Sudan

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Arabic اسود (“black man”), plural سودان (sudá:n).

Pronunciation

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  Rhymes: -æn

Proper noun

Sudan

1. Country in Northeast Africa. Official name: Republic of Sudan.

   Often used with the definite article "the".

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. Former name for the present day country of Mali when it was under French colonial rule (Soudan)

Derived terms

• South Sudan
• Southern Sudan
• Sudanese (relating to the country)
• Sudanian (relating to the climatic region)

Translations

Republic of Sudan

Arabic: السودان (ar) (al-sudaan) m. Armenian: Սուդան (hy) (Sudan) Belarusian: Судан (be) (Sudán) m. Bengali: সুদান (bn) (sudan) Bosnian: Sudan (bs) m. Breton: Soudan Bulgarian: Судан (bg) (Sudán) m. Catalan: Sudan (ca) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 蘇丹 (cmn), 苏丹 (cmn) (Sūdān) Croatian: Sudan (hr) m. Czech: Súdán (cs) m. Danish: Sudan (da) Dutch: Sudan (nl), Soedan (nl) Esperanto: Sudano Finnish: Sudan (fi) French: Soudan (fr) m. Georgian: სუდანი (ka) (sudani) German: Sudan (de) m. Greek: Σουδάν (el) (Soudán) n. Hebrew: סודן (he) Hindi: सूडान (hi) (sūḍān) Hungarian: Szudán (hu) Interlingua: Sudan Italian: Sudan (it) m. Japanese: スーダン (ja) (Sūdan) Kalenjin: Sudan Kamba: Sudan Khmer: ​ប្រទេស​ស៊ូដង់ (km) (prɑteih suudɑng), ស៊ូដង់ (km) (suudɑng)

Kikuyu: Sudan Korean: 수단 (ko) (Sudan) Luhya: Sudan Luo: Sudan Macedonian: Судан (mk) (Súdan) m. Maltese: is-Sudan Meru: Sudan Mongolian: Судан (mn) (Sudán) Navajo: Soodą́ą Norwegian: Sudan (no) Persian: سودان (fa) (Sudân) Polish: Sudan (pl) m. Portuguese: Sudão (pt) m. Romanian: Sudan (ro) n. Russian: Судан (ru) (Sudán) m. Serbian: Cyrillic: Судан m. Roman: Sudan m. Slovak: Sudán (sk) m. Slovene: Sudan (sl) m. Spanish: Sudán (es) m. Swahili: Sudani (sw) Swedish: Sudan (sv) Thai: ซูดาน (th) (sūdān) Turkish: Sudan (tr) Ukrainian: Судан (uk) (Sudán) m. Urdu: سوڈان (ur) (sūḍān) Welsh: Swdan, Siwdan

See also

• Countries of the world
• Darfur
• Kush
• Nubia
• South Sudan

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Catalan

Etymology

From Arabic اسود (“black man”), plural سودان.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /suˈðan/, SAMPA: /su"Dan/
• Rhymes: -an

Proper noun

Sudan m. 

1. Sudan

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Finnish

Wikipedia ^fi

Proper noun

Sudan

1. Sudan

Declension

Declension of Sudan (type risti) singular plural nominative Sudan – genitive Sudanin – partitive Sudania – accusative Sudan Sudanin – inessive Sudanissa – elative Sudanista – illative Sudaniin – adessive Sudanilla – ablative Sudanilta – allative Sudanille – essive Sudanina – translative Sudaniksi – instructive – – abessive Sudanitta – comitative – –

Anagrams

• sadun, sunda

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German

Wikipedia ^de

Proper noun

Sudan m.

1. Sudan

Derived terms

• sudanesisch
• Sudanese
• Sudanesin

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Italian

Wikipedia ^it

Proper noun

Sudan m.

1. Sudan

Derived terms

• sudanese

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Norwegian

Proper noun

Sudan

1. Sudan

Related terms

• sudaner
• sudansk

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈsudan/

Proper noun

Sudan m.

1. Sudan

Declension

	Singular only
Nominative	Sudan
Genitive	Sudanu
Dative	Sudanowi
Accusative	Sudan
Instrumental	Sudanem
Locative	Sudanie
Vocative	Sudanie

Derived terms

• Sudańczyk m., Sudanka f.
• adjective: sudański

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /sǔdaːn/
• Hyphenation: Su‧dan

Proper noun

Sùdān m. (Cyrillic spelling Су̀да̄н)

1. Sudan

Declension

    declension of Sudan

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