Weekly in Different Languages
Discover 'Weekly' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Weekly
Afrikaans weekliks | ||
Albanian javore | ||
Amharic ሳምንታዊ | ||
Arabic أسبوعي | ||
Armenian շաբաթական | ||
Assamese সাপ্তাহিক | ||
Aymara sapa semana | ||
Azerbaijani həftəlik | ||
Bambara dɔgɔkun o dɔgɔkun | ||
Basque astero | ||
Belarusian штотыдзень | ||
Bengali সাপ্তাহিক | ||
Bhojpuri साप्ताहिक रूप से होखे वाला बा | ||
Bosnian sedmično | ||
Bulgarian седмично | ||
Catalan setmanalment | ||
Cebuano matag semana | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 每周 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 每週 | ||
Corsican settimanale | ||
Croatian tjedni | ||
Czech týdně | ||
Danish ugentlig | ||
Dhivehi ހަފްތާއަކު އެއްފަހަރު | ||
Dogri हफ्तेवार | ||
Dutch wekelijks | ||
English weekly | ||
Esperanto ĉiusemajne | ||
Estonian kord nädalas | ||
Ewe kwasiɖa sia kwasiɖa | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) lingguhan | ||
Finnish viikoittain | ||
French hebdomadaire | ||
Frisian wykliks | ||
Galician semanalmente | ||
Georgian ყოველკვირეულად | ||
German wöchentlich | ||
Greek εβδομαδιαίος | ||
Guarani arapokõindy pukukue | ||
Gujarati સાપ્તાહિક | ||
Haitian Creole chak semèn | ||
Hausa mako-mako | ||
Hawaiian pule | ||
Hebrew שְׁבוּעִי | ||
Hindi साप्ताहिक | ||
Hmong txhua lub lim tiam | ||
Hungarian heti | ||
Icelandic vikulega | ||
Igbo kwa izu | ||
Ilocano linawas a linawas | ||
Indonesian mingguan | ||
Irish go seachtainiúil | ||
Italian settimanalmente | ||
Japanese 毎週 | ||
Javanese saben minggu | ||
Kannada ಸಾಪ್ತಾಹಿಕ | ||
Kazakh апта сайын | ||
Khmer ប្រចាំសប្តាហ៍ | ||
Kinyarwanda buri cyumweru | ||
Konkani सप्तकी | ||
Korean 주간 | ||
Krio ɛvri wik | ||
Kurdish heftane | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) هەفتانە | ||
Kyrgyz жума сайын | ||
Lao ອາທິດ | ||
Latin weekly | ||
Latvian iknedēļas | ||
Lingala pɔsɔ na pɔsɔ | ||
Lithuanian kas savaitę | ||
Luganda buli wiiki | ||
Luxembourgish wöchentlech | ||
Macedonian неделно | ||
Maithili साप्ताहिक | ||
Malagasy isan-kerinandro | ||
Malay setiap minggu | ||
Malayalam പ്രതിവാര | ||
Maltese kull ġimgħa | ||
Maori ia wiki | ||
Marathi साप्ताहिक | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯅꯨꯃꯤꯠ ꯈꯨꯗꯤꯡꯒꯤ꯫ | ||
Mizo kar tin | ||
Mongolian долоо хоног бүр | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အပတ်စဉ် | ||
Nepali साप्ताहिक | ||
Norwegian ukentlig | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) mlungu uliwonse | ||
Odia (Oriya) ସାପ୍ତାହିକ | ||
Oromo torban torbaniin | ||
Pashto په اونۍ کې | ||
Persian هفتگی | ||
Polish tygodniowo | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) semanal | ||
Punjabi ਹਫਤਾਵਾਰੀ | ||
Quechua sapa semana | ||
Romanian săptămânal | ||
Russian еженедельно | ||
Samoan vaiaso taʻitasi | ||
Sanskrit साप्ताहिकम् | ||
Scots Gaelic gach seachdain | ||
Sepedi beke le beke | ||
Serbian недељно | ||
Sesotho beke le beke | ||
Shona vhiki nevhiki | ||
Sindhi هفتيوار | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) සතිපතා | ||
Slovak týždenne | ||
Slovenian tedensko | ||
Somali toddobaadle ah | ||
Spanish semanal | ||
Sundanese mingguan | ||
Swahili kila wiki | ||
Swedish varje vecka | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) lingguhan | ||
Tajik ҳарҳафтаина | ||
Tamil வாராந்திர | ||
Tatar атна саен | ||
Telugu వారపత్రిక | ||
Thai รายสัปดาห์ | ||
Tigrinya ሰሙናዊ ምዃኑ ይፍለጥ | ||
Tsonga vhiki na vhiki | ||
Turkish haftalık | ||
Turkmen hepdede | ||
Twi (Akan) dapɛn biara | ||
Ukrainian щотижня | ||
Urdu ہفتہ وار | ||
Uyghur ھەپتىلىك | ||
Uzbek haftalik | ||
Vietnamese hàng tuần | ||
Welsh yn wythnosol | ||
Xhosa ngeveki | ||
Yiddish וואכנשריפט | ||
Yoruba osẹ-ọsẹ | ||
Zulu masonto onke |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Albanian | The word "javore" is derived from the Latin word "dies Iovis", meaning "Thursday". |
| Amharic | ሳምንታዊ is also used to talk about something that happens every week, like a TV show or a newspaper. |
| Arabic | "أسبوعي" is derived from the root "سبع" (seven) - thus, "weekly" means something that occurs once in every seven. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "həftəlik" is derived from the Persian word "haftāh", meaning "seven". |
| Basque | The Basque word "astero" comes from the Latin word "hasternum", meaning "yesterday". |
| Belarusian | The word "штотыдзень" comes from the Old Church Slavonic "штатити" (to stand) and "день" (day), and originally meant "every day". |
| Bengali | "সাপ্তাহিক" (weekly) is derived from the Sanskrit word "सप्ताह" (saptaha), meaning "seven days". |
| Bosnian | The word "sedmično" in Bosnian also has a secondary meaning of "weekly newspaper". |
| Bulgarian | The word "седмично" (weekly) comes from the Proto-Slavic word "sedmica," which also means "week" and "seven." |
| Catalan | "Setmanalment" can also refers to the payment system used before the use of paper-money to pay weekly workers. |
| Cebuano | The word may also come from the phrase matag gabii nga semana, which in Cebuano translates to "every night of the week" in English and refers to the "Sabbath of the week" or what Catholics know as "Sunday." |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 每周字面意思为“每星期”，常用于表示“每周一次”的时间频率。 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 每週的「週」字，在古代指「繞著中心旋轉」的意思 |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "settimanale" derives from the Italian word "settimana" meaning "week". |
| Croatian | The word "tjedni" derives from the Proto-Slavic word "*tedьnja", meaning "week" or "period of one week". |
| Czech | The word "týdně" also means "per week". |
| Danish | The Danish word "ugentlig" derives from the Old Norse word "vikna," meaning "a week" or "a shift of work. |
| Dutch | The word "wekelijks" comes from the Old Germanic word "wiko", meaning "a period of seven days". |
| Esperanto | "Ĉiusemajne" literally means "every seventh day" in Esperanto, referring to the seven-day week. |
| Estonian | "Kord" means time and "nädalas" means in week. |
| Finnish | The word "viikoittain" is derived from the Finnish word "viikko" (week), and also means "regularly" or "constantly". |
| French | The word "hebdomadaire" comes from the Greek word "hebdomas," meaning "week". It can also mean "weekly magazine" or "weekly newspaper." |
| Frisian | It is an abbreviation of the Frisian word "wiklikse dagen", which means "weekday", and its spelling and meaning are unique to Frisian. |
| Galician | "Semanalmente" in Galician, like semanally in Spanish, comes from the Ancient Greek word "hebdomadós", meaning "a period of seven days". |
| German | The word "wöchentlich" comes from the German word "Woche" meaning "week" and the suffix "-lich" which means "relating to". |
| Greek | The word "εβδομαδιαίος" comes from the Greek word "εβδομάδα" meaning "week" and the suffix "-αίος" denoting "pertaining to". |
| Haitian Creole | The word "chak semèn" literally means "every seven" in Haitian Creole. |
| Hausa | The word 'mako-mako' in Hausa also means 'the week after last week'. |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word "pule" comes from the Proto-Austronesian word for "day". |
| Hebrew | The word "שְׁבוּעִי" is related to the word "שָׁבוּעַ" which means "week" and the word "שוב" which means "to return". |
| Hindi | The word साप्ताहिक literally means "related to seven nights" in Sanskrit, indicating the cyclic nature of the week. |
| Hmong | In Hmong, the word "txhua lub lim tiam" can also mean "every other week" or "biweekly" depending on the context. |
| Hungarian | The word "heti" originally meant "sevenly" but has since shifted to mean "weekly" due to the seven-day nature of most weeks. |
| Icelandic | The word |
| Igbo | The word 'kwa izu' is a compound word made up of 'kwa' (to count) and 'izu' (week), hence its meaning of 'weekly'. |
| Indonesian | "Mingguan" can also refer to weekly allowance, and to magazines and newspapers published weekly. |
| Irish | The word "go seachtainiúil" can also mean "every second week", "fortnightly" or "bi-weekly" in Irish. |
| Italian | "Settimanalmente" is the singular form of the Latin word "septimanae", which means "a week". |
| Japanese | The kanji "週" in "毎週" means "week", but it can also refer to a cycle or period of time. |
| Javanese | The Javanese word for 'weekly' is derived from the words 'saben' (meaning 'every') and 'minggu' (meaning 'week'). |
| Kannada | ಸಾಪ್ತಾಹಿಕ is derived from the Sanskrit term "सप्त" (seven) and "आह" (day), meaning a seven-day period or a week. |
| Kazakh | "Апта" (week) in Kazakh comes from the Persian word "haft" (seven) and "сайын" (every), indicating a seven-day cycle. |
| Kurdish | In some dialects of Kurdish, "heftane" can also refer to "seven" or "a group of seven". |
| Kyrgyz | The word "жума сайын" can also mean "every week" or "on a weekly basis". |
| Lao | The Lao word ອາທິດ is derived from the Sanskrit word "āditya" meaning "sun" and is also used to refer to "Sunday". |
| Latin | In medieval Latin, weekly meant every eight days, rather than seven |
| Latvian | The word "iknedēļas" derives from the Latvian words "nedēļa" (week) and "ik" (every), meaning "every week". |
| Lithuanian | The word "kas savaitę" literally translates to "who week" in Lithuanian, suggesting a sense of regularity or frequency. |
| Macedonian | The word "неделно" (weekly) comes from the word "недела" (Sunday) and originally meant "on Sundays" or "related to Sundays". |
| Malagasy | "Isan-kerinandro" is derived from "isan'andro," meaning "a day of days," and "kerinandro," meaning "one in a seven day cycle." |
| Malayalam | The word 'പ്രതിവാര' (weekly) is derived from the Sanskrit word 'प्रति' (per) and 'वार' (day), meaning 'occurring every day'. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "kull ġimgħa" is derived from the Arabic phrase "kull juma'ah", which translates to "every Friday." |
| Maori | Ia wiki is also the passive tense form of the verb 'wiki' and can mean to be separated, divided or broken. |
| Marathi | " साप्ताहिक" is a compound of the Sanskrit words "सप्ताह" (week) and "इक" (one) and is also used to refer to a weekly newspaper or magazine. |
| Mongolian | The term "долоо хоног бүр" literally translates to "every seven days" in Mongolian, highlighting the concept of a week as a recurring seven-day cycle. |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | It can also be used to refer to a seven-day span of time, rather than the more specific period of one week. |
| Nepali | साप्ताहिक comes from the root "सप्त," meaning seven, and is used to describe something that happens once every seven days. |
| Norwegian | The word "ukentlig" is derived from the Old Norse word "vika," which means "week." |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word, "mlungu uliwonse" means "weekly" and has a secondary meaning of "every other week". |
| Persian | The Persian word "هفتگی" comes from the word "هفت" meaning "seven", and refers to something that occurs or is published every seven days. |
| Polish | The word "tygodniowo" comes from the word "tydzień" ("week"), which itself comes from the Proto-Slavic word "tedьnь", meaning "time" or "period" |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "semanal" in Portuguese derives from the Latin word "septimana", meaning "seven days". |
| Punjabi | In Urdu "hafta" (Punjabi "hafta") has an additional and different meaning: bribes paid to police or gangsters. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "săptămânal" also has the archaic meaning of "every eight days" or "every Saturday". |
| Russian | The Russian word "еженедельно" originates from the Old Church Slavonic word "недѣля", meaning both "week" and "Sunday". |
| Samoan | The word "weekly" is derived from Old English, where it originally meant “occurring once every seven days”. |
| Serbian | The word "недељно" also means "Sunday" in Serbian, as it derives from the word "недеља" (Sunday). |
| Sesotho | Beke, the first part of le beke, derives from the Dutch word week, which is cognate with week in English. |
| Shona | "Vhiki nevhiki" is derived from the words "vhiki" meaning "week" and "nevhiki" meaning "one", referring to the frequency of occurrence. |
| Sindhi | The word "هفتيوار" is derived from the Persian words "هفته" (week) and "وار" (relative to), and can also mean "weekly income" or "weekly expenditure" in Sindhi. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | "සතිපතා" has the additional meaning of "weekly publication", and it is believed to have derived from the Sanskrit word "saptaha" (week). |
| Slovak | "Týždenne" shares its root with "týždeň," which means "week" in Slovak. |
| Slovenian | The word "tedensko" in Slovenian is derived from the word "teden", meaning "week", and is used to describe something that occurs once a week. |
| Somali | Although "toddoba" means seven and "aadle" means ten in Somali, "toddobaadle ah" literally translates to "nineteen" in Arabic. |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "semanal" derives from the Latin word "septimanalis", which means "occurring every seven days", highlighting its connection to the concept of a week. |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "mingguan" means "weekly", but it can also refer to a "periodical publication".} |
| Swahili | "Kila" is a Swahili word meaning "each," while "wiki" is a seven-day period. "Kila wiki" thus means "every seven days," or "weekly." |
| Swedish | The word "varje vecka" literally means "every week" in Swedish, emphasizing the recurrence of an event. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | From Spanish _lunes_ for "monday" |
| Tajik | The word "ҳарҳафтаина" in Tajik is derived from the Persian words "har" (every) and "hafte" (week). |
| Thai | "รายสัปดาห์" is a compound of "ราย" (report) and "สัปดาห์" (week). |
| Turkish | The word "haftalık" in Turkish has an alternate meaning of "stipend" or "allowance". |
| Ukrainian | The word "щотижня" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "*todъ" meaning "this" and the noun "тиждень" meaning "week". |
| Urdu | ہفتہ وار ('weekly') in Urdu is derived from the Arabic word 'as-sab', meaning 'seven'. |
| Uzbek | The word "haftalik" is derived from the Persian word "haft" (meaning "seven"), and refers to the seven-day period of a week. |
| Vietnamese | The word "hàng tuần" is derived from the Sino-Vietnamese words "hàng" (列) and "tuần" (週), meaning "row" and "week" respectively. |
| Welsh | The etymology of the Welsh word 'yn wythnosol' ('weekly') is uncertain, but it may derive from the Old Welsh word 'oeth' ('eight') and the suffix '-nos' ('night'), perhaps meaning 'every eighth night'. |
| Xhosa | The word ngeveki may also be used in the Xhosa language to refer to "every week" or "weekly." |
| Yiddish | 'וואכנשריפט' originates from German 'Wochen-schrift', meaning 'weekly publication'. |
| Yoruba | The word "osẹ-ọsẹ" in Yoruba can also mean "a period of seven days" or "a week". |
| Zulu | The alternate meaning of 'masonto onke' is 'a long or difficult period'. |
| English | The term 'weekly' can also refer to an amount or quantity provided on a weekly basis, or to something occurring or appearing each week. |