denim

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈdɛnɪm/
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• Canada, General-American: /ˈdɛnəm/
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From the French phrase de Nîmes (“from Nîmes”), after the French town of Nîmes, where denim fabric was originally produced.

62 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: جِينْز (jīnz) — textile with diagonal pattern
• Arabic: دِينِم (dīnim) — textile with diagonal pattern
• Armenian: ջինս (ǰins) — textile with diagonal pattern
• Azerbaijani: cins materialı — textile with diagonal pattern
• Azerbaijani: cins material — textile with diagonal pattern
• Azerbaijani: cins — textile with diagonal pattern
• Bulgarian: дени́м (dením) — textile with diagonal pattern
• Catalan: denim — textile with diagonal pattern
• Catalan: teixit texà — textile with diagonal pattern
• Chinese Cantonese: 牛仔布 (ngau4 zai2 bou3) — textile with diagonal pattern
• Chinese Mandarin: 牛仔布 (niúzǎibù) — textile with diagonal pattern
• Chinese Mandarin: 丹寧布 /丹宁布 (dānníngbù) — textile with diagonal pattern
• Chinese Mandarin: 丹寧 /丹宁 (dānníng) — textile with diagonal pattern
• Czech: džínsovina — textile with diagonal pattern
• Czech: džínovina — textile with diagonal pattern
• Dutch: denim — textile with diagonal pattern
• Dutch: spijkerstof — textile with diagonal pattern
• Esperanto: ĝinzoŝtofo — textile with diagonal pattern
• Esperanto: denimo — textile with diagonal pattern
• Estonian: teksariie — textile with diagonal pattern
• Estonian: teksasriie — textile with diagonal pattern
• Finnish: denimi — textile with diagonal pattern
• Finnish: farkkukangas — textile with diagonal pattern
• French: denim — textile with diagonal pattern
• German: Denim — textile with diagonal pattern
• German: Baumwolldrillich — textile with diagonal pattern
• German: Jeansgewebe — textile with diagonal pattern
• German: Jeansstoff — textile with diagonal pattern
• German: Kattun — textile with diagonal pattern
• German: Jeans- — textile with diagonal pattern
• Greek: τζην (tzin) — textile with diagonal pattern
• Icelandic: dením — textile with diagonal pattern
• Irish: deinim — textile with diagonal pattern
• Irish: géin — textile with diagonal pattern
• Japanese: デニム (denimu) — textile with diagonal pattern
• Korean: 데님 (denim) — textile with diagonal pattern
• Luxembourgish: Jeans — textile with diagonal pattern
• Macedonian: тексас (teksas) — textile with diagonal pattern
• Māori: tāngari — textile with diagonal pattern
• Māori: tenimi — textile with diagonal pattern
• Norman: dgêne — textile with diagonal pattern
• Persian: جین (jin) — textile with diagonal pattern
• Polish: dżins — textile with diagonal pattern
• Polish: jeans — textile with diagonal pattern
• Polish: teksas — textile with diagonal pattern
• Polish: denim — textile with diagonal pattern
• Portuguese: jeans — textile with diagonal pattern
• Portuguese: ganga — textile with diagonal pattern
• Portuguese: brim — textile with diagonal pattern
• Russian: дени́м (dɛním) — textile with diagonal pattern
• Russian: джи́нсовая ткань (džínsovaja tkanʹ) — textile with diagonal pattern
• Russian: джинс (džins) — textile with diagonal pattern
• Serbo-Croatian: те̏ксас — textile with diagonal pattern
• Serbo-Croatian: tȅksas — textile with diagonal pattern
• Spanish: mezclilla — textile with diagonal pattern
• Spanish: tela tejana — textile with diagonal pattern
• Swedish: jeans — textile with diagonal pattern
• Swedish: denim — textile with diagonal pattern
• Tagalog: maong — textile with diagonal pattern
• Turkish: denim — textile with diagonal pattern
• Turkish: kot — textile with diagonal pattern
• Turkish: blucin — textile with diagonal pattern