Thursday is the fourth day of the week in most western countries and the fifth day of the week in the Judeo-Christian calendar, falling between Wednesday and Friday. In countries that adopt the Sunday-first convention, it is considered the fifth day of the week. However, in ISO 8601 it is the fourth day of the week.The contemporary name comes from the Old English Žunresdęg (with loss of -n-, first in northern dialects, from influence of Old Norse Žorsdagr), meaning "Day of Thunor", this being a rough Germanic equivalent to the Latin Iovis Dies, "Jupiter's Day". Most Germanic and Romance-speaking countries use their languages' equivalents: German Donnerstag, torsdag in Scandinavia, Italian giovedģ, Spanish jueves, French jeudi, Catalan dijous, and Romanian joi.
In most of the Indian Languages the word for Thursday is Guruvar, with Guru being the Sanskrit name for the planet Jupiter. In Slavic languages and in Chinese, this day's name is "fourth" (Polish czwartek, Russian четверг, pronounced CHET-vierg). Portuguese, too, uses a number for this day: quinta-feira, "fifth day", (see days of the week for more on the different conventions).
In Thailand, the color associated with Thursday is orange, see Thai solar calendar.
- Black Thursday refers to October 24, 1929 when stock prices on the New York Stock Exchange
fell sharply, with record volume of nearly 13 million shares. Five days
later, the market crashed on volume of over 16 million shares a level
not to be surpassed for 39 years. In popular imagery, the crash has
come to mark the beginning of the Great Depression.
- Last Thursday is an important date in the Last Thursdayism movement, a parody of omphalism which claims that the Universe was created last Thursday.
- "Thursday" is the name of an Italian neo realistic film of the 60s.
Thursday was the name of a late 90's movie starring Thomas Jane
about the day a drugdealer gone straight gets pulled back into his old
lifestyle.
The astrological and astronomical sign of the planet Jupiter (
) represents Thursday with similar names in Latin-derived languages, such as the French Jeudi. In English, this became "Thor's Day," since the Roman god Jupiter was identified with Thor in northern Europe.
