pyjama

• (attributive form of pyjamas): pajama

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pyjama

1. (British) Attributive form of pyjamas.
   • 2009 February 12, Derick Chetty, “Proper attire for the bedroom”, in Toronto Star‎^[1]:

     They […] have joined the pyjama parade, proposing sleepwear as outerwear as the new way to dress up for an evening of entertaining at home or on the town.

Borrowed from English pyjamas, with spelling pronunciation, from pai jamahs (“loose trousers tied at the waist, worn by Muslims in India”), adopted by colonials, especially for nightwear, probably from Hindi पैजामा (paijāmā, “pajama”), itself from Persian پایجامه.

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• IPA^(key): /piˈjaːmaː/
• Hyphenation: py‧ja‧ma

pyjama m (plural pyjama's, diminutive pyjamaatje n)

1. pyjamas, a matching set of light material trousers and vest for wearing to bed and sleeping in

• → Indonesian: piyama

• nachtkledij
• nachtkleed
• slaapmuts

From English pyjamas.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpyjɑmɑ/, [ˈpyjɑ̝mɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -yjɑmɑ
• Syllabification^(key): py‧ja‧ma
• Hyphenation^(key): py‧ja‧ma

pyjama

1. pajamas, pyjamas

• yöasu, yöpuku

• “pyjama”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

English pyjama, from Urdu پایجامه (pāyjāma) / Hindi पैजामा (paijāmā), from Persian پایجامه (pâyjâma) / پاجامه (pâjâma, “leg garment”).

• IPA^(key): /pi.ʒa.ma/

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pyjama m (plural pyjamas)

1. pyjamas

• soirée pyjama

• → Romanian: pijama
• → Turkish: pijama

• “pyjama”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.