šūšum

Cognate with Arabic سُوس (sūs) and Hebrew שׁוּשׁ (šuš).

• (Old Babylonian) IPA^(key): /ˈʃuː.ʃum/

šūšum m (from Old Babylonian on)

1. liquorice

• šūšu (non-mimated)
• sūsū (Neo-Assyrian)

• “šūšu”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)‎^[1], Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1956–2011
• Black, Jeremy, George, Andrew, Postgate, Nicholas (2000) “šūšu(m)”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, via the electronic Babylonian Library