یاسمن
Appearance
Persian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- یاسمین (yâsamîn)
Etymology
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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
[edit]- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [jɑː.sa.ˈman]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [jɒː.sæ.mǽn]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [jɔ.su.mǽn]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | yāsaman |
Dari reading? | yāsaman |
Iranian reading? | yâsaman |
Tajik reading? | yosuman |
Noun
[edit]Dari | یاسمن |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | ёсуман |
یاسمن • (yâsaman) (plural یاسمنها (yâsaman-hâ))
- jasmine flower
Derived terms
[edit]- یاس (yâs, “jasmine”), a contraction of the present word
Descendants
[edit]- → 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
[edit]یاسمن • (yâsaman)
- a female given name
References
[edit]- 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