pajamas

pajamas

English

Two boys in pajamas.

Alternative forms

• pyjamas (Australia, UK, Canada)

Etymology

From Urdu پاجامہ‎ (pājāma)/Hindi पैजामा (paijāmā), from Persian پايجامه / پاجامه‎ (pâyjâma / pâjâma, “leg garment”), akin to پا‎ (“leg”) + جامه‎ (“garment”).

Pronunciation

• (Mid-Atlantic, New England, Southern American English) IPA^(key): /pəˈd͡ʒɑ.məz/[1]
• (Canada, Midland, Northern US, Western US) IPA^(key): /pəˈd͡ʒæ.məz/[1]

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Noun

pajamas pl (normally plural, singular pajama)

1. Clothes for wearing to bed and sleeping in, usually consisting of a loose-fitting shirt and pants/trousers.
2. Loose-fitting trousers worn by both sexes in various southern Asian countries including India.

Usage notes

Pajamas is chiefly an American spelling; the rest of the English-speaking world uses pyjamas.

Hypernyms

• nightwear

Derived terms

• jammies
• pj's
• cat's pajamas
• pajama

Translations

clothes for wearing to bed and sleeping in

Albanian: pizhamë f Arabic: بِجَامَة‎ f (bijāma) Armenian: պիժամա (hy) (pižama), ննջազգեստ (hy) (nnǰazgest) Azerbaijani: pijama Belarusian: піжа́ма f (pižáma) Bengali: পায়জামা (payjama) Bulgarian: пижа́ма f (pižáma), но́щница f (nóštnica) Burmese: please add this translation if you can Catalan: pijama (ca) m Chinese: Cantonese: 睡衣 (seoi6 ji1), 瞓覺衫, 瞓觉衫 (fan3 gaau3 saam1) Hakka: 著睡衫, 着睡衫 (chok-soi-sâm), 睡目衫 (soi-muk-sâm) Mandarin: 睡衣 (zh) (shuìyī) Min Nan: 睏衫 (zh-min-nan) (khùn-saⁿ) Cornish: pyjama m, dillas nos f pl Czech: pyžamo (cs) n Danish: pyjamas (da) c Dutch: pyjama (nl) m Esperanto: piĵamo Estonian: pidžaama Finnish: pyjama (fi), yöpuku (fi) French: pyjama (fr) m Galician: pixama (gl) m Georgian: პიჟამო (ṗižamo) German: Pyjama (de) m (Germany, Austria) n (Switzerland), Schlafanzug (de) m, Pölter (de) m (Westphalia, less common) Greek: πιτζάμα (el) f (pitzáma) Hebrew: פִּיגָ׳מָה‎ f (pijama) Hindi: पाजामा (hi) (pājāmā), पैजामा (hi) (paijāmā) Hungarian: pizsama (hu) Icelandic: náttföt (is) Ido: pijamo (io) Indonesian: piyama (id) Interlingua: pajama Inupiaq: siñŋunnak Irish: pitseámaí m Italian: pigiama (it) m Japanese: パジャマ (pajama), 寝間着 (ねまき, nemaki) Kazakh: пижама (kk) (pijama) Khmer: ឈុតគេង (chutkeing) Korean: 파자마 (ko) (pajama) Kyrgyz: пижама (pijama) Lao: ສົ້ງເສື້ອນຸ່ງນອນ (song sư̄a nung nǭn), ເສຶ້ອນອນ (sưa nǭn), ເສື້ອນອນ (sư̄a nǭn) Latvian: pidžama f Lithuanian: pižama f Macedonian: пижа́ма f (pižáma) Malayalam: പൈജാമ (ml) (paijāma) Maltese: paġama f Manx: cullee chadlee f, pyjamaghyn Maori: kākahu moe Mongolian: унтлагын хувцас (untlagyn xuvcas) Norwegian: pysjamas (no) m, nattdrakt m or f Persian: پایجامه‎ (pâyjâme), پیژامه‎ (fa) (pižâme) Plautdietsch: Schlopkjleet n Polish: piżama (pl) f, pidżama (pl) f Portuguese: pijama (pt) m Romanian: pijama (ro) f Russian: пижа́ма (ru) f (pižáma) Scottish Gaelic: aodach-oidhche m, deise-leapa f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: пиџама f Roman: pidžama (sh) f Sinhalese: පිජාමා (pijāmā) Slovak: pyžamo n, pyžama f Slovene: pižama (sl) f Spanish: pijama (es), pijamas (es) n Swedish: pyjamas (sv) c Tagalog: pandiyama, padyama, damit-pantulog Tajik: пижама (pižama) Telugu: పైజామా (paijāmā) Thai: ชุดนอน (chút-nɔɔn) Turkish: pijama (tr) Turkmen: pijama Ukrainian: піжа́ма f (pižáma) Urdu: پاجامہ‎ (pājāma), پائجامہ‎ (pāejāma), پجامہ‎ (pajāma) Uzbek: pijama (uz) Vietnamese: đồ ngủ, pijama (vi) Welsh: pyjamas m, pajamas, siwt nos f Yiddish: פּיזשאַמעס‎ f (pizhames)

loose-fitting trousers worn in the Far East

Bulgarian: шалвари (bg) m pl (šalvari) Malayalam: പൈജാമ (ml) (paijāma) Polish: piżama (pl) f, pidżama (pl) f

See also

• nightshirt
• nightie

References

1. A Latent Class Analysis of American English Dialects

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Welsh

Alternative forms

• pyjamas

Etymology

Borrowed from English pyjamas.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /paˈd͡ʒamas/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /paˈd͡ʒamaz/

Noun

pajamas m pl

1. pyjamas

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
pajamas	bajamas	mhajamas	phajamas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.