Sudan

Emblem of Sudan

English

Etymology

From Arabic سُودَان (sūdān, black people), plural of أَسْوَد (ʔaswad).[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).

Usage notes

The country is traditionally referred to with the definite article the, though this construction has declined in use.[2]

Derived terms

Translations

See also

References

  1. Douglas Harper (2001–2023), Sudan”, in Online Etymology Dictionary, retrieved 7 July 2019.
  2. Motschenbacher, Heiko (2020), Greece, the Netherlands and (the) Ukraine: A Corpus-Based Study of Definite Article Use with Country Names”, in A Journal of Onomastics, volume 68, issue 1, DOI:10.1080/00277738.2020.1731241, pages 1–16

Anagrams


Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Sudan m

  1. Sudan (a country in North Africa)

Derived terms


Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Sudan

  1. Sudan (a country in Africa)

Finnish

Etymology

From Arabic سُودَان (sūdān).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsudɑn/, [ˈs̠udɑn]
  • Rhymes: -udɑn
  • Syllabification(key): Su‧dan

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
Possessive forms of Sudan (type risti)
possessor singular plural
1st person Sudanini Sudanimme
2nd person Sudanisi Sudaninne
3rd person Sudaninsa

Derived terms

Anagrams


Gagauz

Proper noun

Sudan

  1. Sudan (a country in Africa)

German

Alternative forms

  • Ssudan (archaic)

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Sudan m (proper noun, strong, genitive Sudans or Sudan, plural Sudan)

  1. Sudan (a country in North Africa)
    • 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 [...]
      (please add an English translation of this quote)
    • 1855, R. Nievergelt, Leitfaden der Geographie für Sekundarschulen, page 41:
      Die Ureinwohner sind Neger in Hochafrika und den beiden Sudan [...]
      (please add an English translation of this quote)

Derived terms


Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsu.dan/, (traditional) /suˈdan/[1]
  • Rhymes: -udan, (traditional) -an
  • Hyphenation: Sù‧dan, (traditional) Su‧dàn

Proper noun

Sudan m

  1. Sudan

Derived terms

References

  1. Sudan in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams


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)
  • Rhymes: -udan
  • Syllabification: Su‧dan

Proper noun

Sudan m

  1. Sudan (a country in North Africa)

Declension

Derived terms

adjective
nouns
  • Sudanka
  • Sudańczyk

Further reading

  • Sudan in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • 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

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Proper noun

Sudan

  1. Sudan

See also


Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Sudán (Sudan).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: Su‧dan
  • IPA(key): /suˈdan/, [sʊˈdan]

Proper noun

Sudán (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜇᜈ᜔)

  1. Sudan (a country in North Africa)

Turkish

Proper noun

Sudan

  1. Sudan (a country in East Africa)

Declension

See also

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