یاسمن
Persian
Alternative forms
- یاسمین (yâsamîn)
Etymology
Etymology tree
Middle Persian yʾsmn'
Persian یاسمن
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): /jaː.sa.ˈman/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [jɑː.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)
- 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)
- Moroccan Arabic: ياسمين (yāsmīn)
- → Catalan: gessamí, llessamí
- → French: jasmin
- → Galician: xasmín
- →⇒ Italian: gelsomino
- → Portuguese: jasmim
- → Spanish: jazmín
- → German: Jasmin
- → Sicilian: gesiminu, giasiminu, gesuminu, gessuminu, gersuminu, gelsiminu, gelsuminu
- → Swahili: asumini
- → Armenian: յասաման (yasaman)
- → Azerbaijani: yasəmən
- → Georgian: იასამანი (iasamani)
- → Ottoman Turkish: یاسمین (yasemin), یاسمن (yasemen), یاسمون (yasemun), یاسم (yasem), եասէմի (yasemi)
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