Shushan

See also: Shǔshān

English

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Proper noun

Shushan (plural Shushans)

1. A surname.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Shushan”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
• Forebears

Etymology 2

From Mandarin 蜀山 (Shǔshān).

Proper noun

Shushan

1. A district of Hefei, Anhui, China
   • 2018, Xuefeng Zhong, Bert Potemans, Chanuantong Tanasugarn, Edwin B. Fisher, “Extension of Peer Support from Diabetes Management to Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Management in Primary Care and Community Settings in Anhui Province, China”, in Ronald Ross Watson, Sherma Zibadi, editors, Lifestyle in Heart Health and Disease‎^[1], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 29:

     The cardiovascular prevention progrm was undertaken in two phases: a pilot phase in the Heyedi community in Shushan district of Hefei City and a wider implementation phase, in which the program was implemented in a further seven communities [62].

   • 2019 April, “Rescue of the Dissident's Daughter Annie”, in WRIC team, transl., The Status of Females in Rural China — WRIC records those true history for 10 years‎^[2], Women's Rights in China (中国妇权), →ISBN, page 270:

     In order to ensure judgmental fairness and justice, lawyers required the court to investigate the act of Hefei National security, to look into their responsibilities and to release two parties on the spot.
     On December 12, 2014, Shushan District opened a court session to sentence Yao with one year and ten months of imprisonment.

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蜀山 (zh) (Shǔshān)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Hebrew שׁוּשָׁן.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈˈʃuːˌʃɑn/, /ˈˈʃuːˌʃæn/

Proper noun

Shushan

1. (biblical) Susa, Shush (the ancient capital of Elam, in modern Iran).
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Esther 9:13–15:

     13 Then said Esther, If it please the king, Let it bee granted to the Iewes which are in Shushan, to doe to morow also, according vnto this dayes decree, and let Hamans ten sonnes be hanged vpon the gallous.
     14 And the king commanded it so to be done; and the decree was giuen at Shushan, and they hanged Hamans ten sonnes.
     15 For the Iewes that were in Shushan, gathered themselues together on the fourteenth day also of the moneth Adar, and slewe three hundred men at Shushan: but on the pray they laid not their hand.