Jasmina
Sign in to saveJasmina (), sometimes Jasminka, as a feminine variant, and Jasmin (), sometimes Jasminko, as a masculine variant, are given names used in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Bulgaria and Slovenia, and same as a given name Jasmine, which is the common form in German, Romance and English-speaking countries, although almost always as a feminine variation.
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- Instance of
- female given name
- Said to be same as
- Jasmin
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- native label
- Jasmina
- language of work or name
- Croatian
- writing system
- Latin script
- Soundex
- J255
- Cologne phonetics
- 0866
- Caverphone
- YSMN11
- Commons category
- Jasmina (given name)
- given name version for other gender
- Jasmin
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Jasmina (), sometimes Jasminka, as a feminine variant, and Jasmin (), sometimes Jasminko, as a masculine variant, are given names used in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Bulgaria and Slovenia, and same as a given name Jasmine, which is the common form in German, Romance and English-speaking countries, although almost always as a feminine variation.
==Origin== These given names, both feminine and masculine variation, refer to a flower of a genus of Jasmine shrub and vine in the olive family, whose taxon name ultimately derives etymologically from the Old Persian, Yasameen (), used in Persian as given name Yasmin
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