jasmine

See also: Jasmine

English

Alternative forms

• jessamine

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

The winter jasmine ()

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French jasmin, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic يَاسَمِين (yāsamīn), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Persian یاسمین (yâsamin), یاسمن (yâsaman), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Persian yʾsmn' (yāsaman).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʒæzmɪn/

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 unrelated plants having a similar perfume.
4. A yellow colour.

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Derived terms

• Arabian jasmine (Jasminum sambac)
• bastard jasmine ()
• blue jasmine ()
• Cape jasmine (Gardenia jasminoides)
• Carolina jasmine (Gelsemium sempervirens)
• Catalan jasmine/Catalonian jasmine (Jasminum grandiflorum)
• cayenne jasmine (Catharanthus roseus,
• Chilean jasmine ()
• climbing jasmine ()
• common jasmine (Jasminum officinale}
• confederate jasmine ( spp.)
• crepe jasmine/crape jasmine (
• day jasmine ()
• ground jasmine ()
• Italian jasmine ()
• Japanese star jasmine ()
• Jasmine
• jasmine rice
• jasmine tea
• Madagascar jasmine ()
• night jasmine ()
• night-blooming jasmine ()
• night-flowering jasmine ()
• orange jasmine (, Murraya paniculata)
• poet's jasmine (Jasminum grandiflorum)
• primrose jasmine ()
• red jasmine ()
• rock jasmine (Androsace spp.)
• royal jasmine (Jasminum grandiflorum)
• sambac jasmine (Jasminum sambac)
• Spanish jasmine (Jasminum grandiflorum)
• star jasmine ()
• tree jasmine
• true jasmine (Jasminum officinale}
• Tuscan jasmine (Jasminum sambac)
• West Indian jasmine ()
• white jasmine
• willow-leaved jasmine ()
• winter jasmine ()

Translations

plant of genus Jasminum

• Arabic: يَسْمِين m (yasmīn)
• Armenian: հասմիկ (hy) (hasmik)
• Azerbaijani: jasmin (az)
• Burmese: စံပယ် (my) (campai)
• Catalan: gessamí m
• Chinese:

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

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

• 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)
• Gujarati: જાસ્મીન (jāsmīn)
• 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 (まつり, matsuri), ジャスミン (ja) (jasumin), (the flower specifically) 茉莉花 (ja) (まつりか, matsurika)
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• Kannada: ಮಲ್ಲಿಗೆ (kn) (mallige)
• Kazakh: ақжұпар (aqjūpar), жасаман (jasaman)
• Khmer: ផ្កាម្លិះ (pkaa mlᵻh)
• Korean: 재스민 (jaeseumin), 말리 (ko) (malli) (茉莉), 말리화 (mallihwa) (茉莉花)
• Maori: akakaikiore, akakiore, kaihua, tōtorowene
• 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)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: јасмин m

  Roman: jasmin (sh) m

• Sindhi: جوسمين
• Spanish: jazmín (es) f
• Swahili: asumini
• Tagalog: sampaga, hasmin
• Tajik: ёсуман (yosuman)
• Thai: มะลิ (th) (má-lí)
• Tibetan: བ་སྤུའི་མེ་ཏིག (ba spu'i me tig)
• Turkish: yasemin (tr)
• Ukrainian: жасми́н m (žasmýn)
• Urdu: چمیلی f (camelī), چنبیلی (ur) f (cambelī)
• 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
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• Japanese: ジャスミン (ja) (jasumin)
• Portuguese: jasmim (pt) m
• Romanian: jasmin m, iasomie (ro) f

plant with similar perfume

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colour

• Finnish: jasmiini (fi)
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• 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

• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} يَسْمِين m (yasmīn)
• Bengali: ^{(please verify)} জুঁই (jũi), ^{(please verify)} বেল (bn) (bel), ^{(please verify)} মালতী (maloti)
• Finnish: jasmiini (fi)
• German: ^{(please verify)} Jasmin (de) m
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} bunga melati

  Acehnese: meulu cut, meulu cina

  Balinese: meluh

  Banda: ^{(please verify)} menyuru

  Bima and Sumbawa: ^{(please verify)} mundu

  Javanese: melur

  Madurese: malete

  Manadonese/Minahasan: ^{(please verify)} manduru

• Marathi: ^{(please verify)} चमेली f (camelī)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Persian: ^{(please verify)} یاسمن (fa) (yāsamen), ^{(please verify)} یاس (fa) (yās), ^{(please verify)} یاسمون (yāsamūn), ^{(please verify)} یاسمین (fa) (yāsamīn)
• 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
• 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

• jamisen