pyjamas

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

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

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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.

• bedwear
• nightclothes
• nightwear
• sleepwear

(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)
  • → Azerbaijani: pijama
  • → Kazakh: пижама (pijama)
  • → Kyrgyz: пижама (pijama)
  • → Tajik: пижама (pižama)
  • → Turkmen: pijama
  • → Uzbek: pijama
• → Spanish: pijama
• → Ukrainian: піжа́ма (pižáma)

Borrowed from English pyjamas.

• IPA^(key): /pyjaːmas/, [pʰyˈjæːmas]

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

1. pajamas, pyjamas

• pyjamas on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

pyjamas m

1. plural of pyjama

Borrowed from English pyjamas.

pyjamas m pl

1. pyjamas

• IPA^(key): [pʏˈʃɑːmɑs]

pyjamas

1. pajamas

Borrowed from English. See there for more.

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

1. pajamas

• “pyjamas” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /pʏjɑːmas/

pyjamas c

1. pajamas, pyjamas

   sova i pyjamas

   sleep in pajamas

• pyjamaspapper
• pyjamasparty
• pyjamasrandig

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

• pyjamas in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• pyjamas in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• pajamas

Borrowed from English pyjamas.

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

pyjamas pl (no singulative)

1. pyjamas