سوسن

Arabic

Etymology

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

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(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:

References
  • 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 with 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

Persian

Etymology

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).

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