zšn

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /zɛʃɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: zeshen

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1. lotus flower

• Demotic: sšn
  • Coptic: ϣⲱϣⲉⲛ (šōšen)
• → Ancient Greek: σοῦσον (soûson)
  • → Middle Persian: [script needed] (swsn' /⁠sōsan⁠/)
    • Classical Persian: سوسَن (sōsan), سَوْسَن (sawsan)
    • → Arabic: سَوْسَن (sawsan)
      • Andalusian Arabic:
        • → Catalan: assussena, assutzena
        • → Galician: azucena
        • → Portuguese: açucena
        • → Spanish: azucena
          • → Cebuano: asusena, asusina
          • → Tagalog: asusena
      • Moroccan Arabic: سوسان (sūsān)
• → Hebrew: שׁוֹשַׁנָּה (shoshaná)
  • → English: Shoshana
  • → French: Chochana
  • → Ancient Greek: Σουσάννα (Sousánna) (see there for further descendants)

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 277.