pajamas

English

Two boys in pajamas.

Alternative forms

• pyjamas (Australia, UK, Canada, borrowed from Hindi पैजामा (paijāmā) / Urdu پائِجامَہ (pāijāma), using Classical Persian پَای (pāy) instead of پَا (pā))

Etymology

From Urdu پاجامہ (pājāma) / Hindi पाजामा (pājāmā), from Classical Persian پَاجَامَه (pājāma, “trousers, drawers”), from پَا (pā, “leg”) + جَامَه (jāma, “garment”).

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

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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

• bedwear
• nightclothes
• nightwear
• sleepwear

Derived terms

• jammies
• pj's
• the cat's pyjamas
• pajama
• dayjamas

Descendants

(via singular form pajama):

• → Korean: 파자마 (pajama)
• → Japanese: パジャマ (pajama)
• → Tagalog: padyama

Translations

clothes for wearing to bed and sleeping in

• Albanian: pizhamë f
• Arabic: بِيجَامَا f (bījāmā)
• Armenian: պիժամա (hy) (pižama), ննջազգեստ (hy) (nnǰazgest)
• Azerbaijani: pijama
• Belarusian: піжа́ма f (pižáma)
• Bengali: পায়জামা (bn) (paẏjama)
• Bulgarian: пижа́ма f (pižáma), но́щница (bg) f (nóštnica)
• Burmese: ညအိပ်ဝတ်စုံ (nya.ip-watcum)
• Catalan: pijama (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 睡衣 (seoi⁶ ji¹), 瞓覺衫／𰥛觉衫 (fan³ gaau³ saam¹)

  Hakka: 著睡衫／着睡衫 (chok-soi-sâm), 睡目衫 (soi-muk-sâm)

  Hokkien: 睏衫／困衫 (zh-min-nan) (khùn-saⁿ)

  Mandarin: 睡衣 (zh) (shuìyī)

• 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 (pijáma)
• Hindi: पाजामा (hi) m (pājāmā), पैजामा (hi) m (paijāmā)
• Hungarian: pizsama (hu)
• Icelandic: náttföt (is) f pl
• Ido: pijamo (io)
• Indonesian: piyama (id)
• Interlingua: pajama
• Inupiaq: siñŋunnak
• Irish: pitseámaí m
• Italian: pigiama (it) m
• Japanese: パジャマ (ja) (pajama), 寝間着 (ja) (ねまき, nemaki)
• Kazakh: пижама (pijama)
• Khmer: ឈុតគេង (chut keing), ឈុតគេងយប់ (chut keing yup)
• 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:

  Cyrillic: унтлагын хувцас (untlagyn xuvcas)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pysjamas (no) m, nattdrakt m or f

• Persian: پیژامِه (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: пиџа́ма f

  Roman: pidžáma (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: پاجامَہ m (pājāma), پائِجامَہ m (pāijāma), پَجامَہ m (pajāma), پیجامَہ m (pejāma), پائے جامَہ m (pāe jāma)
• Uyghur: ئۇخلاش كىيىمى (uxlash kiyimi)
• Uzbek: pijama (uz)
• Vietnamese: đồ ngủ, pijama (vi)
• Welsh: pyjamas m, pajamas, siwt nos f
• Yiddish: פּיזשאַמעס f (pizhames)

loose-fitting trousers worn in South Asia

• Bulgarian: шалва́ри (bg) m pl (šalvári)
• Malayalam: പൈജാമ (ml) (paijāma)
• Persian: پاجامِه (fa) (pâjâme)
• Polish: piżama (pl) f, pidżama (pl) f
• Russian: шарова́ры (ru) f pl (šarováry)

See also

• nightshirt
• nightie

Lithuanian

Noun

pãjamas

1. accusative of pãjamos (“income”)

Welsh

Alternative forms

• pyjamas

Etymology

Borrowed from English pyjamas.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pajamas pl (no singulative)

1. Alternative form of 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.