Days and months

📅 Kazan Tatar names of days of the week: 

düşəmbe – Monday 

sişəmbe – Tuesday 

çərşəmbe – Wednesday 

pənceşəmbe – Thursday 

comğa – Friday 

şimbə – Saturday 

yəkşəmbe – Sunday 

📅 Mishar Tatar names of days of the week: 

başken – Monday 

buşken – Tuesday 

çərşəmbe – Wednesday 

atnakiç / keçatna – Thursday 

atnaken / yoma – Friday 

atnaras – Saturday 

bazar ken / ursatna / başkiç – Sunday 

📅 While not exactly a newbie level of information, here are some historical names of days of the week in Kazan Tatar (keep in mind that there are more names, and also some of the names are identical to the Mishar Tatar names): 

tuğan – Monday

atlağan – Tuesday

qankön – Wednesday

atnakiç – Thursday

comğa – Friday

atnartı – Saturday

bazar – Sunday

📅 Names of the months in Tatar are very similar to the ones in English: 

ğinwar – January 

fevral – February 

mart – March 

aprel – April 

may – May 

iyün – June 

iyül – July 

avgust – August 

sentyabr – September 

oktyabr – Oktober 

noyabr – November 

dekabr – December 

Most of these are borrowed from Russian preserving its pronunciation. There are also historical Tatar names that we talk about in our culture section.