Sudan

See also: sudan, Sudán, Súdan, Súdán, sūdān, Sūdan, and sud-an

Emblem of Sudan

Sudan on a globe.

English

 

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Sudan

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• (country): Soudan

Etymology

From Arabic سُودَان (sūdān, “black people”), plural of أَسْوَد (ʔaswad).^[1]

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /suːˈdɑːn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /suˈdæn/, /suˈdɑn/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /sʉːˈdæn/, (rare) /sʉːˈdɐːn/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑːn, -æn

Proper noun

Sudan or the Sudan (countable and uncountable, plural Sudans)

2. A country in North Africa and East 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
3. A climatic zone characterized by savannas and mosaic forests running in a belt just south of the Sahel in West and East Africa
4. (historical) Mali (when it was under French colonial rule as Soudan).
5. A minor city in Lamb County, Texas, United States, apparently named after the African region.

Usage notes

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

Derived terms

(deprecated template usage)

• Port Sudan
• Republic of South Sudan
• Southern Sudan
• South Sudan
• Sudan brown
• Sudanese (relating to the country)
• Sudanian (relating to the climatic region)

Translations

Republic of Sudan

Afrikaans: Soedan Albanian: Sudan m, Sudani (sq) m (definite) Amharic: ሱዳን (sudan) Arabic: السُّودَان (ar) m (as-sūdān) (definite) Armenian: Սուդան (Sudan) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܣܘܼܕܵܢ f (sūdān) Azerbaijani: Sudan (az) Belarusian: Суда́н m (Sudán) Bengali: সুদান (bn) (śudan) Breton: Soudan Bulgarian: Суда́н m (Sudán) Burmese: ဆူဒန် (hcudan) Catalan: Sudan (ca) m Chinese: Cantonese: 蘇丹 / 苏丹 (sou1 daan1) Mandarin: 蘇丹 / 苏丹 (zh) (Sūdān) Czech: Súdán (cs) m Danish: Sudan (da) n Dhivehi: ސޫދާން (sūdān̊) Dinka: Thudän Dutch: Sudan (nl) n, Soedan (nl) n Esperanto: Sudano (eo) Estonian: Sudaan (et) Finnish: Sudan (fi) French: Soudan (fr) m Georgian: სუდანი (ka) (sudani) German: Sudan (de) m Greek: Σουδάν (el) n (Soudán) Gujarati: સુદાન (sudān) Hausa: Sudan Hebrew: סוּדָן (he) f (sudán) Hindi: सूडान (hi) m (sūḍān), सुदान (hi) m (sudān) Hungarian: Szudán (hu) Icelandic: Súdan (is) n Indonesian: Sudan (id) Interlingua: Sudan Irish: An tSúdáin f Italian: Sudan (it) m Japanese: スーダン (ja) (Sūdan) Kalenjin: Sudan Kamba: Sudan Kazakh: Судан (kk) (Sudan) Khmer: ស៊ូដង់ (km) (suudɑng) Kikuyu: Sudan Korean: 수단 (ko) (Sudan) Kyrgyz: Судан (ky) (Sudan) Lao: ຊູດານ (sū dān), ສູດັງ (sū dang), ຊູດັງ (sū dang) Latvian: Sudāna (lv) f Lithuanian: Sudanas (lt) m Luhya: Sudan Luo: Sudan Macedonian: Судан (mk) m (Sudan) Malay: Sudan (ms) Maltese: Is-Sudan m (definite) Maori: Hūtāne Marathi: सुदान m (sudān) Meru: Sudan Mongolian: Cyrillic: Судан (Sudan) Navajo: Soodą́ą Norman: Soudan m Norwegian: Bokmål: Sudan (no) n Nynorsk: Sudan (nn) n Ottoman Turkish: سودان (sudan) Pashto: سوډان (sūḍān) Persian: Dari: سُودَان (sūdān) Iranian Persian: سودان (sudân) Polish: Sudan (pl) m Portuguese: Sudão (pt) m Romanian: Sudan (ro) n Russian: Суда́н (ru) m (Sudán) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Су̀да̄н m Roman: Sùdān (sh) m Sinhalese: සූඩානය (sūḍānaya) Slovak: Sudán (sk) m Slovene: Sudan (sl) m Spanish: Sudán (es) m Swahili: Sudan (sw), Sudani (sw) Swedish: Sudan (sv) n Tagalog: Sudan (tl) Tajik: Судон (Sudon) Tamil: சூடான் (cūṭāṉ) Tatar: Судан (Sudan) Thai: ซูดาน (th) (suu-daan) Tigrinya: ሱዳን (sudan) Turkish: Sudan (tr) Turkmen: Sudan Ukrainian: Суда́н (uk) m (Sudán) Urdu: سُوڈان m (sūḍān), سُودان m (sūdān) Uyghur: سۇدان (ug) (sudan) Uzbek: Sudan (uz) Vietnamese: Xu-đăng Welsh: Swdan, Siwdan Yiddish: סודאַן (sudan) Yoruba: Sudani

See also

• Countries of the world
• Darfur
• Kush
• Nubia
• South Sudan
• Template:list:countries of Africa/en

References

1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2025), “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, number 1, →DOI, pages 1–16

Anagrams

• Duans, Sunda, duans, unsad

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سُودَان (sūdān, literally “black men”), plural of أَسْوَد (ʔaswad).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [suˈðan]

• Audio (Valencia):

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• Rhymes: -an

Proper noun

Sudan m

1. Sudan (a country in North Africa and East Africa)

Derived terms

(deprecated template usage)

• Sudan del Sud
• sudanès
• sudànic

Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Sudan

1. Sudan (a country in North Africa and East Africa)

Danish

 

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

Sudan

Wikipedia ^da

Proper noun

Sudan

1. Sudan (a country in North Africa and East Africa)

Derived terms

• sudaner
• sudansk

Finnish

 

Finnish Wikipedia has an article on:

Sudan

Wikipedia ^fi

Etymology

From Arabic سُودَان (sūdān).

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Sudan

1. Sudan (a country in North Africa and East Africa)

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	—
abessive		Sudanitta	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of Sudan (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Sudanini — accusative nom. Sudanini — gen. Sudanini genitive Sudanini — partitive Sudaniani — inessive Sudanissani — elative Sudanistani — illative Sudaniini — adessive Sudanillani — ablative Sudaniltani — allative Sudanilleni — essive Sudaninani — translative Sudanikseni — abessive Sudanittani — instructive — — comitative — — second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Sudanisi — accusative nom. Sudanisi — gen. Sudanisi genitive Sudanisi — partitive Sudaniasi — inessive Sudanissasi — elative Sudanistasi — illative Sudaniisi — adessive Sudanillasi — ablative Sudaniltasi — allative Sudanillesi — essive Sudaninasi — translative Sudaniksesi — abessive Sudanittasi — instructive — — comitative — — first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Sudanimme — accusative nom. Sudanimme — gen. Sudanimme genitive Sudanimme — partitive Sudaniamme — inessive Sudanissamme — elative Sudanistamme — illative Sudaniimme — adessive Sudanillamme — ablative Sudaniltamme — allative Sudanillemme — essive Sudaninamme — translative Sudaniksemme — abessive Sudanittamme — instructive — — comitative — — second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Sudaninne — accusative nom. Sudaninne — gen. Sudaninne genitive Sudaninne — partitive Sudanianne — inessive Sudanissanne — elative Sudanistanne — illative Sudaniinne — adessive Sudanillanne — ablative Sudaniltanne — allative Sudanillenne — essive Sudaninanne — translative Sudaniksenne — abessive Sudanittanne — instructive — — comitative — — third-person possessor singular plural nominative Sudaninsa — accusative nom. Sudaninsa — gen. Sudaninsa genitive Sudaninsa — partitive Sudaniaan Sudaniansa — inessive Sudanissaan Sudanissansa — elative Sudanistaan Sudanistansa — illative Sudaniinsa — adessive Sudanillaan Sudanillansa — ablative Sudaniltaan Sudaniltansa — allative Sudanilleen Sudanillensa — essive Sudaninaan Sudaninansa — translative Sudanikseen Sudaniksensa — abessive Sudanittaan Sudanittansa — instructive — — comitative — —

Derived terms

(deprecated template usage)

• sudanilainen

(deprecated template usage)

compounds

• Etelä-Sudan

Anagrams

• sadun, sunda

Gagauz

 

Gagauz Wikipedia has an article on:

Sudan

Wikipedia ^gag

Proper noun

Sudan

1. Sudan (a country in North Africa and East Africa)

German

 

German Wikipedia has an article on:

Sudan

Wikipedia ^de

Alternative forms

• Ssudan (archaic)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zuˈdaːn/
• IPA^(key): /suˈdaːn/ (learned)

• Audio:

  (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 and East 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 quotation)

   • 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 quotation)

Derived terms

(deprecated template usage)

• Hochsudan
• Nordsudan
• Sudaner
• Sudanese
• sudanesisch
• sudanisch
• Südsudan

See also

• Template:list:countries of Africa/de

Italian

 

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

Sudan

Wikipedia ^it

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Sudan m

1. Sudan (a country in North Africa and East Africa)

Derived terms

• sudanese

References

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

Anagrams

• snuda

Maltese

 

Maltese Wikipedia has an article on:

Sudan

Wikipedia ^mt

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /suˈdaːn/

Proper noun

Is-Sudan m

1. Sudan (a country in North Africa and East Africa; official name: Repubblika tas-Sudan)

Norwegian Bokmål

 

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

Sudan

Wikipedia ^no

Proper noun

Sudan

1. Sudan (a country in North Africa and East Africa)

Related terms

• sudaner
• sudansk

See also

• Sør-Sudan

Norwegian Nynorsk

 

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

Sudan

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Proper noun

Sudan

1. Sudan (a country in North Africa and East Africa)

Related terms

• sudanar
• sudansk

See also

• Sør-Sudan

Polish

 

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

Sudan

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سُودَان (sūdān).

Pronunciation

Template:pl-p

Proper noun

Sudan m inan (related adjective sudański)

1. Sudan (a country in North Africa and East Africa)

Declension

Declension of Sudan

	singular
nominative	Sudan
genitive	Sudanu
dative	Sudanowi
accusative	Sudan
instrumental	Sudanem
locative	Sudanie
vocative	Sudanie

Derived terms

(deprecated template usage)

nouns

• Sudanka
• Sudańczyk

Further reading

• Sudan in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Sudan in PWN's encyclopedia

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

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1. Sudan (a country in North Africa and East Africa)

Declension

Declension of Sudan

	singular
nominative	Sùdān
genitive	Sudána
dative	Sudanu
accusative	Sudan
vocative	Sudane
locative	Sudanu
instrumental	Sudanom

Swahili

Alternative forms

• Sudani

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

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Proper noun

Sudan

1. Sudan (a country in North Africa and East Africa)

Related terms

• Msudani

See also

• Template:list:countries of Africa/sw

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Sudán (“Sudan”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /suˈdan/ [sʊˈd̪an̪]
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: Su‧dan

Proper noun

Sudán (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜇᜈ᜔)

1. Sudan (a country in North Africa and East Africa)

Anagrams

• Undas, undas

Turkish

 

Turkish Wikipedia has an article on:

Sudan

Wikipedia ^tr

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Sudan

1. Sudan (a country in North Africa and East Africa)

Declension

Declension of Sudan

	singular
nominative	Sudan
accusative	Sudan'ı
dative	Sudan'a
locative	Sudan'da
ablative	Sudan'dan
genitive	Sudan'ın

Possessive forms of Sudan

	singular	plural
benim (my)	Sudan'ım	Sudanlarım Sudan'larım
senin (your)	Sudan'ın	Sudanların Sudan'ların
onun (his/her/its)	Sudan'ı	Sudanları Sudan'ları
bizim (our)	Sudan'ımız	Sudanlarımız Sudan'larımız
sizin (your)	Sudan'ınız	Sudanlarınız Sudan'larınız
onların (their)	Sudan'ı Sudanları Sudan'ları	Sudanları Sudan'ları

See also

• Template:list:countries of Africa/tr