Susan

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Susan is a feminine given name, from Persian Lily flower, from Old French Susanne, from Latin Susanna, from Greek Sousanna, from Hebrew Shoshanna, roughly equivalent to the name Rose.

Variations

• Susana (given name), Susanna, Susannah
• Suzana, Suzanna, Suzannah
• Susann, Suzan, Suzann
• Susanne (given name), Suzanne
• Susanne (given name)
• Suzan (given name)
• Suzanne
• Suzette (given name)
• Suzy (given name)

Nicknames

Common nicknames for Susan include:

• Sue (disambiguation), Susie, Suzi, Suzy, Suzie, Suze, Sanna, Suzie, Sookie, Sukie, Sukey, Subo, Suus (Dutch)

In other languages

• Persian: سوسن‎ (Sousan, Susan) / Tajik: Савсан (Savsan), Tajik: Сӯсан (Sūsan)
• Arabic: سوسن‎ (Sawsan)
• Armenian: Շուշան (Šušan)
• Chinese: 苏珊 (Sushan)
• Sujan in Korean (수잔)
• 蘇珊 in Cantonese (Soshan)
• Suzanne in French and Dutch
• Susanne in German, Danish and Norwegian
• Hebrew: שושנה‎ Shoshana (often shortened to Hebrew: שוש‎ Shosh, Hebrew: שושי‎ Shoshi)
• Sosamma in Malayalam
• Zsuzsanna in Hungarian
• Susanna in Italian
• Japanese: スーザン (Sūzan)
• Susanna, Sanna and Susanne in Swedish
• Zuzanna or Zane in Latvian
• Zuzana in Czech and Slovak
• Zuzanna, Zuzia in Polish
• Susana in Portuguese, Spanish, along with a newly invented form Azucena (the modern Spanish word for "lily")
• Susanna in Catalan
• Suzana in Romanian
• Susanna in Estonian
• Сузана in Serbian
• Susen in Switzerland
• Сюзанна in Russian
• Σουζάνα (Souzana) or Σωσσάνα (Sosana) or Σουσάννα (Sousanna) in Greek
• ܫܘܫܢ or ܫܘܫܢܬ (Shushan or Shushaneh) in Assyrian/Chaldean/Aramaic/Syriac
• Suzan in Turkish
• Сусанна in Ukrainian
• Urdu: کنول‎
• Süsən in Azerbaijani

See also

• Lazy Susan
• Black-eyed Susan (disambiguation)
• List of people named Susan
• The SUSAN corner detector, a computer vision algorithm

References

External links

• Etymology of Hebrew "shoshana" – basis of the name "Susan"