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English Two boys in pajamas .
pyjamas ( Australia, UK, Canada, borrowed from Hindi पैजामा ( paijāmā ) / Urdu پائِجامَہ ( pāijāma ) , using Classical Persian پَای ( pāy ) instead of پَا ( pā ) )
Etymology From Urdu پاجامہ ( pājāma ) (Hindi पाजामा ( pājāmā ) ), from Classical Persian پَاجَامَه ( pājāma , “ trousers, drawers ” ) , from پَا ( pā , “ leg ” ) + جَامَه ( jāma , “ garment ” ) .
Pronunciation
Noun pajamas pl normally plural , singular pajama
Clothes for wearing to bed and sleeping in, usually consisting of a loose-fitting shirt and pants/trousers.Loose-fitting trousers worn by both sexes in various southern Asian countries including India .
Usage notes Pajamas is chiefly an American spelling; the rest of the English-speaking world uses pyjamas
Hypernyms
Derived terms
Descendants ( via singular form pajama ) :
Translations 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 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) n
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
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Lithuanian
Pronunciation
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Noun pãjamas
accusative of pãjamos ( “ income ” )
Welsh
Etymology Borrowed from English pyjamas
Pronunciation
Noun pajamas pl no singulative )
Alternative form of pyjamas
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
