denim

See also: Denim and dénim

English

denim jeans

Etymology

From the French phrase de Nîmes (“from Nîmes”), after the French town of Nîmes, where denim fabric was originally produced.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛnɪm/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛnəm/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (UK):

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Noun

denim (countable and uncountable, plural denims)

1. A textile often made of cotton with a distinct diagonal pattern.
   • 1889, William Eleroy Curtis, “The Commerce of Mexico”, in Trade and Transportation Between the United States and Spanish America, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, part first (Trade), chapter section “The cotton trade”, page 31:

     The Mexican people want a cheaper grade of drillings, sheetings, denims, and other fabrics than are called for in our domestic markets, and purchase them in England because they can not be bought in the United States.

   • 1938, Omnibook, page 465:

     Fabrics: Gamine fabrics are informal as possible. For sports: tweeds, flannels, suedes, cottons, and denims;

   • 1946, United States Tariff Commission, Dyes: Prepared in Response to Requests from the Committee on Finance of the United States Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives (War Changes in Industry Series; Report No. 19), Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, page 25:

     Indigo, a typical member of this group of dyes, is widely used on denims and other fabrics for work clothes because of its very low cost and excellent fastness to washing.

Derived terms

• bedenimed
• bull denim
• denimed
• denimlike
• denimwear
• denimy
• double denim

 

Related terms

• jeans

Descendants

• → Danish: denim
• → Dutch: denim
• → Finnish: denimi
• → Irish: deinim
• → Japanese: デニム (denimu)
• → Korean: 데님 (denim)

Translations

textile with diagonal pattern

• Arabic: جِينْز m (jīnz), دِينِم m (dīnim)
• Armenian: ջինս (hy) (ǰins)
• Azerbaijani: cins materialı, cins material, cins (az)
• Bulgarian: дени́м m (dením)
• Catalan: denim m, teixit texà m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 牛仔布 (ngau⁴ zai² bou³)

  Mandarin: 牛仔布 (niúzǎibù), 丹寧布 / 丹宁布 (dānníngbù)

• Czech: džínsovina (cs) f, džínovina (cs) f
• Dutch: denim (nl) n, spijkerstof (nl) n
• Esperanto: ĝinzoŝtofo, denimo
• Estonian: teksariie, teksasriie
• Finnish: denimi, farkkukangas (fi)
• French: denim (fr) m
• German: Denim m or n, Baumwolldrillich m, Jeansgewebe n, Jeansstoff m, Kattun m, Jeans-
• Greek: τζην n (tzin)
• Icelandic: dením n
• Irish: deinim f, géin f
• Japanese: デニム (denimu)
• Korean: 데님 (denim)
• Luxembourgish: Jeans (lb) f
• Macedonian: тексас m (teksas)
• Maori: tāngari, tenimi
• Norman: dgêne m
• Persian: جین (fa) (jin)
• Polish: dżins (pl) m, jeans (pl) m, teksas (pl) m, denim (pl) m
• Portuguese: jeans m, ganga (pt)
• Russian: дени́м (ru) m (dɛním), джи́нсовая ткань f (džínsovaja tkanʹ), джинс (ru) m (džins)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: те̏ксас m

  Latin: tȅksas (sh) m

• Spanish: mezclilla (es) f, tela tejana
• Swedish: jeans (sv), denim (sv)
• Tagalog: maong
• Turkish: denim (tr), kot (tr), blucin (tr)

Anagrams

• EDMIn, Indem., menid, minde, mined

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English denim.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdeː.nɪm/, /ˈdɛ.nɪm/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: de‧nim

Noun

denim n (uncountable)

1. denim

Synonyms

• spijkerstof

French

Etymology

From serge de Nîmes (“serge from Nîmes”), after the French town of Nîmes, where denim fabric was originally produced.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /də.nim/

• Audio:

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Noun

denim m (plural denims)

1. denim

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʲeːnʲimʲ/

Verb

·denim

1. Alternative spelling of ·dénim

Mutation

Mutation of denim

radical	lenition	nasalization
·denim	·denim pronounced with /-ð(ʲ)-/	·ndenim

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

Spanish

Noun

denim m (uncountable)

1. denim

Turkish

Etymology

From English denim.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: de‧nim

Noun

denim (definite accusative denimi, plural denimler)

1. denim

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	denim
Definite accusative	denimi
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	denim	denimler
Definite accusative	denimi	denimleri
Dative	denime	denimlere
Locative	denimde	denimlerde
Ablative	denimden	denimlerden
Genitive	denimin	denimlerin
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular denimim denimlerim 2nd singular denimin denimlerin 3rd singular denimi denimleri 1st plural denimimiz denimlerimiz 2nd plural deniminiz denimleriniz 3rd plural denimleri denimleri Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular denimimi denimlerimi 2nd singular denimini denimlerini 3rd singular denimini denimlerini 1st plural denimimizi denimlerimizi 2nd plural deniminizi denimlerinizi 3rd plural denimlerini denimlerini Dative Singular Plural 1st singular denimime denimlerime 2nd singular denimine denimlerine 3rd singular denimine denimlerine 1st plural denimimize denimlerimize 2nd plural deniminize denimlerinize 3rd plural denimlerine denimlerine Locative Singular Plural 1st singular denimimde denimlerimde 2nd singular deniminde denimlerinde 3rd singular deniminde denimlerinde 1st plural denimimizde denimlerimizde 2nd plural deniminizde denimlerinizde 3rd plural denimlerinde denimlerinde Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular denimimden denimlerimden 2nd singular deniminden denimlerinden 3rd singular deniminden denimlerinden 1st plural denimimizden denimlerimizden 2nd plural deniminizden denimlerinizden 3rd plural denimlerinden denimlerinden Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular denimimin denimlerimin 2nd singular deniminin denimlerinin 3rd singular deniminin denimlerinin 1st plural denimimizin denimlerimizin 2nd plural deniminizin denimlerinizin 3rd plural denimlerinin denimlerinin

References

• “denim”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu