Pajamas - Wiktionary

English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:pajamasWikipedia

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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• (Mid-Atlantic, New England, Southern US) IPA(key): /pəˈd͡ʒɑ.məz/[1]
• IPA(key): (Canada, Midland US, Northern US, Western US) /pəˈd͡ʒæ.məz/[1]
• (Ireland) IPA(key): /pəˈd͡ʒaː.məs/, /pəˈd͡ʒæː.məs/
• (Indic) IPA(key): /pə(j).dʒɑ.mɑs/, /pɑː(j)-/, /pɛː-/
• (Philippines) IPA(key): /pɐˈd͡ʒaː.mɐs/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: pa‧ja‧mas

Noun

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pajamas pl (plural only, attributive pajama)

1. Clothes for wearing to bed and sleeping in, usually consisting of a loose-fitting shirt and pants/trousers. Alternative form: (rare) pajama She put on a coat over her new pair of pajamas.
2. Loose-fitting trousers worn by both sexes in various southern Asian countries including India.
3. (cricket, slang) The coloured uniform worn by players in professional limited overs matches.

Usage notes

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Pajamas is chiefly an American spelling; the rest of the English-speaking world uses pyjamas.

Hypernyms

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• bedwear
• nightclothes
• nightwear
• sleepwear

Derived terms

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• dayjamas
• jammies
• llama's pajamas
• pajama
• pajamahadeen
• pj's
• the cat's pyjamas

Descendants

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(via singular form pajama):

• → Hebrew: פִּיגָ׳מָה (pijáma)
• → Japanese: パジャマ (pajama)
• → Korean: 파자마 (pajama)
• → Polish: piżama
• → Tagalog: padyama

Translations

[edit] clothes for wearing to bed and sleeping in

Albanian: pizhamë f Arabic: مِنَامَةٌ f (mināmatun) Armenian: պիժամա (hy) (pižama), ննջազգեստ (hy) (nnǰazgest) Azerbaijani: pijama Belarusian: піжа́ма f (pižáma) Bengali: পায়জামা (bn) (paẏjama) Bulgarian: пижа́ма (bg) 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) f or m 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

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• nightie
• nightshirt

References

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1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 A Latent Class Analysis of American English Dialects

Lithuanian

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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pãjamas

1. accusative of pãjamos (“income”)

Welsh

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Alternative forms

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• pyjamas

Etymology

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Borrowed from English pyjamas.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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pajamas pl (no singulative)

1. alternative form of pyjamas

Mutation

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radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
pajamas	bajamas	mhajamas	phajamas

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