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 Definitions of Pidgin  [ˈpɪdʒ ən]  

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Definition of 'Pidgin' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) pidgin
an auxiliary language that has developed from the need of speakers of two different languages to communicate and is primarily a simplified form of one of the languages, with a reduced vocabulary and grammatical structure.

2.  pidgin
(loosely) any simplified form of a language, esp. when used for communication between speakers of different languages.

Etymology:  (1875–80; extracted from pidginEnglish)

Definition of 'Pidgin' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) pidgin
an artificial language used for trade between speakers of different languages


Translation of 'Pidgin' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: any of a number of languages which consist of a mixture of English, French, Portuguese etc and some non-European (especially African) language
Beach-la-mar is a pidgin spoken in parts of the southern Pacific Ocean; (

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: pidgin Arabic flag Arabic: لُغَةٌ خَليطَه Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: местен език на базата на
Brazilian flag Brazilian: língua de contato Czech flag Czech: pidžin (směs dvou jazyků) German flag German: das Pidgin, Pidgin-...
Danish flag Danish: pidgin; pidgin- Greek flag Greek: γλώσσα πίτζιν Spanish flag Spanish: lengua franca
Estonian flag Estonian: pidþin Farsi flag Farsi: زبان آمیخته Finnish flag Finnish: pidginkieli
French flag French: pidgin Hebrew flag Hebrew: זַ'רגוֹן Hindi flag Hindi: मिश्रित भाषा
Croatian flag Croatian: kontaktno narječje, vrlo Hungarian flag Hungarian: (keverék angolnyelv) Indonesian flag Indonesian: pidgin
Icelandic flag Icelandic: blendingsmál Italian flag Italian: pidgin Japanese flag Japanese: ピジン英語
Korean flag Korean: 혼성어 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: maišyta (kalba) Latvian flag Latvian: pidžinvaloda, jaukta saru
Malay flag Malay: pijin Dutch flag Dutch: mengtaal, pidgin Norwegian flag Norwegian: blandingsspråk
Polish flag Polish: pidżin, język mieszany Persian flag Persian: زبان آمیخته Pashto flag Pashto: ګډوډه ژبه
Portuguese flag Portuguese: língua franca Romanian flag Romanian: pidgin, limbă mixtă folos Russian flag Russian: гибридный язык
Slovak flag Slovak: miešaná angličtina, láman Slovenian flag Slovenian: latovščina; latovski Serbian flag Serbian: mešavina jezika
Swedish flag Swedish: pidginengelska Thai flag Thai: ภาษาผสม Turkish flag Turkish: karma/melez dil
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 混雜語言(併用兩種或多種語言的),洋涇濱語 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: гібридна мова Urdu flag Urdu: ملي جلي زبان
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: tiếng bồi Chinese flag Chinese: 混杂语言

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