سوسن

From Middle Persian swsn' (sōsan) (Persian سوسن‎ (susan)), from Ancient Greek σοῦσον (soûson), ultimately from Egyptian

(zšn, “lotus”).

سَوْسَن • (sawsan) m

1. lily

• Freytag, Georg (1833), “سوسن”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 375
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “سوسن”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1466
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “سوسن”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 613
• Zimmern, Heinrich (1915) Akkadische Fremdwörter als Beweis für babylonischen Kultureinfluss (in German), Leipzig: A. Edelmann, page 58

From Middle Persian swsn' (sōsan), from Ancient Greek σοῦσον (soûson), ultimately from Egyptian zšn. Compare Old Armenian շուշան (šušan), Old Georgian შროშანი (šrošani), Biblical Hebrew שׁוֹשָׁן‎ (šōšān), שׁוֹשַׁנָּה‎ (šōšannā), Aramaic שַׁוֹשַׁנְתָּא‎ (šōšantā).

• IPA^(key): /soːˈsæn/, /sæʊˈsæn/
• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /suːˈsæn/

سوسن • (sôsan, sowsan) (plural سوسن‌ها‎ (sôsan, sowsan-hâ))

1. lily

سوسن • (sôsan)

1. a female given name, Susan, Sousan, or Soosan, from Middle Persian