Midan Shady Sphere · Knock With Your Name
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Where we meet with culture, questions, and craft.
Knock with your name — from any language. Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Russian, Hindi, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Irish, Haitian Creole, Jamaican Patois, and more. If we know it, you get a plain-English meaning, where it comes from, and the name in its own script when there is a real one. Tap Hear it to hear it said. We only write what is well known. If we don’t have it, we say so.
Guests can ask about the names set out front. The rest of the list is inside the club.
Persian, via Arabic
Also Jasmine
In its own script
Arabic
ياسمين
Persian
یاسمن
Meaning
Jasmine.
Origin
The jasmine flower. The plant name traveled from Persian yasamin into Arabic yasmīn, and from there into English jasmine.
The flower on the sill. Persian, then Arabic, then English.