semana

From Old Navarro-Aragonese semana, from Late Latin septimāna.

• IPA^(key): /seˈmana/
• Syllabification: se‧ma‧na
• Rhymes: -ana

semana f (plural semanas)

1. week

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “semana”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /seˈmana/ [seˈma.na]
• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: se‧ma‧na

semana f (plural semanes)

1. alternative form of selmana

Borrowed from Spanish semana.

semana

1. week

Borrowed from Spanish semana.

• IPA^(key): /seˈmana/ [s̪eˈma.n̪ɐ]
• Hyphenation: se‧ma‧na

semána (Badlit spelling ᜐᜒᜋᜈ)

1. week

   Synonym: pitlaw

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:semana.

Borrowed from Spanish semana.

• IPA^(key): /seˈmana/ [seˈma.n̪a]
• Hyphenation: se‧ma‧na

semána (Basahan spelling ᜐᜒᜋᜈ)

1. week

   Haros duwang semana siya dai nagpupuli.

   S/he hasn't gone home for two weeks.

Inherited from Spanish semana, from Old Spanish setmana, from Late Latin septimāna, from Latin septimus (“seventh”), from septem (“seven”), from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥.

• IPA^(key): /seˈmana/, [seˈma.na]
• Hyphenation: se‧ma‧na

semana

1. week

Borrowed from Spanish semana, from Late Latin septimana.

• IPA^(key): [ʃiˈmaː.naʔ]

semana (inanimate)

1. Week.
   • 17C: Bernardino de Sahagún, Chimalpahin, Exercicio quotidiano, f. 1r.

     tlaxexelolli yn ipan cecemilhuitl ynic ontlanj. ce semana.

     divided into each of the days with which a week is completed.

• Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón (1997), Arthur J. O. Anderson, Susan Schroeder, transl., Codex Chimalpahin, Volume 2, →ISBN, pages 130–131

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese semana, from Late Latin septimāna (“week”), from Latin septimānus (“related to the seventh element of a series”, adjective), from septimus (“seventh”).

• IPA^(key): /seˈmana/
• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: se‧ma‧na

semana f (plural semanas)

1. week

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021), Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN, page 256

Inherited from Late Latin septimāna.

semana f (plural semanes) (ORB, broad)

1. week

• semaine in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• semana in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese semana, from Late Latin septimāna (“week”), from Latin septimānus (“related to the seventh element of a series”, adjective), from septimus (“seventh”).

• IPA^(key): /seˈmana/ [s̺eˈmã.nɐ]
• Rhymes: -ana
• Hyphenation: se‧ma‧na

semana f (plural semanas)

1. week

   Synonyms: semán, semá, somana, domá

   Has de saber que carta feira da primeira semana de Frebeiro chegaronche a este lugar vinte e catro.

   You have to know that the fair letter of the first week of February reached this place the twenty-four.

• “semana”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “semana”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “semana”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “semana”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “semana”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Borrowed from Spanish semana.

• IPA^(key): /seˈmana/ [seˈma.na]
• Rhymes: -ana
• Hyphenation: se‧ma‧na

semána

1. week

Borrowed from Spanish semana.

• IPA^(key): /seˈmana/ [seˈma.na]
• Hyphenation: se‧ma‧na

semána (Kur-itan spelling ᜐᜒᜋᜈ)

1. (rare) week

   Synonyms: lawas, dominggo

2. (common) Semana Santa

From Latin septimāna.

semana f (Hebrew spelling סימאנה)

1. week

semana f (plural semane)

1. alternative form of semmana

Inherited from Late Latin septimāna.

• IPA^(key): /seˈmana/

semana f (plural semanas)

1. week

• Aragonese: semana

• Nagore Laín, Francho (2021), Vocabulario de la crónica de San Juan de la Peña (versión aragonesa, s. XIV), Zaragoza: Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, page 409

semana f (plural semanas)

1. alternative form of setmana

• somana (archaic)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese semana, from Late Latin septimāna (“week”), from Latin septimānus (“related to the seventh element of a series”, adjective), from septimus (“seventh”).

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /sɛˈmɐ.na/
• (Rural Central Brazil) IPA^(key): /siˈmɐ.nɐ/

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

  (file)

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɐnɐ, (Brazil) -ɐ̃nɐ
• Hyphenation: se‧ma‧na

semana f (plural semanas)

1. week (period of seven days)

• Angolar: thomana
• Annobonese: sumanu
• Guinea-Bissau Creole: semana, sumana, simana
• Indo-Portuguese: sumana, suman, sumané
• Kabuverdianu: sumána, semána, simána
• Kristang: sumana, semana
• Principense: sumana
• → Hupdë: semana
• → Kadiwéu: semaana
• → Konkani: सोमान (somān), सुमान (sumān)
• → Mbya Guarani: semana
• → Tetum: semana

• “semana”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “semana”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from Spanish semana.

semana

1. week

Inherited from Old Spanish semana, setmana, from Late Latin septimāna (“week”), from Latin septimānus (“related to the seventh element of a series”, adjective), from septimus (“seventh”).

• IPA^(key): /seˈmana/ [seˈma.na]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: se‧ma‧na

semana f (plural semanas)

1. week (7 days)
   • 2025 August 3, Edward-Isaac Dovere, “Demócratas a favor de Israel intentan distanciarse de Netanyahu para frenar el giro del partido en medio de la crisis en Gaza”, in CNN en Español‎^[2]:

     Chuck Schumer y Kirsten Gillibrand, quien lidera la comisión de campaña del Senado demócrata, han expresado su preferencia por Stevens, quien publicó la semana pasada una declaración en la que hace un llamado a cooperar para lograr que llegue comida a Gaza y liberar a los rehenes israelíes.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• days of the week: días de la semana (appendix): domingo (as the first day of the week in most of Central and South America) · lunes · martes · miércoles · jueves · viernes · sábado · domingo (as the last day of the week in Spain, Costa Rica, Cuba and other South American countries) ^[edit]
• año
• día
• mes

• “semana”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Borrowed from Spanish semana.

semana

1. week

-semana (infinitive kusemana)

1. Reciprocal form of -sema

Conjugation of -semana
Positive present -nasemana Subjunctive -semane Negative -semani Imperative singular semana
Infinitives
Positive kusemana Negative kutosemana
Imperatives
Singular semana Plural semaneni
Tensed forms
Habitual husemana Positive past positive subject concord + -lisemana Negative past negative subject concord + -kusemana
Positive present (positive subject concord + -nasemana) Singular Plural 1st person ninasemana/nasemana tunasemana 2nd person unasemana mnasemana 3rd person m-wa(I/II) anasemana wanasemana other classes positive subject concord + -nasemana
Negative present (negative subject concord + -semani) Singular Plural 1st person sisemani hatusemani 2nd person husemani hamsemani 3rd person m-wa(I/II) hasemani hawasemani other classes negative subject concord + -semani
Positive future positive subject concord + -tasemana Negative future negative subject concord + -tasemana
Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -semane) Singular Plural 1st person nisemane tusemane 2nd person usemane msemane 3rd person m-wa(I/II) asemane wasemane other classes positive subject concord + -semane
Negative subjunctive positive subject concord + -sisemane Positive present conditional positive subject concord + -ngesemana Negative present conditional positive subject concord + -singesemana Positive past conditional positive subject concord + -ngalisemana Negative past conditional positive subject concord + -singalisemana
Gnomic (positive subject concord + -asemana) Singular Plural 1st person nasemana twasemana 2nd person wasemana mwasemana 3rd person m-wa(I/II) asemana wasemana m-mi(III/IV) wasemana yasemana ji-ma(V/VI) lasemana yasemana ki-vi(VII/VIII) chasemana vyasemana n(IX/X) yasemana zasemana u(XI) wasemana see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) kwasemana pa(XVI) pasemana mu(XVIII) mwasemana
Perfect positive subject concord + -mesemana "Already" positive subject concord + -meshasemana "Not yet" negative subject concord + -jasemana "If/When" positive subject concord + -kisemana "If not" positive subject concord + -siposemana Consecutive kasemana / positive subject concord + -kasemana Consecutive subjunctive positive subject concord + -kasemane Object concord —
Relative forms General positive (positive subject concord + -semana- + relative marker) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -semanaye -semanao m-mi(III/IV) -semanao -semanayo ji-ma(V/VI) -semanalo -semanayo ki-vi(VII/VIII) -semanacho -semanavyo n(IX/X) -semanayo -semanazo u(XI) -semanao see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -semanako pa(XVI) -semanapo mu(XVIII) -semanamo Other forms (subject concord + tense marker + relative marker + -semana) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -yesemana -osemana m-mi(III/IV) -osemana -yosemana ji-ma(V/VI) -losemana -yosemana ki-vi(VII/VIII) -chosemana -vyosemana n(IX/X) -yosemana -zosemana u(XI) -osemana see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -kosemana pa(XVI) -posemana mu(XVIII) -mosemana
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information.

• simana

Borrowed from Spanish semana.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /seˈmana/ [sɛˈmaː.n̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: se‧ma‧na

semana (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜋᜈ)

1. week

   Synonym: linggo

• The word is usually used only in certain expressions.

• “semana”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018

From Portuguese semana.

semana

1. week

Borrowed from Spanish semana.

semana

1. week