Pajamas

A Muslim girl in India wearing pajamas and kurti (lithograph from Emily Eden's Portraits of the Princes and People of India, 1844)
Two-piece men's pajamas

Pajamas (or pyjamas in Commonwealth English, (/pəˈɑːməz, pɪ-, -ˈæ-/ pə-JAH-məz, pih-, -⁠JAM-əz)) are several related types of clothing worn as nightwear or while lounging. Pajamas are soft garments derived from the South-Asian Muslim and Iranian bottom-wear, the pyjamas, which were adopted in the Western world as nightwear.

The garments are sometimes colloquially referred to as PJs,[1] jammies,[2] jim-jams or in South Asia, night suits.

  1. ^ "PJs". Dictionary.com.
  2. ^ "Jammies". Dictionary.com.