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Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by edflsafoiewq on Sunday September 25, 2022 @04:30PM (#32975827)
In Hebrew the weekdays are named "First", "Second", etc. making "Shabbat" ie Saturday, the last day of the week.
Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by walrus01 on Sunday September 25, 2022 @04:58PM (#32976158)
This is along the same general idea as the Persian/Farsi day names, you've got Jummah which is the western Friday (Islamic day of rest), then the rest of the days are named shanbe, yakshanbe, doshanbe, sehshanbe, and so on.

shanbe = day (first day of the week after Jummah)

yak = one

do = two

seh = three

Literally just day one, day two, day three.

You count upwards in day number until you reach six, then it's Jummah again and it resets.

The city of Dushanbe, Tajikistan being part of the historical extent of the Persian empire and language is literally just named second day.

Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by Cyph0n on Sunday September 25, 2022 @05:21PM (#32976397)
The same roughly applies to Arabic: Sunday (derived from one) to Thursday (derived from five).

The word for Friday seems to be derived from “gathering” (probably due to weekly Islamic mass) and Saturday seems to derived from “sleep” (?).