Persian · noun · Nature & the Garden

Yasmin

यासमीन

said yaas-meen

also written: Yasmeen, Saman

Meaning

Jasmine, a delicate white flower prized for its sweet fragrance.

How Iqbal uses it

Yasmin is one of the fragrant whites of the garden, an emblem of purity, tenderness, and sweet scent. It populates the rose-garden imagery as a flower of gentle, fragrant beauty among the blooms of spring.

See it in the verse

Yasmin in Iqbal’s couplets

Qalb o nazar ki zindagi dasht mein subh ka samaan
Chashma-e-aftab se nuur ki naddiyan ravaan

The life of the heart and the eye is like daybreak in the desert; from the spring of the sun, rivers of light flow out.

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Related words

PERSIAN

Saman

Jasmine, the fragrant white flower; also a byword for whiteness and softness.

PERSIAN

Nasreen

A kind of wild white rose, the fragrant dog-rose of Persian gardens.

PERSIAN

Sosan

The lily or iris, a garden flower whose blade-like petals are compared to a tongue.

PERSIAN

Sunbul

The hyacinth, a fragrant flower whose dark, curling tresses are likened to the beloved's hair.

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