Sudan

Emblem of Sudan

English

Etymology

From Arabic سُودَان (sūdān, black people), plural of أَسْوَد (ʾaswad).[1]

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /suːˈdɑːn/
  • (US) IPA(key): /suˈdæn/, /suˈdɑn/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑːn, -æn

Proper noun

Sudan (plural Sudans)

  1. Country in Northeast Africa
    Often used with the definite article "the".
    1. Turkish Sudan; autonym Turkiyyah; Sudan under the Eyalet of Egypt, from 1820 to 1885
    2. Mahdist State, also known as Mahdist Sudan or the Sudanese Mahdiyya, from 1885 to 1898
    3. Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, a condominium of the United Kingdom and Egypt from 1899 to 1955
    4. Republic of the Sudan, since 1955
  2. A climatic zone characterized by savannas and mosaic forests running in a belt just south of the Sahel in West and East Africa
  3. (historical) Mali (when it was under French colonial rule as Soudan).

Derived terms

Translations

See also

References

  1. Sudan” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019, retrieved 7 July 2019.

Anagrams


Catalan

Etymology

From Arabic أَسْوَد (ʾaswad, black man), plural سُودَان (sūdān).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Sudan m

  1. Sudan

Finnish

Proper noun

Sudan

  1. Sudan

Declension

Inflection of Sudan (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative Sudan
genitive Sudanin
partitive Sudania
illative Sudaniin
singular plural
nominative Sudan
accusative nom. Sudan
gen. Sudanin
genitive Sudanin
partitive Sudania
inessive Sudanissa
elative Sudanista
illative Sudaniin
adessive Sudanilla
ablative Sudanilta
allative Sudanille
essive Sudanina
translative Sudaniksi
instructive
abessive Sudanitta
comitative

Derived terms

Anagrams


German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zuˈdaːn/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: Su‧dan
  • Rhymes: -aːn

Proper noun

Sudan m (genitive Sudan or Sudans, plural Sudan)

  1. Sudan
    • 1839, Fr. von Rougemont, Ch. H. Hugendubel, Geographie des Menschen, ethnographisch, statistisch und historisch. Erster Band, page 28:
      Hoch- und Nieder-Sudan [....] Die Araber haben mit ihrer Religion ihre obwohl sehr unvollkommene Gesittung verbreitet; durch sie wurden nicht bloß in Aegypten und auf dem Atlas, sondern auch in den beiden Sudan Schulen gegründet [...]
    • 1855, R. Nievergelt, Leitfaden der Geographie für Sekundarschulen, page 41:
      Die Ureinwohner sind Neger in Hochafrika und den beiden Sudan [...]

Derived terms


Italian

Proper noun

Sudan m

  1. Sudan

Derived terms


Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Sudan

  1. Sudan

See also


Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Sudan

  1. Sudan

See also


Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsu.dan/
  • (file)

Proper noun

Sudan m

  1. Sudan

Declension

Derived terms

  • (nouns) Sudańczyk m, Sudanka f
  • (adjective) sudański

Further reading

  • Sudan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sǔdaːn/
  • Hyphenation: Su‧dan

Proper noun

Sùdān m (Cyrillic spelling Су̀да̄н)

  1. Sudan

Declension


Swahili

Alternative forms

Proper noun

Sudan

  1. Sudan

See also


Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish Sudán (Sudan).

Proper noun

Sudán

  1. Sudan

Turkish

Proper noun

Sudan

  1. Sudan
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