pyjamas
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Hindi पैजामा (paijāmā) / Urdu پائِجامَہ (pāijāma), from Classical Persian پایجامه (pāyjāma), archaic form of پاجامه (pājāma).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /pɪˈd͡ʒɑːməz/, (archaic) /paɪˈd͡ʒɑːməz/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]pyjamas pl (plural only)
- British standard spelling of pajamas (clothes for sleeping in).
- 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.
- 1973, John Clucas Cannell, The Secrets of Houdini, Dover Publications, US, page 231:
- British standard spelling of pajamas (loose trousers worn by men and women in South Asia).
- 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
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit](via singular form pyjama):
- → Arabic: بِيجَامَا (bījāmā)
- → Bulgarian: пижа́ма (pižáma)
- → Catalan: pijama
- → Czech: pyžamo
- → Dutch: pyjama
- → Estonian: pidžaama
- → Finnish: pyjama
- → French: pyjama
- → German: Pyjama
- → Greek: πυτζάμα (pytzáma)
- → Lithuanian: pižama
- → Italian: pigiama
- → Norwegian: pysjamas
- → Persian:
- → Portuguese: pijama
- → Russian: пижама (pižama)
- → Spanish: pijama
- → Ukrainian: піжа́ма (pižáma)
- → Yiddish: פּיזשאַמע (pizhame)
Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English pyjamas.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pyjamas c (singular definite pyjamassen, plural indefinite pyjamasser or pyjamas)
Inflection
[edit]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
[edit]- pyjamas on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
French
[edit]Noun
[edit]pyjamas m
Norman
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English pyjamas.
Noun
[edit]pyjamas m pl
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pyjamas
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English. See there for more.
Noun
[edit]pyjamas m (definite singular pyjamasen, indefinite plural pyjamasar, definite plural pyjamasane)
References
[edit]- “pyjamas” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pyjamas c
Declension
[edit]nominative | genitive | ||
---|---|---|---|
singular | indefinite | pyjamas | pyjamas |
definite | pyjamasen | pyjamasens | |
plural | indefinite | pyjamasar | pyjamasars |
definite | pyjamasarna | pyjamasarnas |
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]- nattlinne (“nightgown”)
- nattskjorta (“nightshirt”)
References
[edit]Welsh
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English pyjamas.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (North Wales) IPA(key): /pəˈd͡ʒamas/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /pəˈd͡ʒamaz/
Noun
[edit]pyjamas pl (no singulative)
Mutation
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- English pluralia tantum
- British English
- English terms with quotations
- en:Clothing
- en:Sleep
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- French non-lemma forms
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- nrf:Clothing
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