Frompidgin English, from aChinese Pidgin English pronunciation ofEnglishbusiness during trade in theFar East. All attestations ofpidgin from the first half of the nineteenth century given in the third edition of the Oxford English Dictionary mean “business; an action, occupation, or affair” (the earliest being from 1807). Other suggested derivations include:
pidgin (countable anduncountable,pluralpidgins)
- (linguistics) Anamalgamation of twodisparatelanguages, used by twopopulations having no common language as alingua franca to communicate with each other, lackingformalizedgrammar and having a small,utilitarianvocabulary and no native speakers.
- Synonym:baragouin
- (archaic, idiomatic) A person's business, occupation, work, or trade (also spelt aspigeon).
1950, Robert A. Heinlein,The Man Who Sold the Moon:Forget money. That's mypidgin.
2015, Guy Cullingford,Post Mortem:It's up to the detective sergeant to ask his own questions, that's not mypidgin. But I did wonder if either of you gentlemen had an idea of the exact time of the shot.
- Some pidgins that have developed intocreoles nevertheless (confusingly) retain the word "pidgin" in their names.
amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers
- Armenian:փիջին(pʻiǰin)
- Bislama:pijin
- Catalan:pidgin m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:皮欽語 /皮钦语 (zh)(píqīnyǔ),混雜語言 /混杂语言(hùnzá yǔyán)
- Danish:pidgin (da) n,pidginsprog n
- Esperanto:piĝino
- French:pidgin (fr) m,créole (fr) m,langue véhiculaire (fr) f
- German:Pidgin (de) n,Pidginsprache (de) f,Pidgin-Sprache (de) f
- Irish:nasctheanga f
- Italian:pidgin (it)
- Japanese:ピジン言語(pijin gengo)
- Low German:
- German Low German:Pidgin n,Pidginspraak f,Pidgin-Spraak f
- Macedonian:пиџин m(pidžin)
- Maori:kōrapurapu,reo kōrapurapu
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:pidgin m orn,pidginspråk n
- Nynorsk:pidgin m,pidginspråk n
- Pijin:pijin
- Polish:pidgin (pl) m,pidżin m,pidżyn (pl) m
- Portuguese:pidgin (pt) m
- Russian:пи́джин (ru) m(pídžin)
- Spanish:pidgin (es) m
- Swahili:pijini
- Swedish:pidgin c,pidginspråk (sv) n
- Tok Pisin:pisin (tpi)
- Turkish:tarzanca,(informal neologism; "the fictional character tarzan")
- Welsh:pijin m
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- ↑1.01.11.21.3John Holmes,An introduction to pidgins and creoles, Cambridge University Press (2000)
Borrowed fromEnglishpidgin, fromChinese Pidgin Englishpidgin, fromEnglishbusiness.
pidgin m (pluralpidgins)
- pidgin
Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishpidgin, frompidgin English, from aChinese Pidgin English pronunciation ofEnglishbusiness during trade in theFar East.
pidgin m inan
- (linguistics)Alternative spelling ofpidżyn
- pidgin in Polish dictionaries at PWN
pidgin m (pluralpidgins)
- (linguistics)pidgin(amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)
- IPA(key): /ˈpidxin/[ˈpið̞.xĩn]
- Rhymes:-idxin
- Syllabification:pid‧gin
pidgin m (pluralpidginsorpidgin)
- (linguistics)pidgin(amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)
