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[Facts] Need more info on my name
Is there any more info on the name Yasmin? All the info I recieved from your site was that my name is Persian for Jasmine. Is there anything else you can tell me about it?
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My understanding has always been that the name Yasmine is the Arabic variation of the Persian Jasmine
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Indeed, the name Yasmin means Jasmine/Jessamine, and is adopted from Persian ("yasmine"). Jasmine is cultivated for its beauty and fragrance, while some species yield an oil used in perfumery.
Dioscorides (40-90 CE), a Greek physician under the wonderful Roman Emperor Nero , describes jasmine's medicinal/botanical properties in *De Materia Medica*. The hellenized terms he uses are "Iasme" and "Iasmelaion" (Jasmine oil).
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