jasmine

See also: Jasmine

English

A 19th-century watercolour of the wild jasmine (Jasminum laurifolium) from the William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings, National Museum of Singapore

The winter jasmine (Jasminum nudiflorum)

Alternative forms

• jassamine, jessamine

Etymology

Borrowed from French jasmin, from Arabic يَاسَمِين (yāsamīn), from Persian یاسمین (yâsamin), یاسمن (yâsaman).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒæzmɪn/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɪn

Noun

jasmine (countable and uncountable, plural jasmines)

1. Any of several plants, of the genus Jasminum, mostly native to Asia, having fragrant white or yellow flowers.
2. The perfume obtained from these plants.
3. Any of several not closely related plants having a similar perfume.
4. A yellow colour.

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Derived terms

• Arabian jasmine (Jasminum sambac)
• bastard jasmine (Cestrum elegans)
• blue jasmine (Clematis crispa)
• Cape jasmine (Gardenia jasminoides)
• Carolina jasmine (Gelsemium sempervirens)
• Catalan jasmine/Catalonian jasmine (Jasminum grandiflorum)
• cayenne jasmine (Catharanthus roseus, Vinca rosea
• Chilean jasmine (Mandevilla laxa)
• climbing jasmine (Jasminum polyanthum)
• common jasmine (Jasminum officinale)
• confederate jasmine (Trachelospermum spp.)
• crepe jasmine/crape jasmine (Tabernaemontana divaricata
• day jasmine (Cestrum diurnum)
• double jasmine
• ground jasmine (Passerina stelleri)
• Italian jasmine (Chrysojasminum humile, syn. Jasminum humile)
• Japanese star jasmine (Trachelospermum asiaticum)
• Jasmine
• jasmine rice
• jasmine tea
• Madagascar jasmine (Stephanotis floribunda)
• night jasmine (Cestrum nocturnum)
• night-blooming jasmine (Nyctanthes arbor-tristis)
• night-flowering jasmine (Nyctanthes arbor-tristis)
• orange jasmine (Cestrum aurantiacum, Murraya paniculata)
• poet's jasmine (Jasminum grandiflorum)
• primrose jasmine (Jasminum mesnyi)
• red jasmine (Plumeria rubra)
• rock jasmine (Androsace spp.)
• royal jasmine (Jasminum grandiflorum)
• sambac jasmine (Jasminum sambac)
• Spanish jasmine (Jasminum grandiflorum)
• star jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides)
• tree jasmine
• true jasmine (Jasminum officinale)
• Tuscan jasmine (Jasminum sambac)
• West Indian jasmine (Plumeria alba)
• white jasmine
• willow-leaved jasmine (Cestrum parqui)
• winter jasmine (Jasminum nudiflorum)
• yellow jasmine

Translations

plant of genus Jasminum

• Albanian: jasemin (sq) m
• Arabic: يَاسَمِين (ar) m (yāsamīn)
• Armenian: հասմիկ (hy) (hasmik)
• Azerbaijani: jasmin (az)
• Bengali: ইয়াসমিন (bn) (iẏaśomin)
• Burmese: စံပယ် (my) (campai)
• Catalan: gessamí m
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 茉莉花 (zh-min-nan) (ba̍k-nī-hue), 茉莉 (ba̍k-nī)

  Mandarin: 茉莉花 (zh) (mòlìhuā), 茉莉 (zh) (mòlì)

• Czech: jasmín (cs) m
• Danish: jasmin c
• Dutch: jasmijn (nl)
• Esperanto: jasmeno
• Finnish: jasmiini (fi)
• French: jasmin (fr) m
• Galician: xasmín m
• Georgian: ჟასმინი (žasmini)
• German: Jasmin (de) m, Jasminum n
• Greek: γιασεμί (el) n (giasemí)

  Ancient: ἰάσμη f (iásmē)

• Gujarati: જાસ્મીન (jāsmīn), ચંબેલી f (cambelī), જૂઈ (jūī), યાસમીન n (yāsmīn)
• Hawaiian: pikake
• Hebrew: יַסְמִין (he) m (yasmín)
• Hindi: चमेली (hi) f (camelī), चंबेली f (cambelī)
• Hungarian: jázmin (hu)
• Hunsrik: Schasmin m
• Indonesian: melati (id)
• Italian: gelsomino (it) m
• Japanese: 茉莉 (ja) (まつり, matsuri), ジャスミン (ja) (jasumin), (the flower specifically) 茉莉花 (ja) (まつりか, matsurika)
• Kannada: ಮಲ್ಲಿಗೆ (kn) (mallige)
• Kazakh: ақжұпар (aqjūpar), жасаман (jasaman), ақгүл (aqgül)
• Khmer: ផ្កាម្លិះ (pkaa mlᵻh)
• Korean: 재스민 (jaeseumin), 말리(茉莉) (ko) (malli), 말리화(茉莉花) (mallihwa)
• Maori: akakaikiore, akakiore, kaihua, tōtorowene
• Naga Pidgin: jasmin phul
• Pashto: جیسمین
• Persian: یاسمن (fa) (yâsaman)
• Polish: jaśmin (pl) m
• Portuguese: jasmim (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਚੰਬੇਲੀ (cambelī), ਚਮੇਲੀ (camelī)
• Romanian: jasmin m, iasomie (ro) f
• Russian: жасми́н (ru) m (žasmín)
• Sanskrit: कुन्द (sa) m (kunda)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: јасмин m

  Roman: jasmin (sh) m

• Sindhi: جوسمين
• Spanish: jazmín (es) f
• Swahili: asumini
• Tagalog: sampaga, hasmin
• Tajik: ёсуман (yosuman)
• Telugu: మల్లె (te) (malle)
• Thai: มะลิ (th) (má-lí)
• Tibetan: བ་སྤུའི་མེ་ཏིག (ba spu'i me tig)
• Turkish: yasemin (tr)
• Ukrainian: жасми́н m (žasmýn)
• Urdu: چنبیلی (ur) f (caṉbelī), چمبیلی f (cambelī), یاسمین f (yasmīn) چمیلی f (camelī)
• Uyghur: يەسىمەن (yesimen)
• Vietnamese: lài (vi), nhài (vi)
• Western Panjabi: کلیاں

perfume

• Danish: jasmin c
• Finnish: jasmiini (fi)
• Greek: γιασεμί (el) n (giasemí)
• Italian: gelsomino (it) m
• Japanese: ジャスミン (ja) (jasumin)
• Portuguese: jasmim (pt) m
• Romanian: jasmin m, iasomie (ro) f

plant with similar perfume

colour

• Finnish: jasmiini (fi)
• Japanese: 薄黄色 (usukiiro)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Acehnese: ^{(please verify)} meulu cut, ^{(please verify)} meulu cina
• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} يَسْمِين m (yasmīn)
• Balinese: ^{(please verify)} meluh
• Banda: ^{(please verify)} menyuru
• Bengali: ^{(please verify)} জুঁই (bn) (jũi), ^{(please verify)} বেল (bn) (bel), ^{(please verify)} মালতী (maloti)
• Bima: ^{(please verify)} mundu
• German: ^{(please verify)} Jasmin (de) m
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} bunga melati
• Javanese: ^{(please verify)} melur
• Madurese: ^{(please verify)} malete
• Manado Malay: ^{(please verify)} manduru
• Marathi: ^{(please verify)} चमेली f (camelī)
• Persian: ^{(please verify)} یاسمن (fa) (yâsamen), ^{(please verify)} یاس (fa) (yâs), ^{(please verify)} یاسمون (yâsamun), ^{(please verify)} یاسمین (fa) (yâsamin)
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} jasmin (sh) m, ^{(please verify)} јасмин m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} јасмин m

  Roman: ^{(please verify)} jasmin (sh) m

• Sicilian: ^{(please verify)} girsuminu (scn) m
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} jazmín (es) m
• Sumbawa: ^{(please verify)} mundu
• Tajik: ^{(please verify)} ёсамин (yosamin), ^{(please verify)} ёсуман (yosuman)
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} మల్లె (te) (malle), ^{(please verify)} జాజి (te) (jāji)
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} yasemin (tr)
• Urdu: ^{(please verify)} یاسمین (yāsmīn), ^{(please verify)} چمیلی (camelī), ^{(please verify)} چنبیلی (ur) (cambelī)
• Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} lài (vi), ^{(please verify)} nhài (vi)

See also

• Arabian jasmine, mogra, pikake, jasmine tea (Jasminum sambac)
• chameli, jessamine, motia

References

• jasmine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Jasminum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Jasminum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Mijanès, jamisen