weekend

See also: week-end

Englisch

Alternative forms

week-end (dated)
w/e (occasional use)

Etymology

From week +‎ end. Originally a Northern England regionalism (see 1903 quotation), in more general use from late 19th century.^[1]^[2] Compare Saterland Frisian Wiekeneende (“weekend”), West Frisian wykein (“weekend”), Dutch weekeinde (“weekend”), German Low German Wekenenn (“weekend”), German Wochenende (“weekend”).

Pronunciation

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Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -ɛnd, -iːkɛnd
Homophone: weakened (some accents)

Nomen

weekend (plural weekends)

The break in the working week, usually two days including the traditional holy or sabbath day. Thus in western countries, Saturday and Sunday.
- 1874 July–December, W. Senior, “With the Herring Fleet”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, page 704:
  “They can live upon barley-meal without a morsel of meat from week-end to week-end, can these miserable Sawnies,” quoth another.
- 1903, Francis Markham with Sir Clements Robert Markham, Recollections of a town boy at Westminster, 1849–1855, page 34:
  […] often took a few boys down there for what we North Country folk call the week-end — Saturday and Sunday; it was also used as a sanatorium if required.
- 1921 June 21, The Earl of Oxford and Asquith, K.G., chapter XX, in Memories and Reflections 1852–1927, volume 2, Cassell and Company, published 1928, →OCLC, page 197:
  I love a phrase of Dizzy's in one of his later letters to Lady Bradford, whom he reproaches for her addiction to what we now call week-end visits to country houses: “the monotony of organized platitude.”

Usage notes

Historically in North America and parts of Europe, people would often work on Saturday as well, or at least until noon on Saturday. Thus the “weekend” might begin at noon or later on Saturday in older texts.

To describe the soonest upcoming weekend:

(UK, Australia, New Zealand) “at the weekend”, “on the weekend”, “this weekend”, “for the weekend”
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(US, Canada) “on the weekend”, “this weekend”, “for the weekend” (“at the weekend” is not used)
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Derived terms

Related terms

weekday

Descendants

→ Arabic: ويكند
→ Czech: víkend
→ French: weekend
→ German: Wochenende (calque)
→ Hungarian: víkend
→ Italian: weekend
→ Polish: weekend
→ Russian: уик-энд (uik-end)
→ Serbo-Croatian: vìkend
→ Slovak: víkend
→ Macedonian: викенд
→ Swedish: weekend

Translations

break in the working week

Afrikaans: naweek
Albanian: fundjavë f, uikend m
Arabic: نِهَايَة الْأُسْبُوع f (nihāyat al-ʾusbūʿ), عَطْلَة الْأُسْبُوع f (ʿaṭlat al-ʾusbūʿ)
Gulf Arabic: ويكند m (wīkand)

Hejazi Arabic: ويكند m (wīkind) (Friday and Saturday in Saudi Arabia), نهاية الأسبوع f (nihāyat al-ʾusbūʿ)
Armenian: շաբաթ-կիրակի (šabatʻ-kiraki), շաբաթվա վերջ (šabatʻva verǰ), ուիքենդ (uikʻend), վիքենդ (hy) (vikʻend)
Azerbaijani: həftəsonu, altı-bazar
Basque: asteburu (eu), astebukaera (eu)
Belarusian: выхадны́я m pl (vyxadnýja), уік-э́нд m (uik-énd), кане́ц ты́дня m (kanjéc týdnja)
Breton: dibenn-sizhun m
Bulgarian: уике́нд (bg) m (uikénd), съ́бота и неде́ля (sǎ́bota i nedélja)
Burmese: အားလပ်ရက် (a:lap-rak)
Catalan: cap de setmana (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 週末／周末 (zau¹ mut⁶), 周末 (zau¹ mut⁶), 禮拜尾／礼拜尾 (lai⁵ baai³ mei⁵), 礼拜尾 (lai⁵ baai³ mei⁵)

Mandarin: 週末／周末 (zh) (zhōumò), 周末 (zh) (zhōumò)

Min Nan: 週末／周末, 周末 (chiu-boa̍t)
Czech: konec týdne m, víkend (cs) m
Danish: weekend (da) c
Dutch: weekend (nl) n, weekeinde (nl) n
Esperanto: semajnfino
Estonian: nädalavahetus (et)
Faroese: vikuskifti n
Finnish: viikonloppu (fi)
French: week-end (fr) m, weekend (fr) m, fin de semaine (fr) f (especially Canada)
Galician: fin de semana (gl) f, finde m (colloquial)
Georgian: უიკენდი (uiḳendi), შაბათ-კვირა (šabat-ḳvira)
German: Wochenende (de) n, Weekend (de) n (rare)
Greek: σαββατοκύριακο (el) n (savvatokýriako)
Greenlandic: weekendi
Hawaiian: hopena pule
Hebrew: סוֹף שָׁבוּעַ m (sof shavúa') (Friday and Saturday in Israel), סוֹפָ״שׁ m (sofá"sh), סופש m (sofash)
Hindi: सप्ताहांत m (saptāhānt), वीकेंड m (vīkeṇḍ)
Hungarian: hétvége (hu)
Hunsrik: Wochenn n
Icelandic: helgi (is) f
Indonesian: akhir pekan (id)
Irish: deireadh seachtaine m
Italian: weekend (it) m, fine settimana (it) m or f
Japanese: 週末 (ja) (しゅうまつ, shūmatsu), 土日 (ja) (どにち, donichi)
Kazakh: демалыс күндері (demalys künderı), уик-энд (uik-énd)
Khmer: ចុងអាទិត្យ (cong ʼaatɨt)
Korean: 주말(週末) (ko) (jumal)
Kyrgyz: демалыш күндөрү (demalış kündörü)
Ladino: fin de semana
Lao: ທ້າຍສັບປະດາ (thāi sap pa dā)
Latgalian: nedeļgols m
Latvian: vīkends m
Lithuanian: savaitgalis m
Macedonian: викенд m (vikend)
Malay: hujung minggu (ms)
Maltese: tmiem il-ġimgħa m
Maori: mutunga wiki, wīkene
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: амралтын өдөр (mn) (amraltyn ödör)
Navajo: Damóo yázhí dóó Damóo
Norwegian:
Bokmål: helg m or f

Nynorsk: helg f
Occitan: dimenjada (oc) f
Persian: آخر هفته (âxer-e hafte)
Plautdietsch: Wäakjenenj
Polish: weekend (pl) m inan, koniec tygodnia m
Portuguese: final de semana (pt), fim de semana (pt)
Romanian: sfârșit de săptămână n, weekend n
Russian: уик-э́нд (ru) m (uik-énd), выходны́е (ru) m pl (vyxodnýje), коне́ц неде́ли m (konéc nedéli), суббо́та и воскресе́нье (subbóta i voskresénʹje)
Samoan: fa'ai'uga o vāiaso
Scottish Gaelic: deireadh-seachdain m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: вѝкенд m

Roman: vìkend (sh) m
Slovak: víkend (sk) m, koniec týždňa m
Slovene: vikend m, konec tedna m
Sotho: wikente
Spanish: fin de semana (es) m, finde (es) m (colloquial)
Sranan Tongo: wikènt
Swahili: wikendi (sw)
Swedish: helg (sv) c, veckoslut (sv) n, weekend (sv) c
Tajik: охири ҳафта (oxir-i hafta)
Tetum: semana rohan
Thai: สุดสัปดาห์ (sùt-sàp-daa), วัน สุดสัปดาห์ (wan sùt-sàp-daa)
Tongan: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: hafta sonu (tr)
Ukrainian: вихідні́ m pl (vyxidní), уїк-е́нд m (ujik-énd), кіне́ць ти́жня m (kinécʹ týžnja)
Urdu: ہفتے کے آخر (hafte ke āxir), اختتام ہفتہ (ixtatām-e-hafta), آخر ہفتہ (āxir-e-hafta), ختم ہفتہ (xatam-e-hafta), ہفتے کا اختتام (hafte kā ixtatām)
Uzbek: hafta oxiri
Vietnamese: cuối tuần (vi)
Welsh: penwythnos (cy) m
Yiddish: סוף־וואָך m (sof-vokh)

Verb

weekend (third-person singular simple present weekends, present participle weekending, simple past and past participle weekended)

To spend the weekend.
We'll weekend at the beach.

Adjective

weekend (not comparable)

Of, relating to or for the weekend.
I'm wearing my weekend shoes.
Occurring at the weekend.
a weekend break

Translations

of, relating to or for the weekend

Esperanto: semajnfina
Faroese: vikuskiftis-
Finnish: viikonloppu-, viikonloppuinen
Hungarian: hétvégi (hu)
Macedonian: ви́кенд- (víkend-)
Polish: weekendowy (pl)
Slovak: víkendový

occurring at the weekend

Esperanto: semajnfina
Faroese: vikuskiftis-
Finnish: viikonloppuinen
Hungarian: hétvégi (hu)
Macedonian: ви́кенд- (víkend-)
Polish: weekendowy (pl)
Slovak: víkendový

References

^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “weekend”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
^ weekend, week-end at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.

Dänisch

Etymology

Borrowed from English weekend.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈʋiːˌɡ̊ɛnˀd̥], [ˈwiːˌɡ̊ɛnd̥]

Nomen

weekend c (singular definite weekenden, plural indefinite weekender)

weekend

Inflection

Declension of weekend

common gender	Singular		Plural
common gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	weekend	weekenden	weekender	weekenderne
genitive	weekends	weekendens	weekenders	weekendernes

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English weekend.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈʋikɛnt/
Audio: (file)
Hyphenation: week‧end

Nomen

weekend n (plural weekenden or weekends, diminutive weekendje n)

weekend

Synonyms

weekeinde

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English weekend.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /wi.kɛnd/
Audio: (file)

Nomen

weekend m (plural weekends)

post-1990 spelling of week-end
Synonym: (Canada) fin de semaine

Italian

Alternative forms

week-end

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English weekend.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /wiˈkɛnd/^[1]
Rhymes: -ɛnd

Nomen

weekend m (invariable)

weekend
Synonym: fine settimana

References

^ week-end in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

weekend

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English weekend.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈwi.kɛnt/
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -ikɛnt
Syllabification: wee‧kend

Nomen

weekend m inan

weekend
Synonym: dwudzionek

Declension

Declension of weekend

	singular	plural
nominative	weekend	weekendy
genitive	weekendu	weekendów
dative	weekendowi	weekendom
accusative	weekend	weekendy
instrumental	weekendem	weekendami
locative	weekendzie	weekendach
vocative	weekendzie	weekendy

Derived terms

adjective

weekendowy

noun

weekendowicz

verb

weekendować

Related terms

adverb

weekendowo

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English weekend.

Nomen

weekend n (plural weekenduri)

weekend

Declension

Declension of weekend

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) weekend	weekendul	(niște) weekenduri	weekendurile
genitive/dative	(unui) weekend	weekendului	(unor) weekenduri	weekendurilor
vocative	weekendule		weekendurilor

Derived terms

Swedish

Etymology

From English weekend.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /wiːk.ɛnd/, /viːk.ɛnd/

Nomen

weekend c

a weekend (break in the working week)

Declension

Declension of weekend
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	weekend	weekenden	weekender	weekenderna
Genitive	weekends	weekendens	weekenders	weekendernas

Synonyms

[1] Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “weekend”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

[2] weekend, week-end at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.

[3] week-end in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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Dutch

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French

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Italian

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