pyjamas

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See also: Pyjamas and pyjamas'

English

A girl (and a doll) wearing pyjamas

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɪˈd͡ʒɑːməz/, (archaic) /paɪˈd͡ʒɑːməz/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Noun

pyjamas pl (plural only)

  1. 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.
  2. 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

Derived terms

Descendants

(via singular form pyjama):

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English pyjamas.

Pronunciation

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

French

Noun

pyjamas m

  1. plural of pyjama

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English pyjamas.

Noun

pyjamas m pl

  1. pyjamas

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

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

Swedish

Pronunciation

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

See also

References

Welsh

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English pyjamas.

Pronunciation

Noun

pyjamas pl (no singulative)

  1. pyjamas

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
pyjamas byjamas mhyjamas phyjamas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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