یاسمین

See also: ياسمين

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• یاسمن (yasemen), یاسمون (yasemun), یاسم (yasem), եասէմի (yasemi)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Middle Persian yʾsmn'

Classical Persian یَاسَمِین (yāsamīn)bor.

Ottoman Turkish یاسمین

Borrowed from Classical Persian یَاسَمِین (yāsamīn).

Noun

یاسمین • (yasemin)

1. jasmine (Jasminum officinale)

Descendants

• 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

References

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “yasemin”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5235b
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “یاسم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2186a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “یاسم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1339a
• Seydi, Ali (1912), “ياٰسَمْ”, in رسملی قاموس عثمانی [resimli kamus-ı ʼosmani]‎^[3] (in Ottoman Turkish), page 1107ab

Persian

Etymology

Variant of یاسمن (yâsaman, “jasmine”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /jaː.sa.ˈmiːn/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [jɑː.sä.miːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [jɑː.sä.miːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [jɑː.sä.miːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [jɔː.sä.min]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [jɒːs.miːn], [jɒː.sæ.miːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [jɔ.sä.min]

• Rhymes: -iːn

Readings
Classical reading?	yāsamīn
Dari reading?	yāsamīn
Iranian reading?	yâsmin, yâsamin
Tajik reading?	yosamin

Proper noun

یاسمین • (yāsamīn / yâsmin or  / yâsamin) (Tajik spelling Ёсамин)

1. a female given name, Yasameen, Yasmeen, and Yasmin, from Persian, equivalent to English Jasmine

Noun

یاسمین • (yāsamīn / yâsmin, yâsamin) (Tajik spelling ёсамин)

1. alternative form of یاسمن (yâsaman, “jasmine”)

Urdu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Middle Persian yʾsmn'

Classical Persian یَاسَمِین (yāsamīn)bor.

Urdu یاسمین

Borrowed from Classical Persian یَاسَمِین (yāsamīn).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /jɑː.sə.miːn/
• (common) IPA^(key): [jɑːs.miːn]
• Rhymes: -iːn
• Hyphenation: یاس‧مِین

Proper noun

یاسْمِین • (yāsmīn) f (Hindi spelling यासमीन)

1. a female given name, Yasameen and Yasmeen, from Persian, equivalent to English Jasmine

Noun

یاسَمِین or یاسْمِین • (yāsamīn or yasmīn) f (Hindi spelling यासमीन)

1. synonym of چَن٘بیلی (cambelī, “jasmine”)

Declension

Declension of یاسمین

	singular	plural
direct	یاسْمِین (yasmīn)	یاسْمِینیں (yasmīnẽ)
oblique	یاسْمِین (yasmīn)	یاسْمِینوں (yasmīnõ)
vocative	یاسْمِین (yasmīn)	یاسْمِینو (yasmīno)

Derived terms

• یاسمین بو (yasmīn bū, “jasminelike (scent)”)
• یاسمینی (yasamīnī, “jasminelike”)

Further reading

• “یاسمین”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “یاسمین”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “ياسمين”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.