Khamis
/xaˈmiːs/noun
An Arabic masculine given name and surname, also used in Arabic as the word for Thursday.
Did you know?Arabic Thursday, al-khamīs, literally means “the fifth,” counting Thursday as the fifth day of the traditional Sunday-first week.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Semitic
Proto-Semitic
*ḫamš-
“Five; a reconstructed Semitic numeral root.”
Classical Arabic
Arabic
خَمْس (ḵams)
“Five.”
Classical Arabic
Arabic
خَمِيس (ḵamīs)
“The fifth; Thursday, understood as the fifth day of the week.”
Medieval Arabic
Arabic
الخَمِيس (al-khamīs)
“The Thursday; the definite article al- makes the expression “the fifth.””
Modern English
English
Khamis
“A transliterated Arabic personal name or surname; also an occasional English rendering of the Arabic weekday name.”