Sudan

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -æn

Proper noun

Sudan

1. Country in Northeast Africa. Official name: Republic of the 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. (historical) Mali (when it was under French colonial rule as 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)
• Breton: Soudan (br)
• Bulgarian: Судан (bg) (Sudán) m
• Catalan: Sudan (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蘇丹 (cmn), 苏丹 (cmn) (Sūdān)

• Czech: Súdán (cs) m
• Danish: Sudan (da)
• Dutch: Sudan (nl), Soedan (nl)
• Esperanto: Sudano (eo)
• 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 (ia)
• 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 (mt)
• 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
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Судан (sh) m

  Roman: Sudan (sh) 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 (cy), Siwdan (cy)

See also

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

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Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /suˈðan/, X-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 – –

Derived terms

• Etelä-Sudan
• sudanilainen

Anagrams

• sadun, sunda

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German

Wikipedia ^de

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aːn

Proper noun

Sudan m

1. Sudan

Derived terms

• sudanesisch
• Sudanese
• Sudanesin

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Italian

Wikipedia ^it

Proper noun

Sudan

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/

• audio

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Proper noun

Sudan m

1. Sudan

Declension

    declension of Sudan

	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

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Turkish

Proper noun

Sudan

1. Sudan