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]

• (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

Dari	یاسمن
Iranian Persian
Tajik	ёсуман

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

1. 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)

1. 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