Tuesday is theday of the week betweenMonday andWednesday. According to international standardISO 8601, Monday is the first day of the week; thus, Tuesday is the second day of the week.[1] According to many traditional calendars, however,Sunday is the first day of the week, so Tuesday is the third day of the week. In some Muslim countries,Saturday is the first day of the week and thus Tuesday is the fourth day of the week.
The nameTuesday derives from the Old EnglishTiwesdæg and literally means "Tiw's Day".[2] Tiw is the Old English form of the Proto-Germanic god*Tîwaz, orTýr inOld Norse.*Tîwaz derives from theProto-Indo-European base*dei-,*deyā-,*dīdyā-, meaning 'to shine', whence comes also such words as "deity".[3]
The GermanDienstag and Dutchdinsdag are derived from the Germanic custom of thething, as Tiw / Týr also had a strong connection to the thing.
In someSlavic languages the word Tuesday originated fromOld Church Slavonic wordвъторъ meaning "the second". Bulgarian and RussianВторник (Vtornik) (Serbian:уторакutorak) is derived from the Bulgarian and Russian adjective for 'second' –Втори (Vtori) orВторой (Vtoroi).
InJapanese, the second day of the week is火曜日 (kayōbi), from火星 (kasei), the planetMars. Similarly, inKorean the word Tuesday is화요일 (hwa yo il), means literally fire day, and Mars the planet is referred to as the fire star with the same words, but this is unrelated to the Roman god Mars, which is referred to phonetically as Mars.
InArabic, Tuesday isالثلاثاء (al-Thulatha'), and inHebrew it isיום שלישי (Yom Shlishi), meaning "third day". When added after the wordيوم /יום (yom oryoum) it means "the third day".
InHinduism, Tuesday is a popular day for worshipping and praying toHanuman andKartikeya, some also worshipKali,Durga,Parvati, andGanesha. Many Hindus fast during Tuesday.[5][6][7] Many Hindu married women also observe the Mangala Gauri Vrat of fasting every Tuesday in the Hindu month ofShravana, as the month is dedicated toGauri andShiva. Tuesday is also viewed as the day ruled byMangala (Mars) in Hinduism.
In theGreek world, Tuesday (the day of the week of theFall of Constantinople) is considered an unlucky day.[8] The same is true in theSpanish-speaking world; it is believed that this is due to the association between Tuesday and Mars, the god of war and therefore related to death.[9] For both Greeks and Spanish-speakers, the 13th of the month is considered unlucky if it falls on Tuesday, instead ofFriday. InJudaism, on the other hand, Tuesday is considered a particularly lucky day, because inBereshit (parashah), known in the Christian tradition as the first chapters ofGenesis,[10] the paragraph about this day contains the phrase "it was good" twice.[11]
In theThai solar calendar, the day is named for thePali word for the planet Mars, which also means "Ashes of the Dead"; the color associated with Tuesday ispink.
In the folk rhymeMonday's Child, "Tuesday's child is full of grace".
Tuesday is the usual day forelections in theUnited States. Federal elections take place on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November; this date was established by a law of 1845 forpresidential elections (specifically for the selection of theElectoral College), and was extended to elections for theHouse of Representatives in 1875 and for theSenate in 1914. Tuesday was the earliest day of the week which was practical for polling in the early 19th century: citizens might have to travel for a whole day to cast their vote, and would not wish to leave on Sunday which was a day of worship for the great majority of them. However, a bill was introduced in 2012 to move elections to weekends, with a co-sponsor stating that "by moving Election Day from a single day in the middle of the workweek to a full weekend, we are encouraging more working Americans to participate. Our democracy will be best served when our leaders are elected by as many Americans as possible."[12]
Video games are commonly released on Tuesdays in the United States, this fact often attributed to theSonic the Hedgehog 2 "Sonic 2s day" marketing campaign in 1992.[13]DVDs andBlu-rays are released on Tuesday.[14] Albums were typically released on Tuesdays as well, but this has changed toFridays globally in 2015.[15]
In Australia, the board of theReserve Bank of Australia meets on the first Tuesday of every month except January.[16] The federal government hands down the federal budget on the second Tuesday in May, the practice since 1994 (except in 1996 and 2016).[17] TheMelbourne Cup is held each year on the first Tuesday in November.[18]
Black Tuesday, in theUnited States, refers to Tuesday, October 29, 1929, part of the great Stock Market Crash of 1929. This was the Tuesday after Black Thursday.
Travel Tuesday is an unofficial observance occurring the Tuesday after Thanksgiving.
Giving Tuesday, or #GivingTuesday, is a day encouraging people to do good and a global movement to promotegenerosity. It takes place on the Tuesday following Black Friday and was launched in 2012 in the United States.
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^Klein, E., "deity" and "Tuesday",Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language (Elsevier Publishing, 1966), pp. 417—18, 1662.
^Turner, Sir Ralph Lilley (1962)."aṅgāraka 126".A comparative dictionary of the Indo-Aryan languages. London:Oxford University Press. Digital Dictionaries of South Asia,University of Chicago. p. 7. Archived fromthe original on 15 December 2012. Retrieved21 February 2010.126 aṅgāraka 1. Pali 'red like charcoal'; Sanskrit aṅārī. (speculative) 2. Pali aṅgāraka masculine 'Mars'; Sanskrit aṅāro masculine 'Tuesday'.
^Bereishit 1:9-13 (in the Christian tradition known as Genesis). Discussed in Marvin J. Heller, "Frankfurt on the Oder—First Edition: Background", inPrinting the Talmud: Complete Editions, Tractates, and Other Works and the Associated Presses from the Mid-17th Century through the 18th Century (Leiden: Brill), 47-56.DOI:https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004376731_005andISBN9789004376724
^Australia, scheme=AGLSTERMS AglsAgent; corporateName=Reserve Bank of."Reserve Bank Board".Reserve Bank of Australia. Retrieved6 October 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
