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Certain: The standard etymology in the RAE dictionary and in Corriente; no serious doubt.Plants & animals · Everyday

jazmín

jasminearbusto de flores blancas muy perfumadas

Comes from Arabic

يَاسَمِين

yāsamīn

“the jasmine”«el jazmín»

Arabic today says

يَاسَمِين

yāsamīn

And it still does

The article

It came in without the article.

Arabic itself had taken it from Persian.

The story

From Persian yāsaman. The Arabic initial y became j in Spanish. Damascus prides itself on being the "city of jasmine".Del persa yāsaman. La y inicial árabe se hizo j en castellano. Damasco presume de ser la «ciudad del jazmín».

In a sentence

El patio huele a jazmín.

The courtyard smells of jasmine.

رَائِحَةُ اليَاسَمِينِ تَمْلَأُ الفِنَاء.

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