).
In some Slavic languages the word Tuesday originated from Old Church Slavonic word въторъ meaning "the second". Bulgarian and Russian Вторник (Vtornik) (Serbian: уторак utorak) is derived from the Bulgarian and Russian adjective for 'second' - Втори (Vtori) or Второй (Vtoroi).
In Japanese, the second day of the week is 火曜日 (kayōbi), from 火星 (kasei), the planet Mars. Similarly, in Korean the word Tuesday is 화요일 (hwa yo il), means literally fire day, and Mars the planet is referred to as the fire star with the same words, but this is unrelated to the Roman god Mars, which is referred to phonetically as Mars.
In the
In the
In Arabic, Tuesday is الثلاثاء (al-Thulatha'), and in Hebrew it is יום שלישי (Yom Shlishi), meaning "the third". When added after the word يوم / יום (yom or youm) it means "the third day".
Religious observances
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In
Tuesday is also viewed as the day ruled by Mangala (Mars) in Hinduism.Cultural references
In the Greek world, Tuesday (the day of the week of the Fall of Constantinople) is considered an unlucky day.[7] The same is true in the Spanish-speaking world; it is believed that this is due to the association between Tuesday and Mars, the god of war and therefore related to death.[8] For both Greeks and Spanish-speakers, the 13th of the month is considered unlucky if it falls on Tuesday, instead of Friday. In Judaism, on the other hand, Tuesday is considered a particularly lucky day, because in Bereshit (parashah), known in the Christian tradition as the first chapters of Genesis,[9] the paragraph about this day contains the phrase "it was good" twice.[10]
In the Thai solar calendar, the day is named for the Pali word for the planet Mars, which also means "Ashes of the Dead"; the color associated with Tuesday is pink.
In the folk rhyme Monday's Child, "Tuesday's child is full of grace".
Common occurrences
United States
Tuesday is the usual day for
Video games are commonly released on Tuesdays in the United States, this fact often attributed to the
Australia
In Australia, the board of the Reserve Bank of Australia meets on the first Tuesday of every month except January.[15] The federal government hands down the federal budget on the second Tuesday in May, the practice since 1994 (except in 1996 and 2016).[16] The Melbourne Cup is held each year on the first Tuesday in November.[17]
Astrology
In
.Named days
- Black Tuesday, in the United States, refers to Tuesday, October 29, 1929, part of the great Stock Market Crash of 1929. This was the Tuesday after Black Thursday.
- Easter Tuesday is the Tuesday within the Octave of Easter.
- system administratorscall this day Black Tuesday.
- Shrove Tuesday (also called Mardi Gras – Fat Tuesday) precedes the first day of Lent in the Western Christian calendar.
- Super Tuesday is the day many American states hold their presidential primary elections.
- one-time secular observanceheld on that day.
References
Notes
- ^ "Tuesday". Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved 31 August 2010.
- ^ Klein, E., "deity" and "Tuesday", Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language (Elsevier Publishing, 1966), pp. 417—18, 1662.
- ^ Turner, Sir Ralph Lilley (1962). "aṅgāraka 126". A comparative dictionary of the Indo-Aryan languages. London: Oxford University Press. Digital Dictionaries of South Asia, University of Chicago. p. 7. Archived from the original on 15 December 2012. Retrieved 21 February 2010.
126 aṅgāraka 1. Pali 'red like charcoal'; Sanskrit aṅārī. (speculative) 2. Pali aṅgāraka masculine 'Mars'; Sanskrit aṅāro masculine 'Tuesday'.
- ^ "Each Day of a Week Dedicated to a Particular Hindu God" (PDF). londonsrimurugan.org. Retrieved 6 October 2023.
- ^ "Hindu Fasting".
- ^ "Weekly Rituals in the Practice of Hinduism".
- ^ "The fall of Constantinople". The Economist. 23 December 1999. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
- ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2018-07-18.
- ^ "Bereshit - Genesis - Chapter 1 (Parshah Bereshit) - Tanakh Online - Torah - Bible". Retrieved 6 October 2023.
- ^ Bereishit 1:9-13 (in the Christian tradition known as Genesis). Discussed in Marvin J. Heller, "Frankfurt on the Oder—First Edition: Background", in Printing the Talmud: Complete Editions, Tractates, and Other Works and the Associated Presses from the Mid-17th Century through the 18th Century (Leiden: Brill), 47-56.
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- ^ "Bill introduced to move Election Day to weekend". Retrieved 2018-02-03.
- ^ "The Weird Reason Why Video Games Are Released On Tuesdays". Business Insider. Retrieved 2018-03-07.
- ^ "Why Albums Are Released On Tuesdays In The U.S." NPR.org. Retrieved 2018-03-07.
- ^ "Industry Sets Friday as Global Record Release Day". Billboard.com. Retrieved 2018-05-03.
- ^ Australia, scheme=AGLSTERMS AglsAgent; corporateName=Reserve Bank of. "Reserve Bank Board". Reserve Bank of Australia. Retrieved 6 October 2023.
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- ^ "Melbourne Cup Day in Australia". www.timeanddate.com.
Sources
- Grimm, Jacob. 1875–78. Deutsche Mythologie. Fourth ed., curated by Elard Hugo Meyer, 3 vols. Berlin: F. Dümmler. Reprinted Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1965.