Yasmin
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Yasmin is a feminine given name.
for a flowering plant, and from which the name Jasmine
derives.
The pronunciation of Yasmin is often parallel with the English
Jasmine, but in Arabic
, Persian and Turkish
, the "s" is not taken as a "z", and so is often pronounced as ˈjæsmɪn.
Etymology
Yasmin is the name in PersianPersian language
Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...
for a flowering plant, and from which the name Jasmine
Jasmine (given name)
Jasmine is a feminine given name. It refers to the flowering plant jasmine. The name has been popular in a number of countries in recent years. In the United States, it first entered the top 1,000 list of most popular names in 1973...
derives.
The pronunciation of Yasmin is often parallel with the English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
Jasmine, but in Arabic
Arabic language
Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...
, Persian and Turkish
Turkish language
Turkish is a language spoken as a native language by over 83 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Northern Cyprus with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo,...
, the "s" is not taken as a "z", and so is often pronounced as ˈjæsmɪn.
Yasemin
- Yasemin DalkılıçYasemin DalkiliçYasemin Dalkılıç is a Turkish female free diver. She holds numerous world records in different categories of free diving. Though still in the middle of her career, she is already considered to be one of the all time greats in the sport....
(born 1979), Turkish free diver - Yasemin ErgeneYasemin ErgeneYasemin Ergene is a Turkish-German actress and model.-Filmography:-Television:bunlar dısında 2011de 'doktorlar'-External links:...
(born 1985), Turkish actress - Yasemin HorasanYasemin HorasanYasemin Horasan is a Turkish professional basketball player of Beşiktaş Cola Turka.-Career:Horasan played in the season 2002–2003 for Beşiktaş J.K. and was elected Most Valuable Player of Turkish Women's Basketball League including all domestic and foreign players...
(born 1983), Turkish basketball player - Yasemin KimyacıoğluYasemin KimyaciogluYasemin Kimyacıoğlu,a 5' 7" guard,is a Turkish American women's basketball player at Santa Clara University in California, USA. Her sister, Şebnem Kimyacıoğlu, plays professionally for Turkish club Beşiktaş J.K., and for the Turkish national team. Kimyacıoğlu is a Pinewood High School alumn having...
, Turkish-American basketball player - Yasemin KozanoğluYasemin KozanoğluYasemin Kozanoğlu is a Turkish actress and model-Biography:Yasemin Kozanoğlu was born to businessman Ahmet Kozanoğlu and socialite Ahu Tuğbay. She studied at Eseniş High School and later did video production in England. She started modelling and became one of the most prominent models in Turkey...
(born 1978), Turkish actress and model - Yasemin MoriYasemin Mori-Biography:Although her original last name was Savgı, she chooses to go by the scene alias Mori, which means girl in various ethnic Balkan Turkic languages, and which was a name she was called by many of her friends as a young girl. She composed her first song when she was a teenager. Her first...
(born 1982), Turkish singer - Yasemin SmitYasemin SmitYasemin Smit is a water polo player of the Netherlands who represents the Dutch national team in international competitions....
(born 1984), Dutch water polo player - Yasemin UstalarYasemin UstalarYasemin Ustalar is a Turkish female boxer. She was born in Şereflikoçhisar . She won a silver medal in the 63.5 kg category at the 2002 Women's World Amateur Boxing Championships held in Antalya, Turkey.-References:...
, Turkish boxer - Yasemin ŞamdereliYasemin ŞamdereliYasemin Şamdereli is a Turkish-German actress, screenwriter and film director of Zaza origin. Her film Almanya - Willkommen in Deutschland will have its U.S. premiere at the Berlin and Beyond Film Festival in San Francisco on October 20, 2011.-Actor:-Director:-Writer:-External links:...
(born 1973), Turkish-German actress - Yasemin Saylar (born 1990), Turkish basketball player
Yasmeen
- Yasmeen GhauriYasmeen GhauriYasmeen Ghauri is a Canadian model.-Early life:Yasmeen Ghauri was born in Montreal, Quebec to a Pakistani father, Moin Ghauri, and a German mother, Linda Ghauri. Early on in her life, Ghauri had a difficult childhood often being teased by her classmates at school for being too thin and for her...
(born 1971), Canadian model - Yasmeen HameedYasmeen HameedYasmeen Hameed is a Pakistani Urdu poet. Yasmeen Hameed has over 25 years of experience in the fields of literature, art and education. She is presently working as ‘Writer in Residence’ in the Social Sciences Department at Lahore University of Management Sciences...
, Pakistani Urdu poet - Yasmeen LariYasmeen LariYasmeen Lari is the first woman architect in Pakistan. Motivated by her father, she set her goal to study architecture. Throughout her career, she experienced challenges from the opposite sex in the industry but was still able to uphold her interests and expand on it...
(born 1941), Pakistani architect - Yasmeen SuliemanYasmeen SuliemanYasmeen Sulieman is an American singer born in Oakland, California and raised in Hawaii. She has toured with the musical Little Shop of Horrors and has appeared on the UPN series Half & Half...
, American singer
Yasmin
- Yasmin (musician)Yasmin (musician)Yasmin Zarine Shahmir , who performs under the mononym Yasmin, is a British DJ and singer-songwriter. She is signed to record label Levels Entertainment, an imprint of Ministry of Sound and began her singing career in October 2010 when she appeared on rapper Devlin's single "Runaway"...
, British DJ and singer-songwriter - Yasmin AbbaseyYasmin AbbaseyYasmin Abbasey is a Pakistani Judge, serving in the Sindh High Court. She is one of only two women serving on the court at this time. Justice Abbasey has previously served as a Judge in the lower courts...
(born 1950), Pakistani judge - Yasmin Abdulaziz (born 1980), Egyptian actress
- Yasmin Aga Khan (born 1949), American Pakistani philanthropist
- Yasmin AhmadYasmin AhmadYasmin Ahmad was a film director, writer and scriptwriter from Malaysia and was also the executive creative director at Leo Burnett Kuala Lumpur. Her television commercials and films are well-known in Malaysia for their humour, heart and love that crosses cross-cultural barriers, in particular her...
(1958–2009), Malaysian film director - Yasmin Alibhai-BrownYasmin Alibhai-BrownYasmin Alibhai-Brown MBE is a Ugandan-born British journalist and author, who describes herself as a "leftie liberal, anti-racist, feminist, Muslim, part-Pakistani...a very responsible person"...
(born 1949), Ugandan-born British journalist and author - Yasmin BannermanYasmin BannermanYasmin Bannerman is an English actress. Bannerman was born and brought up in Gloucestershire and attended the Rose Bruford College in London until 1993...
(born 1972), English actress - Yasmin BevanYasmin BevanDame Yasmin Bevan, DBE is the Executive Principal and Headteacher of Denbigh High School and Challney High School for Boys, both in Luton, England. Her current appointment as Executive Principal of both schools started in September 2008...
, English headteacher - Yasmin BrunetYasmin BrunetYasmin Brunet is a Brazilian model who appeared in the 2008 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.- Biography :...
(born 1988), Brazilian model - Yasmin DelizYasmin DelizYasmin Deliz is an American singer-songwriter, model and actress of Dominican and Colombian and Venezuelan parentage. She is best known for her starring role in Next Day Air and her work as co-host on mun2's music video countdown show Vivo and reality television show The Chicas Project.-Early...
(born 1987), American reggaetón singer-songwriter, model and actress - Yasmin K. (born 1986), German pop singer
- Yasmin KafaiYasmin KafaiYasmin B. Kafai, Ph.D., is a Professor of Learning Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, past president of the International Society of the Learning Sciences , and an executive editor of the Journal of the Learning Sciences.Dr. Kafai was born in Germany and has...
, German professor - Yasmin Le BonYasmin Le BonYasmin Le Bon is a British Iranian fashion model. She was born to an Iranian father and an English mother...
(born 1964), British Iranian fashion model - Yasmin LeeYasmin LeeYasmin Lee is an American transsexual pornographic film actress and model.She is of Thai, Cambodian, Chinese, and Brazilian heritage. Her family moved from Thailand to the Philippines before finally settling down in Orange County, California. She joined the U.S...
, Brazilian transsexual pornographic film actor - Yasmin LevyYasmin LevyYasmin Levy , born on December 23, 1975 in Jerusalem, is an Israeli singer-songwriter of Judaeo-Spanish music.-Career:Her late father, Isaac Levy, was a composer and cantor, pioneer researcher into the long and rich history of the Ladino music and culture of Spanish Jewry and its diaspora, being...
(born 1975), Israeli singer-songwriter of Sephardic music - Yasmin PaigeYasmin PaigeYasmin Paige is an English actress who is best known for her role as Maria in The Sarah Jane Adventures, a spin-off from the BBC science fiction television programme Doctor Who. Having acted and modelled since the age of four, she made her screen debut in the 2003 film Wondrous Oblivion...
(born 1991), English actress - Yasmin QureshiYasmin QureshiYasmin Qureshi is a British-Pakistani Labour Party politician and a barrister practicing criminal law. She was elected as the Member of Parliament for Bolton South East in the May 2010 general election.-Early life:...
(born 1963), British politician - Yasmin RatansiYasmin RatansiYasmin Ratansi is a Canadian politician, who represented the riding of Don Valley East in the Canadian House of Commons. She is a member of the Liberal Party. Ratansi is an Ismaili Muslim, and was the first Muslim woman elected to the Canadian House of Commons.-Before politics:Born in Dar es...
(born 1951), Canadian politician - Yasmin SirajYasmin SirajYasmin Siraj is an American figure skater. She is the 2010 U.S. junior silver medalist.- Career :Siraj began skating at the age of two after following her sister Layla to learn-to-skate classes....
(born 1996), American figure skater - Yasmin ViraniYasmin ViraniYasmin Virani is an Indo-Canadian actor-writer-director and two-time winner of the Harrogate Drama Festival.She is the founder of Haute Couture Theatre Company, dedicated to producing avant–garde theatre within the South Asian community in Canada.-External links:...
(born 1979), Canadian actor - Yasmin VossoughianYasmin VossoughianYasmin Vossoughian is an award winning, international journalist. She is the Chief World Poll Correspondent for The Gallup Organization.- Biography :Yasmin was born in New York, the youngest daughter to Dr. Ahad and Shamsi Vossoughian...
, American journalist - Yasmin WarsameYasmin WarsameYasmin Abshir Warsame is a Somali-Canadian model and activist. In 2004, she was named "The Most Alluring Canadian" in a poll by Fashion magazine.-Biography:...
(born 1976), Somali-Canadian model - Yasmin YusoffYasmin YusoffYasmin Yusoff is a Malay song singer from Malaysia and senior radio presenter. She also did pursue a few acting roles in a few films such as Susuk . In her younger years, she was the beauty queen crowned as Miss Malaysia Universe of 1978.-Personal life:...
, Malaysian singer
Yasmina
- Yasmina Azzizi-KettabYasmina Azzizi-Kettab-Achievements:-External links:...
(born 1966), retired Algerian heptathlete - Yasmina KhadraYasmina KhadraYasmina Khadra is the pen name of the Algerian author Mohammed Moulessehoul .-Biography:Moulessehoul, an officer in the Algerian army, adopted a woman's pseudonym to avoid military censorship...
(born 1955), Algerian author - Yasmina RezaYasmina RezaYasmina Reza is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter. Her parents were both of Jewish origin, her father Iranian, her mother Hungarian.-Career:...
(born 1959), French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter - Yasmina SiadatanYasmina SiadatanYasmina Siadatan is a British businesswoman of mixed British and Iranian descent. She was the winner of the fifth series of the British television show The Apprentice. As the winner she was offered a job working for businessman Sir Alan Sugar , who presents the show.-Early life:Siadatan was...
(born 1981), British businesswoman of Iranian descent
Yasmine
- YasmineYasmine (singer)Hilde Rens , better known by her stage name Yasmine, was a Belgian singer, presenter and television personality.-Music:Rens became known as a singer during the 1980s...
(1972–2009), Flemish singer - Yasmine BelmadiYasmine BelmadiYasmine Belmadi was a French actor of Algerian parents. He appeared in 13 films, and had completed his final role, in a television production, the day before his death.-Biography:...
(1976–2009), French actor of Algerian origin - Yasmine BleethYasmine BleethYasmine Amanda Bleeth is an American actress. Her television roles include Caroline Holden in the long-running series Baywatch.-Early life and career:...
(born 1968), American actress - Yasmine GalenornYasmine GalenornYasmine Galenorn writes urban fantasy/paranormal fiction. She previously wrote under the pen name India Ink for her Bath and Body series....
, Romantic fiction writer - Yasmine HananiYasmine HananiYasmine Hanani is an American actress.Hanani was born in Baltimore and grew up in Southfield, Michigan and later in Orange County, Southern California. Hanani has worked on documentaries "Voices of Iraq,". "My Country, My Country" and "The Blood of My Brother"...
(born 1980), American actress - Yasmine KassariYasmine KassariYasmine Kassari , is a Belgian-Moroccan film director.After studying medicine in Paris for one year, she registered at INSAS in Brussels and worked for the production company Les films de la drève...
(born 1970), Belgian-Moroccan film director - Yasmine LafitteYasmine LafitteYasmine Lafitte is a Moroccan pornographic actress who performs under the mononym "Yasmine." She acquired French nationality by marriage...
(born 1973), French pornographic actress - Yasmine MahmoudiehYasmine MahmoudiehYasmine Mahmoudieh is an architect and interior designer.Born in Germany, and with mixed Persian-German parentage, Yasmine studied Art History in Florence, Architecture at the École d'Interieur in Geneva and at UCLA in the United States, and Interior Design at the College of Nôtre Dame in...
, German architect - Yasmine NaghdiYasmine NaghdiYasmine Naghdi is a ballet dancer with The Royal Ballet and winner of the 2009 Young British Dancer of the Year.Born in London, she started training at the Royal Ballet School as a Junior Associate in 2002 and joined The Royal Ballet School, White Lodge, in 2004, aged 12...
, British ballet dancer - Yasmine OudniYasmine Oudni-Club information:*Current club : AS DE L'UNION *Debut club : AC Tizi Ouzou-References:**...
(born 1989), Algerian international volleyball player - Yasmine PahlaviYasmine PahlaviYasmine Pahlavi is the wife of Reza Pahlavi, the last crown prince of the former Imperial State of Iran.-Biography:...
(born 1968), wife of Reza Pahlavi II, Crown Prince of Iran - Yasmine WhiteYasmine WhiteYasmine White is an American triathlete who competes at the Junior Elite level.-Sports background:White participated in club swimming from age 12 and was a standout runner at Arcata High School ....
(born 1989), American triathlete
Surname
- Samina YasmeenSamina YasmeenDr Samina Yasmeen is a Pakistani born Professor in the Discipline of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Western Australia.She teaches courses on world politics, strategy and diplomacy, and Islam and world politics...
, Pakistani professor - Fauzia YasminFauzia YasminBorn in 1942 in Rajshahi, Bangladesh, Ms. Fauzia Yasmin was one of the most popular vocal artists of the then East Pakistan during the 1960s. Her father Mr...
(born 1942), Bangladeshi musician - Sabina YasminSabina YasminSabina Yasmin is a popular singer of Bangladeshi origin. She is renowned in Bangladesh for her patriotic songs as well as her playback singing in Bangladeshi cinema...
(born 1953), Bangladeshi singer
Fictional characters
- Yasmin GreenYasmin GreenYasmin Green was a fictional character in UK soap opera Family Affairs, played by Ebony Thomas from 1998 until the end of the series in 2005.-Arrival:...
, Family Affairs character played by Ebony ThomasEbony ThomasEbony Bones is a British singer-songwriter, record producer and actress. Writing and producing her debut album Bone Of My Bones, she was named one of the "40 Men And Women Who Make London" by Time Out for their 40th Anniversary edition as well as producing the soundtrack for Yves Saint Laurent's...
from 1998 until 2005