English
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.
She put on a coat over her new pair of pajamas.
- Loose-fitting trousers worn by both sexes in various southern Asian countries including India.
- (cricket, slang) The coloured uniform worn by players in professional limited overs matches.
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 (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)
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loose-fitting trousers worn in South Asia
See also
References
Lithuanian
Pronunciation
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.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.