different between nightdress vs pyjamas

English

Etymology

From night +? dress

Noun

nightdress (plural nightdresses)

1. A nightgown; female attire designed to be worn to bed.

   She was too modest to come downstairs dressed only in her nightdress.

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??d????m?z/, (archaic) /pa??d????m?z/

Noun

pyjamas pl (plural only)

1. Britain 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. Britain 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.

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English pyjamas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pyja?mas/, [p?y?jæ?mas]

Noun

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

1. pajamas, pyjamas

Inflection

Further reading

• pyjamas on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

French

Noun

pyjamas m

1. plural of pyjama

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English pyjamas.

Noun

pyjamas m pl

1. pyjamas

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [p?????m?s]

Noun

pyjamas

1. pyjamas

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English. See there for more.

Noun

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

1. pajamas

References

• “pyjamas” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Noun

pyjamas c

1. pyjamas

Declension

Related terms

• pyjamaspapper
• pyjamasrandig

Welsh

Alternative forms

• pajamas

Etymology

Borrowed from English pyjamas.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /p??d??amas/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /p??d??amaz/

Noun

pyjamas m pl

1. pyjamas

Mutation