Editing Sunday (section)

===Culture and languages===
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In the Judaic, Christian, and some Islamic traditions, Sunday has been considered the first day of the week. A number of languages express this position either by the name of the day or by the naming of the other days. In Hebrew it is called יום ראשון ''yom rishon'', in Arabic الأحد ''al-ahad'', in Persian and related languages یکشنبه ''yek-shanbe'', all meaning "first".

In Greek, the names of the days Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday ({{langx|el|Δευτέρα}}, {{langx|el|Τρίτη}}, {{langx|el|Τετάρτη}}, and {{langx|el|Πέμπτη}}) mean "second", "third", "fourth", and "fifth", respectively. This leaves Sunday in the first position of the week count. Similarly in [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]], where the days from Monday to Friday are counted as "segunda-feira", "terça-feira", "quarta-feira", "quinta-feira" and "sexta-feira". In Vietnamese, the working days in the week are named as: ''Thứ Hai'' (Second), ''Thứ Ba'' (Third), ''Thứ Tư'' (Fourth), ''Thứ Năm'' (Fifth), ''Thứ Sáu'' (Sixth), and ''Thứ Bảy'' (Seventh). Sunday is called "Chủ Nhật"([[chữ Hán]]: 主日) meaning "[[Lord's Day]]". Some colloquial text in the south of [[Vietnam]] and from [[Catholic Church in Vietnam|the church]] may use a different reading of "Chúa Nhật"(in contemporary Vietnamese, "Chúa" means [[God]] or [[Lord]] and "Chủ" means own). In German, Wednesday is called ''Mittwoch'', literally "mid-week", implying the week runs from Sunday to Saturday.

In the Yoruba culture of West Africa, Sunday is called ''Oj̣ó ̣Aikú''. Ojó Aiku is the day that begins a new week known as "Day of Rest". It is the day Orunmila, the convener of Ifá to earth, buried the mother of Esu Odara and his wife, Imi. Since that occurrence, Yoruba people decided to refer to the day as ''Ojó Aiku.''

[[Slavic languages]] implicitly number Monday as day number one. 
{| class="wikitable"
! 
! [[Polish language|Polish]]
! [[Slovak language|Slovak]]
! [[Czech language|Czech]]
! [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]]
! [[Belarusian language|Belarusian]]
! [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]]
! [[Russian language|Russian]]
! literal or derived meaning
|-
! Monday
| poniedziałek
| pondelok
| pondělí
| понеділок
| панядзелак 
| понеделник
| понедельник
| (day) after not working
|-
! Tuesday
| wtorek
| utorok
| úterý
| вівторок
| аўторак 
| вторник
| вторник
| second (day)
|-
! Wednesday 
| środa
| streda
| středa
| середа
| серада
| сряда
| среда
| middle (day)
|-
! Thursday 
| czwartek
| štvrtok
| čtvrtek
| четвер
| чацвер
| четвъртък
| четверг
| fourth (day) 
|-
! Friday 
| piątek
| piatok
| pátek
| п'ятниця
| пятніца
| петък
| пятница
| fifth (day)
|-
! Saturday
| sobota
| sobota
| sobota
| субота
| субота
| събота
| суббота
| sabbath
|-
! Sunday
| niedziela
| nedela 
| neděle 
| неділя
| нядзеля
| неделя
| воскресенье
| not working (day) 
|}
Russian ''воскресение'' (Sunday) means "resurrection".
[[Hungarian language|Hungarian]] ''szerda'' (Wednesday), ''csütörtök'' (Thursday), and ''péntek'' (Friday) are Slavic [[loanword]]s, so the correlation with "middle", "four", and "five" are not evident to Hungarian speakers. Hungarians use ''Vasárnap'' for Sunday, which means "market day".

In the [[Maltese language]], due to its [[Siculo-Arabic]] origin, Sunday is called ''Il-Ħadd'', a corruption of ''wieħed'', meaning "one". Monday is ''It-Tnejn'', meaning "two". Similarly, Tuesday is ''It-Tlieta'' (three), Wednesday is ''L-Erbgħa'' (four), and Thursday is ''Il-Ħamis'' (five).

In [[Armenian language|Armenian]], Monday is ''Yerkoushabti'', literally meaning "second day of the week", Tuesday ''Yerekshabti'' "third day", Wednesday ''Chorekshabti'' "fourth day", Thursday ''Hingshabti'' "fifth day". Saturday is ''Shabat'' coming from the word ''Sabbath'' or ''Shabbath'' in Hebrew, and ''Kiraki'', coming from the word ''Krak'', meaning "fire", is Sunday, referring to the sun as a fire. [[Apostle John]], in Revelations 1:10, refers to the "Lord's Day", {{langx|el|Κυριακή ἡμέρα}} (''kyriakḗ hēmera''), that is, "the day of the Lord", possibly influencing the Armenian word for Sunday.

In many European countries, calendars show Monday as the first day of the week,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/weekinfo.htm#TSW |title=Calendar Weeks |author=J. R. Stockton |access-date=2010-01-05 |archive-date=2014-01-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140113000828/http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/weekinfo.htm#TSW |url-status=dead }}</ref> which follows the [[ISO 8601]] standard.

In the [[Persian calendar]], used in Iran and Afghanistan, Sunday is the second day of the week. However, it is called "number one" as counting starts from zero; the first day - Saturday - is denoted as day zero.

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