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Sicilian
Etymology
From Arabic يَاسَمِين (yāsamīn), via Siculo-Arabic. Cognate with Italian gelsomino.
Noun
gesiminu m needs inflection
- jasmine (Jasminum officinale)
- gesuminu cidratu / di l'Arabbia / di Malta ― Arabian jasmine (Jasminum sambac)
- gesuminu di Nàpuli ― Spanish jasmine (Jasminum grandiflorum)
Descendants
References
- Traina, Antonino (1868) “gesuminu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 1832
- Pasqualino (c. 1790) “gesiminu”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 2, page 215