pajamas

English

Two boys in pajamas (sleepwear)

Alternative forms

• pyjamas (Australia, UK, Canada)

Etymology

From Urdu/Hindi پایجامه (pāyjāma) / पैजामा (payjāmā), from Persian پايجامه / پاجامه (pāyjāma / pājāma, “leg garment”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pəˈdʒɑ.məz/, /pəˈdʒæ.məz/

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Noun

Wikipedia pajamas (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.

Derived terms

• cat's pajamas

Translations

clothes for wearing to bed and sleeping in

• Albanian: pizhamë (sq)
• Arabic: بجامة (ar) (bijaama) f
• Armenian: պիժամա (hy) (pižama) sg, ննջազգեստ (hy) (nnǰazgest) sg
• Catalan: pijama (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 睡衣 (cmn) (shuìyī)

• Czech: pyžamo (cs) n
• Danish: pyjamas (da) c
• Dutch: pyjama (nl) m
• Esperanto: piĵamo (eo)
• Estonian: pidžaama (et)
• Finnish: pyjama (fi), yöpuku (fi)
• French: pyjama (fr) m
• German: Pyjama (de) m, Schlafanzug (de) m
• Hindi: पाजामा (hi) (pājāmā), पैजामा (hi) (paijāmā)
• Hungarian: pizsama (hu)
• Indonesian: piyama (id)

• Interlingua: pajama
• Italian: pigiama (it) m
• Japanese: パジャマ (ja) (pajama), 寝間着 (ja) (ねまき, nemaki)
• Korean: 파자마 (ko) (pajama)
• Macedonian: пижама (mk) (pižáma) f, пижами (mk) (pižámi) pl
• Maltese: paġama (mt) f
• Norwegian: pysjamas (no) m
• Persian: پايجامه (fa), پیژامه (fa)
• Polish: piżama (pl) f, pidżama (pl) f
• Portuguese: pijama (pt) m
• Romanian: pijama (ro) f
• Russian: пижама (ru) (pižáma) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пиџама (sh) f

  Latin: pidžama (sh) f

• Spanish: pijama (es), pijamas (es) n
• Swedish: pyjamas (sv) c
• Turkish: pijama (tr)

loose-fitting trousers worn in the Far East

• Polish: piżama (pl) f, pidżama (pl) f

See also

• nightshirt
• nightie