Painting depicting the English god Thunor (the Norse Thor), after whom Thursday is named, by Mrten Eskil Winge, 1872 Thursday ( i /rzdi/ or /rzde/) is the day of the week following Wednesday and before Friday. According to the ISO 8601 international standard adopted in most western countries, it is the fourth day of the week. In countries that use the Sunday-first convention, Thursday is defined as the fifth day of the week. It is the fifth day of the week in the Judeo-Christian calendar as well, and was defined so in the ancient Mesopotamian and biblical calendars. The name is derived from Old English nresdg and Middle English Thuresday, which means "Thor's day". Etymology The contemporary name comes from the Old English unresdg, "Thunor's Day" [1][2][3] (with loss of -n-, first in northern dialects, from influence of Old Norse orsdagr, meaning "Thor's Day"). Thunor, Donar (German, Donnerstag) and Thor are derived from the Proto-Germanic god Thunraz, god of thunder. Day name See Week-day names for more on naming conventions. Jupiter's day
This section does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (January 2008) In most Romance languages, the day is named after the Roman god Jupiter, who was the god of sky and thunder. In Latin, the day was known as Iovis Dies, "Jupiter's Day". In Latin, the genitive or possessive case of Jupiter was Iovis/Jovis and thus in most Romance languages it became the word for Thursday: Italian gioved, Spanish jueves, French jeudi, Sardinian jvia, Catalan dijous, and Romanian joi. This is also reflected in the p-Celtic Welsh dydd Iau. In most of the languages of India, the word for Thursday is Guruvar var meaning day and guru being the style for Bhaspati, guru to the gods and regent of the planet Jupiter. In Thai, the word is Wan Pharuehatsabodi referring to the Hindu deity Bhaspati, also associated with Jupiter. The astrological and astronomical sign of the planet Jupiter ( ) is sometimes used to represent Thursday. Thor's day Since the Roman god Jupiter was identified with Thunor (Norse Thor in northern Europe), most Germanic languages name the day after this god: Torsdag in Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish, Hsdagur/Trsdagur in Faroese, Donnerstag in German or Donderdag in Dutch. Finnish and Northern Sami, both non-Germanic (Uralic) languages, uses the borrowing "Torstai" and "Duorastat". In the extinct Polabian Slavic language, it was perundan, Perun being the Slavic equivalent of Thor. [4]
Fourth day
This section does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (January 2008) In Slavic languages and in Chinese, this day's name is "fourth" (Slovak tvrtok, Czech tvrtek, Croatian and Bosnian etvrtak, Polish czwartek, Russian "" etverg, Bulgarian "", Serbian "", Macedonian "", Ukrainian "" chetver, Slovene etrtek.). Hungarian uses a Slavic loanword "cstrtk". In Chinese, it's xngqs ("fourth solar day"). In Estonian it's "neljapev", meaning fourth day or fourth day in a week. Fifth day