pyjamas

See also: Pyjamas and pyjamas'

English

A girl (and a doll) wearing pyjamas

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindustani (Hindi पैजामा (paijāmā) / Urdu پائِجامَہ (pāijāma)), from Classical Persian پایجامه (pāyjāma), archaic form of پاجامه (pājāma).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɪˈd͡ʒɑːməz/, (archaic) /paɪˈd͡ʒɑːməz/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (South Asia) IPA^(key): /pə(j).dʒɑ.mɑs/, /pɑː(j)-/, /pɛː-/

Noun

pyjamas pl (plural only, attributive pyjama)

1. UK standard form of pajamas.
   • 1973, John Clucas Cannell, The Secrets of Houdini, Dover Publications, US, page 231:

     The performer opens one of the small drawers and takes out two sets of pyjamas.

   • 2007, Ann Brashares, Summers of the Sisterhood: Forever in Blue, page 178:

     She wasn′t sure if Lena looked more surprised by her clobbering hug or the sight of her pyjamas on the bright New York City sidewalk.

   • 1901, Rudyard Kipling, Kim:

     There was a Delhi embroidered waistcoat to slip over a milky white shirt, fastening to the right, ample and flowing; green pyjamas with twisted silk waist-string; and that nothing might be lacking, russia leather slippers, smelling divinely, with arrogantly curled tips.

   • 2010, Lucy Norris, Recycling Indian Clothing: Global Contexts of Reuse and Value, Indiana University Press, page 34:

     They too revert to simpler, non-western clothes—saris, dhotis, and pyjamas.

Hypernyms

• bedwear
• nightclothes
• nightwear
• sleepwear

Derived terms

• the cat's pyjamas

Descendants

(via singular form pyjama):

• → Arabic: بِيجَامَا (bījāmā)
• → Bulgarian: пижа́ма (pižáma)
• → Catalan: pijama
• → Czech: pyžamo
• → Dutch: pyjama
• → Estonian: pidžaama
• → Finnish: pyjama
• → French: pyjama
  • → Romanian: pijama
  • → Turkish: pijama
• → German: Pyjama
• → Greek: πυτζάμα (pytzáma)
• → Lithuanian: pižama
• → Italian: pigiama
• → Norwegian: pysjamas
• → Persian:
  • Dari: پیژامه (pīžāma)
  • Iranian Persian: پیژامه (pižâme)
  • Tajik: пижома (pižoma)
• → Portuguese: pijama
• → Russian: пижама (pižama)
  • → Armenian: պիժամա (pižama)
  • → Azerbaijani: pijama
  • → Georgian: პიჟამა (ṗižama)
  • → Kazakh: пижама (pıyjama)
  • → Kyrgyz: пижама (pijama)
  • → Tajik: пижама (pižama)
  • → Turkmen: pijama
  • → Uzbek: pijama
• → Spanish: pijama
• → Ukrainian: піжа́ма (pižáma)
• → Yiddish: פּיזשאַמע (pizhame)

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English pyjamas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pyjaːmas/, [pʰyˈjæːmas]

Noun

pyjamas c (singular definite pyjamassen, plural indefinite pyjamasser or pyjamas)

1. pajamas, pyjamas

Inflection

Declension of pyjamas

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	pyjamas	pyjamassen	pyjamasser pyjamas	pyjamasserne pyjamassene
genitive	pyjamas'	pyjamassens	pyjamassers pyjamas'	pyjamassernes pyjamassenes

Further reading

• pyjamas on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

French

Noun

pyjamas m

1. plural of pyjama

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English pyjamas.

Noun

pyjamas m pl

1. pyjamas

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pʏˈʃɑːmɑs]

Noun

pyjamas

1. pajamas

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English. See there for more.

Noun

pyjamas m (definite singular pyjamasen, indefinite plural pyjamasar, definite plural pyjamasane)

1. pajamas

References

• “pyjamas” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʏjɑːmas/

Noun

pyjamas c

1. pajamas, pyjamas

   sova i pyjamas

   sleep in pajamas

Declension

Declension of pyjamas

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	pyjamas	pyjamas
	definite	pyjamasen	pyjamasens
plural	indefinite	pyjamasar	pyjamasars
	definite	pyjamasarna	pyjamasarnas

Derived terms

• pyjamaspapper
• pyjamasparty
• pyjamasrandig

See also

• nattlinne (“nightgown”)
• nattskjorta (“nightshirt”)

References

• “pyjamas”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “pyjamas”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Welsh

Alternative forms

• pajamas

Etymology

Borrowed from English pyjamas.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /pəˈd͡ʒamas/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /pəˈd͡ʒamaz/

Noun

pyjamas pl (no singulative)

1. pyjamas

Mutation

Mutated forms of pyjamas

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
pyjamas	byjamas	mhyjamas	phyjamas

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.