zšn

zšn

Egyptian

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /zaˈʃaːʃan/ → /ˈsaːʃan/ → /ˈsoːʃən/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /zaˈʃaːʃan/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈsaːʃan/
• (Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈsoːʃən/

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

Noun

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1. lotus flower

Inflection

Declension of zšn (masculine)

singular	zšn
dual	zšnwj
plural	zšnw

Descendants

• → Ancient Greek: σοῦσον (soûson) (see there for further descendants)
  • → Middle Persian: swsn' (sōsan)
    • → Arabic: سُوسَن‎ (sūsan)
      • Andalusian Arabic: السوسنة‎ (as-sūsána)
        • → Spanish: azucena
    • Persian: سوسن‎ (sôsan)
• Demotic: sšn
  • Coptic: ϣⲱϣⲉⲛ (šōšen)
• → Hebrew: שושנה‎ (shoshaná)

References

• 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.