jeans

See also: Jeans

English

This man and woman are wearing jeans, as well as jean jackets.

These jeans are on display at the factory that produces them.

Etymology

From Gene(s) (also spelled Jean(s)), an obsolete English name for the Italian city of Genoa. Compare French Gênes. In the context of clothing, the term originally denoted a kind of coarse cotton (known more fully as Gene(s) fustian) that was associated with Genoa. It began to be used for trousers made of such cloth in the 19th century. At this point, the final -s was reanalysed as a plural ending.

Pronunciation

• enPR: jēnz, IPA^(key): /d͡ʒiːnz/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːnz
• Homophone: genes

Noun

jeans pl (plural only)

2. (clothing) A pair of trousers made from denim cotton.

   Traditionally most jeans are dyed dark blue.

   • 1873, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], Charles Dudley Warner, The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, published 1874, →OCLC, page 19:

     As a general thing, they were dressed in homespun “jeans,” blue or yellow—there were no other varieties of it; all wore one suspender and sometimes two—yarn ones knitted at home,—some wore vests, but few wore coats.

   • 2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

     Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.

Noun

jeans

1. plural of jean

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:trousers

Derived terms

• bikini jeans
• blue jeans
• boyfriend jeans
• cream in one's jeans
• cream one's jeans
• destroyed jeans
• jeanlike
• jeans jacket
• jeanswear
• jeggings
• jorts
• mom jeans
• skinny jeans

Related terms

• Genoese, Genovese

Descendants

• → Greek: τζιν (tzin)
• → Hindi: जीन्स (jīns)
• → Irish: jíons
• → Polish: dżinsy

Translations

plural of jean — see jean

denim trousers

• Albanian: jeans m, xhins (sq) m
• Amharic: ጂንስ (ǧins)
• Arabic: جِينْز m (jīnz)

  Egyptian Arabic: جينز m (jīnz), جينس m (jens)

  Hijazi Arabic: جينز m (jīnz), جنز m (jinz)

• Armenian: ջինս (hy) (ǰins)
• Azerbaijani: cins şalvar, cins (az)
• Belarusian: джы́нсы m pl (džýnsy)
• Bengali: জিনস (bn) (jins)
• Bulgarian: джи́нси m pl (džínsi), дъ́нки pl (dǎ́nki)
• Burmese: ဂျင်းဘောင်းဘီ (gyang:bhaung:bhi)
• Catalan: texans (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 牛仔褲 / 牛仔裤 (ngau⁴ zai² fu³)

  Eastern Min: 牛囝褲 / 牛囝裤 (ngù-giāng-kó)

  Hakka: 牛仔褲 / 牛仔裤 (ngiù-chṳ́-fu)

  Hokkien: 牛仔褲 / 牛仔裤 (zh-min-nan) (gû-á-khò͘), 拍鐵仔褲 / 拍铁仔裤 (zh-min-nan) (phah-thih-á-khò͘)

  Mandarin: 牛仔褲 / 牛仔裤 (zh) (niúzǎikù)

  Wu: 牛仔褲 / 牛仔裤 (⁶gnieu-tse-khu)

• Czech: džíny (cs) f pl, džínsy (cs) f pl
• Danish: cowboybukser, jeans (da) pl
• Dutch: jeansbroek (nl) m or f, jeans (nl), spijkerbroek (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: ĝinzo
• Estonian: teksad pl, teksased pl, teksapüksid (et)
• Finnish: farmarihousut pl, farkut (fi) pl
• French: jeans (fr) m pl
• Georgian: ჯინსი (ǯinsi)
• German: Niethose (de) f, Jeans (de) f, Jeanshose (de) f
• Greek: τζιν (el) n (tzin)
• Haitian Creole: abako
• Hebrew: גִּ׳ינְס m (jins)
• Hindi: जीन्स f (jīns)
• Hungarian: farmer (hu), farmernadrág (hu)
• Icelandic: gallabuxur f pl
• Indonesian: jins
• Irish: jíons m, brístí géine m
• Italian: jeans (it) m pl, ginsi m pl (rare)
• Japanese: ジーンズ (ja) (jīnzu), ジーパン (ja) (jīpan)
• Kazakh: джинс (djins)
• Khmer: ខោខូវ (khao khəw), ខោខោវប៊យ (khao khaowbɔɔy), ខោខូវប៊ (khao khəwbɔɔ)
• Korean: 청바지 (ko) (cheongbaji), 진 (ko) (jin)
• Kyrgyz: джинсы (djinsı)
• Lao: ໂສ້ງຄາບອຍ (sōng khā bǭi)
• Latin: genuenses n pl
• Latvian: džinsi pl
• Lithuanian: džinsai pl
• Macedonian: фармерки f pl (farmerki)
• Malay: jean (ms)
• Maori: tarau tāngari
• Marathi: जीन्स (jīnsa)
• Mongolian: жийнс (mn) (žiins), жинсэн өмд (žinsen ömd)
• Norwegian: jeans (no) m, olabukse m or f
• Persian: جین (fa) (jin), لی (fa) (li)
• Polish: dżinsy (pl) pl, jeansy (pl) f pl, teksasy (pl) f pl
• Portuguese: jeans m pl or m, calça jeans f
• Romanian: blugi (ro) pl
• Russian: джи́нсы (ru) m pl (džínsy)
• Scottish Gaelic: dìnichean f pl
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фармерке pl, фармерице pl, траперице pl, рабатинке pl, краварке pl

  Roman: farmerke (sh) pl, farmerice (sh) pl, traperice (sh) pl, rabatinke pl, kravarke pl

• Slovak: rifle (sk) m pl, džínsy f pl
• Slovene: kavbojke f pl
• Spanish: blue jeans m pl (blu yins, Latin America), bluyín (es) m (Latin America, colloquial), jeans m pl (yins, Latin America), mahones m pl (Puerto Rico), pantalones de mezclilla m pl (Mexico), pitusa m or f (Cuba), tejanos (es) m pl (Northeastern Spain), vaqueros (es) m pl (Spain standard usage), jean m (yin), blue jean m (blu yin), mahón (es) m, vaquero (es) m, tejano (es) m, pantalón de mezclilla m
• Swedish: jeans (sv) pl
• Tajik: ҷинс (tg) (jins)
• Tamil: ஜீன்ஸ் (jīṉs)
• Thai: ยีนส์ (yiin), ยีน (th) (yiin), กางเกงยีน (gaang-geeng yiin)
• Tibetan: འཇིན ('jin), རས་བྱིང (ras bying)
• Turkish: kot (tr), kot pantolon (tr), blucin (tr)
• Ukrainian: джи́нси (uk) m pl (džýnsy)
• Urdu: جینس f (jīns)
• Uzbek: jinsi
• Vietnamese: jeans (vi), quần jeans, quần bò (vi)
• Welsh: jîns
• White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
• Yami: abtan
• Yiddish: דזשינס (dzhins)

See also

• 👖

Anagrams

• Janes, janes

Dutch

Alternative forms

• jean (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from English jeans.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

jeans f (plural jeans, diminutive jeansje n)

1. a pair of jeans (denim trousers)
2. (by extension) any denim garment
3. (invariable) the cotton fabric denim

Synonyms

• (trousers): jeansbroek m, spijkerbroek m

Derived terms

• jeanstint

Related terms

• blue jeans
• Genuees m & adjective

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʒin/, (after English) /dʒins/

• Audio:

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Noun

jeans m

1. plural of jean

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English jeans.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒins/
• Rhymes: -ins

Noun

jeans m pl (plural only)

1. jeans (trousers)

   Synonym: (rare) ginsi

   Hypernym: pantaloni

   di jeans ― jean, denim (relational)

Further reading

• jeans in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English jeans.

Noun

jeans m pl

1. (Jersey) jeans

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English jeans. Doublet of Génova. The feminine and feminine plural genders for sense “denim trousers” stem from an ellipsis of calça jeans / calças jeans (“denim trousers”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒĩs/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒĩs/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒĩʃ/

• Rhymes: -ĩs
• Hyphenation: jeans

Noun

jeans m (uncountable)

1. (Brazil) denim (type of textile)

   Synonyms: brim, denim, ganga

   O jeans é frequentemente tingido de anil. ― Denim is often dyed indigo.

Noun

jeans m or f or m pl or f pl (sometimes plural only, in variation, invariable)

1. jeans (denim trousers)

   Synonym: (Portugal) calças de ganga

   Ontem usei uns jeans brancos. ― Yesterday I wore some white jeans.

Adjective

jeans (invariable, not comparable)

1. (Brazil, relational) denim

   calça jeans ― denim trousers; jeans

   saia jeans ― denim skirt

   jaqueta jeans. ― denim jacket

Further reading

• “jeans”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “jeans”, in Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisboa: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 2001–2025
• “jeans”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “jeans”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “jeans”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English jeans.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈʝins/ [ˈɟ͡ʝĩns]

• IPA^(key): /ˈʝins/ [ˈɟ͡ʝĩns] (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /ˈʃins/ [ˈʃĩns] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /ˈʒins/ [ˈʒĩns] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Rhymes: -ins

Noun

jeans m (plural jeans)

1. jeans (trousers)

   Synonym: pantalones vaqueros

2. plural of jean

Usage notes

• Spelling proscribed as an anglicism; the spelling yin or yines is preferred.

Swedish

Noun

jeans c

1. (plural only) jeans

Declension

Declension of jeans

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	-	-
	definite	-	-
plural	indefinite	jeans	jeans
	definite	jeansen	jeansens

References

• jeans in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• jeans in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)