Jasmine
proper nouncommon in dialogue
A female given name from Persian.
proper noun
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A female given name from Persian.
Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas spoke out against the order on Thursday, saying in an X post, “First Trump removes any reference of diversity from the present — now he’s trying to remove it from our history. Let me be PERFECTLY clear— you cannot erase our past and you cannot stop us from fulfilling our future.”
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A surname from Persian.
Etymology
From French jasmin, from Arabic يَاسَمِين (yāsamīn), from Classical Persian یاسمین (yāsamīn), from earlier یاسمن (yāsaman), from Middle Persian yʾsmn' (yāsaman).
Forms
- plural
- Jasmines