Susa - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

From Latin Sūsa, from Ancient Greek Σοῦσα (Soûsa), from Old Persian 𐏂𐎢𐏁𐎠 (Çūšā). Doublet of Sus and Shush.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsuːzə/

Susa

2. (historical) Former name of Shush, a city in Iran which served as an ancient capital of Elam, the Persian Empire, the Seleucid Empire and the Parthian Empire.

• Sus, Shush

• SAUs, Suas, USSA

From Latin Segūsiō.

Susa f

1. A small town in Torino, Piedmont, Italy
2. Sousse (a city in Tunisia)

From Ancient Greek Σοῦσα (Soûsa).

Sūsa n pl (genitive Sūsōrum); second declension

1. (historical) Susa (a former city in Iran)

Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, plural only.

• “Susa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Susa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

From Ottoman Turkish, ultimately from Old Persian 𐏂𐎢𐏁𐎠 (Çūšā).

Susa

1. (historical) Susa (a former city in Iran)