# pyjamas
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

pyjamas pl (plural only)
* 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.
* 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.
* (cricket) British standard spelling of pajamas.

#### Hypernyms

* bedwear
* nightclothes
* nightwear
* sleepwear

#### Derived terms

* the cat's pyjamas

#### Descendants

(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)
** → Armenian: պիժամա (pižama)
** → Azerbaijani: pijama
** → Georgian: პიჟამა (ṗižama)
** → Kazakh: пижама (pijama)
** → Kyrgyz: пижама (pijama)
** → Tajik: пижама (pižama)
** → Turkmen: pijama
** → Uzbek: pijama
* → Spanish: pijama
* → Ukrainian: піжа́ма (pižáma)
* → Yiddish: פּיזשאַמע (pizhame)

## Danish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English pyjamas.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pyjaːmas/, [pʰyˈjæːmas]

### Noun

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

#### Inflection
### Further reading

* pyjamas on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{da}$

## French
### Noun

pyjamas m
* plural of pyjama

## Norman
### Etymology

Borrowed from English pyjamas.

### Noun

pyjamas m pl
* pyjamas

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [pʏˈʃɑːmɑs]

### Noun

pyjamas
* pajamas

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

Borrowed from English. See there for more.

### Noun

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

### References

* “pyjamas” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pʏjɑːmas/

### Noun

pyjamas c
* pajamas, pyjamas
    sova i pyjamassleep in pajamas

#### Derived terms

* pyjamaspapper
* pyjamasparty
* pyjamasrandig

#### See also

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

### References

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

## Welsh
### Alternative forms

* pajamas

### Etymology

Borrowed from English pyjamas.

### Pronunciation

* (North Wales) IPA: /pəˈd͡ʒamas/
* (South Wales) IPA: /pəˈd͡ʒamaz/

### Noun

pyjamas pl (no singulative)
* pyjamas

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.