سوسن

Arabic

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (swsn' /⁠sōsan⁠/, Modern سوسن (susan)), from Ancient Greek σοῦσον (soûson), ultimately from Egyptian

(zšn, “lotus”).

Noun

سَوْسَن • (sawsan) m

1. lily

Declension

Declension of noun سَوْسَن (sawsan)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	سَوْسَن sawsan	السَّوْسَن as-sawsan	سَوْسَن sawsan
Nominative	سَوْسَنٌ sawsanun	السَّوْسَنُ as-sawsanu	سَوْسَنُ sawsanu
Accusative	سَوْسَنًا sawsanan	السَّوْسَنَ as-sawsana	سَوْسَنَ sawsana
Genitive	سَوْسَنٍ sawsanin	السَّوْسَنِ as-sawsani	سَوْسَنِ sawsani

Descendants

• Andalusian Arabic: السوسنة (as-sūsána)
  • → Portuguese: açucena
  • → Spanish: azucena

References

• Freytag, Georg (1833) “سوسن”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 375
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “سوسن”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[2], London: Williams & Norgate, page 1466
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “سوسن”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (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

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (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).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [soː.ˈsan], [saw.ˈsan]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [soː.sǽn], [säw.sǽn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [soː.sǽn], [säw.sǽn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [soː.sǽn], [säw.sǽn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [sʊː.sǽn], [säw.sǽn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [suː.sǽn], [sow.sǽn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [sɵ.sǽn], [säw.sǽn]

Readings
Classical reading?	sōsan, sawsan
Dari reading?	sōsan, sawsan
Iranian reading?	susan, sowsan
Tajik reading?	süsan, savsan

Noun

Dari	سوسن
Iranian Persian
Tajik	сӯсан, савсан

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

1. lily

Proper noun

سوسن • (sôsan)

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