pajamas

English

Two boys in pajamas.

Alternative forms

• 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

• (Mid-Atlantic, New England, Southern US) IPA^(key): /pəˈd͡ʒɑ.məz/
• (Canada, Midland US, Northern US, Western US) IPA^(key): /pəˈd͡ʒæ.məz/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

pajamas pl (normally plural, singular pajama)

1. Clothes for wearing to bed and sleeping in, usually consisting of a loose-fitting shirt and pants/trousers.
2. 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

• bedwear
• nightclothes
• nightwear
• sleepwear

Derived terms

• jammies
• pj's
• the cat's pyjamas
• pajama
• dayjamas

Descendants

(via singular form pajama):

• → Korean: 파자마 (pajama)
• → Japanese: パジャマ (pajama)
• → Tagalog: padyama

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) 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

• 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

• nightshirt
• nightie

Lithuanian

Noun

pãjamas

1. accusative of pãjamos (“income”)

Welsh

Alternative forms

• pyjamas

Etymology

Borrowed from English pyjamas.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pajamas pl (no singulative)

1. Alternative form of pyjamas

Mutation

Mutated forms of pajamas

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.