jasemin

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

    Etymology tree
    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 [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1], 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 [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 161
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