یاسمین

See also: ياسمين

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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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], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1339a
• Seydi, Ali (1912) “ياٰسَمْ”, in رسملی قاموس عثمانی [resimli kamus-ı ʼosmani]‎^[3] (in Ottoman Turkish), page 1107ab

Persian

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Middle Persian yʾsmn'

Persian یاسمین

Variant of یاسمن (yâsaman, “jasmine”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [jɑː.sa.miːn]

 

• (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]

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

Proper noun

Dari	یاسَمِین
Iranian Persian	یاسْمین
Tajik	Ёсамин

یاسمین • (yâsmin or yāsamīn)

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

Noun

یاسمین • (yâsmin or yāsamīn)

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

Urdu

Etymology

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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 or Yasmeen, from Persian, equivalent to English Jasmine.

Noun

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

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, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ياسمين”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.