jasemin

Albanian

Alternative forms

• jesemin, jasemi, jasmin, asemin — dialectal

Etymology

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Middle Persian yʾsmn'

Classical Persian یَاسَمِین (yāsamīn)bor.

Ottoman Turkish یاسمینbor.

Albanian jasemin

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یاسمین (yasemin). The form jasemi was loaned through Greek γιασεμί (giasemí).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jaseˈmin/
• Rhymes: -in

Noun

jasemin m (plural jaseminë)

1. jasmine

References

• “jasemín,~i”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 738b
• Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “jasemin”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 226
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “jasemin”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 168b
• Meyer, G. (1891) “jasemī́”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 161