Pidgin

//ˈpɪ.d͡ʒən//

Synonyms for "pidgin" (6 found)

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Closest matches (2)

Noun(1 words)

baragouin

cant

Strong matches (1)

dialect

Related words (3)

jargon lingo talkee talkee

Related word relations

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9 relation types

More general

1 entries

artificial language

Related terms

2 entries

creole pidgin English

dbpedia genre

1 entries

instant messaging

derived

17 entries

Chinese pidgin English Melanesian Pidgin English NSW Pidgin English New South Wales Pidgin English Pijin Port Jackson Pidgin Queensland Pidgin English Tok Pisin West African Pidgin Portuguese expanded pidgin pidginisation pidginise pidginist pidginization pidginize pidginogenic

Showing 16 of 17 words.

etymologically derived_from

1 entries

business

etymologically related_to

2 entries

beach pidgin english

has context

1 entries

linguistics

is a

2 entries

artificial language software

related to

14 entries

amalgamation creole disparate formalize grammar language lingua franca pidgin english pigeon pijin population tok pisin utilitarian vocabulary

Translations

42 translations across 28 languages.

Armenian

1 entries

փիջին noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)

Bislama

1 entries

pijin noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)

Bulgarian

1 entries

пи́джин noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)

Catalan

1 entries

pidgin noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries

混雜語言 /混杂语言 noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)
皮欽語 /皮钦语 noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)

Danish

2 entries

pidgin noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)
pidginsprog noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)

Esperanto

1 entries

piĝino noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)

French

3 entries

créole noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)
langue véhiculaire noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)
pidgin noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)

German

3 entries

Pidgin noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)
Pidgin-Sprache noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)
Pidginsprache noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)

Irish

1 entries

nasctheanga noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)

Italian

1 entries

pidgin noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)

Japanese

1 entries

ピジン言語 noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)

Low German

3 entries

Pidgin noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)
Pidgin-Spraak noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)
Pidginspraak noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)

Macedonian

1 entries

пиџин noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)

Māori

2 entries

kōrapurapu noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)
reo kōrapurapu noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries

pidgin noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)
pidginspråk noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)

Norwegian Nynorsk

2 entries

pidgin noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)
pidginspråk noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)

Pijin

1 entries

pijin noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)

Polish

3 entries

pidgin noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)
pidżin noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)
pidżyn noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)

Portuguese

1 entries

pidgin noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)

Russian

1 entries

пи́джин noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)

Spanish

1 entries

pidgin noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)

Swahili

1 entries

pijini noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)

Swedish

2 entries

pidgin noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)
pidginspråk noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)

Tamil

1 entries

பிட்யின் noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)

Tok Pisin

1 entries

pisin noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)

Turkish

1 entries

tarzanca noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)

Welsh

1 entries

pijin noun (amalgamation of two languages having no native speakers)

Sample sentences

13 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The pidgin has no native speakers.

Source: tatoeba (841114)

Shanghainese is actually a kind of pidgin, based on Wu dialects, Lower Yangtze Mandarin, and English loanwords.

Source: tatoeba (942192)

Children don't grow up speaking pidgin languages; they turn them into real languages: creoles.

Source: tatoeba (2028110)

In some cases, pidgin became a first language.

Source: tatoeba (2265315)

Showing 4 of 13 available sentences.

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.