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Susan is a female given name, a form of Susanna, deriving originally from Middle Egyptian "sšn" (lotus flower), first reported on an 11.Dyn. sarcophagus approximately 2000 B.C. Susan is a very popular name, and variations are found in many languages. However, the Hebrew root for the name for the lily, שושן is derived from the root שוש or ששנ , meaning to be joyful, bright, or cheerful, which is the basis for the word and name ששון Sasson, meaning joy.
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Susan's Blog. A place for Susan's musing, fussing, praise and thanksgiving...on life, religion ... Susan Boyle...I Deamed a Dream ...thesusanblog.blogspot.com/Susan Senator: Susan's Blog
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Photo blog of the award-winning Susan Stripling Photography. ... a blog/site meaning that the blog and the website for susan stripling ...www.susanstriplingblog.com/Susan's Blogs
Susan's Blogs. This blog includes links to my various & diverse blogs... A collaborative blog; Smith Library ... Historic Blogs. Susan @ Wayne Norman ...susan-blog.blogspot.com/Case-Notes from the Artsy Asylum
Broad experience as artist entrepreneur work to the readers' advantage as Susan Reynolds tackles daily life, new technology, conversational or social media, ...susanreynolds.blogs.com/Susan is a female given name, a form of Susanna, deriving originally from Middle Egyptian "sšn" (lotus flower), first reported on an 11.Dyn. sarcophagus approximately 2000 B.C. Susan is a very popular name, and variations are found in many languages. However, the Hebrew root for the name for the lily, שושן is derived from the root שוש or ששנ , meaning to be joyful, bright, or cheerful, which is the basis for the word and name ששון Sasson, meaning joy.
Origin
The Persian name for lily is sausan. A similar word, shoshan, exists in Hebrew, meaning a type of flower, but the exact type is not known. The name of Susa, an ancient city of Persia, may be derived from the lilies which abounded in the plain in which it was situated.
Variations and Nicknames
Susana, Suzan, Susanna, Susannah, Susanne, Suzanne.
Common nicknames for Susan include Sue, Suse, Susie, Sukie, Suzi, Suzy, Suzie, and Sanna.
English given name Susan in other languages
- سوسـن (Soosan) in Persian/Arabic
- Suzanne in French
- Susanne in German, Danish and Norwegian.
- Shoshana (שושנה) in Hebrew (often shortened to Shosh, Shoshi (שוש, שושי)
- Susanna in Italian and in Swedish
- Xuxa in Latin origin
- Zuzana in Czech and Slovak
- Zuzanna in Polish
- Zuzia in Polish
- Susana in Portuguese and Spanish
- Sosamma in Malayalam
- Susanna in Estonian
- Сузана in Serbian
- Сюзана in Russian
- ܫܘܫܢ OR ܫܘܫܢܬ shushan OR shushaneh in Assyrian/Chaldean/Aramaic/Syriac
- Suzan in Turkish
- Сусанна in Ukrainian
- Zsuzsanna in Hungarian
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See also
- List of famous Susans
- Lazy Susan
