یاسمن

Persian

Alternative forms

یاسمین (yâsamîn)

Etymology

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (yʾsmn' /⁠yāsaman⁠/, “jasmine”). Akin to Sogdian 𐫝𐫀𐫢𐫖𐫗 (cʾšmn /⁠jāsmin⁠/) and the Iranian borrowings: Classical Syriac ܝܣܡܐ (yasmā), Jewish Babylonian Aramaic יסמין (/⁠ysmyn⁠/), Byzantine Greek ἰάσμη (iásmē), Old Armenian յասմիկ (yasmik).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [jɑː.sa.ˈman]

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [jɑː.sä.mǽn]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [jɑː.sä.mǽn]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [jɔː.sä.mǽn]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [jɒː.sæ.mǽn]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [jɔ.su.mǽn]

Readings
Classical reading^?	yāsaman
Dari reading^?	yāsaman
Iranian reading^?	yâsaman
Tajik reading^?	yosuman

Noun


Iranian Persian	یاسمن
Dari	یاسمن
Tajik	ёсуман

یاسمن • (yâsaman) (plural یاسمن‌ها (yâsaman-hâ))

jasmine flower

Derived terms

یاس (yâs, “jasmine”), a contraction of the present word

Descendants

→ Arabic: يَاسَمِين (yāsamīn)
- Gulf Arabic: ياسمين (yāsmīn)
- Hijazi Arabic: ياسمين (yāsmīn, yāsamīn)
- → Catalan: gessamí, llessamí
- → French: jasmin
  - → Danish: jasmin
  - → English: jasmine
- → Galician: xasmín
- → Portuguese: jasmim
- → Spanish: jazmín
  - → German: Jasmin
- → Swahili: asumini
→ Armenian: յասաման (yasaman)
→ Azerbaijani: yasəmən
→ Georgian: იასამანი (iasamani)
→ Ottoman Turkish: یاسمین (yasemin), یاسمن (yasemen), یاسمون (yasemun), یاسم (yasem), եասէմի (yasemi)
- Turkish: yasemin, (dialectal) yesmin
- → Albanian: jasemin
- → Armenian: եասէմի (easēmi)
- → Aromanian: easamin
- → Bulgarian: ясмин (jasmin)
- → Greek: γιασεμί (giasemí)
  - → Albanian: jasemi
  - → Aromanian: easamiu
  - → Romanian: iasomie
- → Ladino: yasemin
- → Macedonian: јасмин (jasmin)
- → Serbo-Croatian: jàsmīn／ја̀смӣн

Proper noun

یاسمن • (yâsaman)

a female given name

References

MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “yʾsmn'”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 97
Gharib, B. (1995) “c’smn”, in Sogdian dictionary: Sogdian–Persian–English, Tehran: Farhangan Publications, page 124

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