سودان

Arabic

Noun

سُودَان • (sūdān) m pl

1. plural of أَسْوَد (ʔaswad)

Derived terms

• السودان (as-sūdān, “Sudan”)

Descendants

• → English: Sudan
• → Italian: Sodano

Ottoman Turkish

سودان

Etymology

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

Proper noun

سودان • (sudan)

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

Derived terms

• سودانلی (sudanlı, “Sudanese”)
• سودانی (sudanî, “Sudanese”)

Descendants

• Turkish: Sudan

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “سودان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 697
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “سودان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 2701
• Moran, Ahmet Vahid (1924), “Sudan”, in A condensed dictionary, English–Turkish, Constantinople: Fratelli Haim, page 565b
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “سودان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1088

Persian

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /suː.ˈdaːn/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [suː.d̪ɑ́ːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [suː.d̪ɑ́ːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [suː.d̪ɑ́ːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [su.d̪ɔ́ːn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [suː.d̪ɒ́ːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [su.d̪ɔ́n]

Readings
Classical reading?	sūdān
Dari reading?	sūdān
Iranian reading?	sudân
Tajik reading?	sudon

Proper noun

سودان • (sūdān / sudân) (Tajik spelling Судон)

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