Sudan
English
Etymology
From Arabic سُودَان (sūdān, “black people”), plural of أَسْوَد (ʔaswad).[1]
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Sudan (plural Sudans)
- Country in Northeast Africa
- Often used with the definite article "the".
- Turkish Sudan; autonym Turkiyyah; Sudan under the Eyalet of Egypt, from 1820 to 1885
- Mahdist State, also known as Mahdist Sudan or the Sudanese Mahdiyya, from 1885 to 1898
- Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, a condominium of the United Kingdom and Egypt from 1899 to 1955
- Republic of the Sudan, since 1955
- A climatic zone characterized by savannas and mosaic forests running in a belt just south of the Sahel in West and East Africa
- (historical) Mali (when it was under French colonial rule as Soudan).
Derived terms
- Southern Sudan
- South Sudan
- Sudanese (relating to the country)
- Sudanian (relating to the climatic region)
Translations
Republic of Sudan
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See also
- Countries of the world
- Darfur
- Kush
- Nubia
- South Sudan
- (countries of Africa) countries of Africa; Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe (Category: en:Countries in Africa) [edit]
References
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “Sudan”, in Online Etymology Dictionary, retrieved 7 July 2019.
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
From Arabic أَسْوَد (ʔaswad, “black man”), plural سُودَان (sūdān).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Sudan m
Derived terms
Finnish
Proper noun
Sudan
Declension
Inflection of Sudan (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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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. |
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Derived terms
Anagrams
German
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Sudan m (genitive Sudan or Sudans, plural Sudan)
- Sudan
- 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 [...]
- 1855, R. Nievergelt, Leitfaden der Geographie für Sekundarschulen, page 41:
- Die Ureinwohner sind Neger in Hochafrika und den beiden Sudan [...]
- 1839, Fr. von Rougemont, Ch. H. Hugendubel, Geographie des Menschen, ethnographisch, statistisch und historisch. Erster Band, page 28:
Derived terms
Italian
Proper noun
Sudan m
Derived terms
Norwegian Bokmål
Proper noun
Sudan
Related terms
See also
Norwegian Nynorsk
Proper noun
Sudan
Related terms
See also
Polish
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Sudan m
Declension
Declension of Sudan
Derived terms
Further reading
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Sùdān m (Cyrillic spelling Су̀да̄н)
Declension
Declension of Sudan
Swahili
Alternative forms
Proper noun
Sudan
Related terms
See also
- (countries of Africa) nchi za Afrika; Algeria or Aljeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Kamerun or Cameroon or Kameruni, Jamhuri ya Afrika ya Kati, Chad or Chadi, Komori or Visiwa vya Ngazija, Cote d'Ivoire or Kodivaa, Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo or Kongo-Kinshasa, Jibuti or Djibouti, Misri or Umisri, Guinea ya Ikweta or Ginekweta, Eritrea, Ethiopia or Uhabeshi or Habeshi, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea or Gine or Gini, Guinea Bisau or Guinea-Bisau or Ginebisau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagaska or Bukini, Malawi or Unyasa, Mali, Mauritania, Morisi, Mayotte, Moroko or Maroko, Msumbiji or Mozambik, Namibia, Niger or Nijeri, Nigeria or Nijeria or Naijeria, Jamhuri ya Kongo or Kongo-Brazzaville, Réunion, Rwanda or Ruanda, Mtakatifu Helena, Sao Tome na Principe, Senegal or Senegali, Shelisheli, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Afrika Kusini, Sudan Kusini, Sudan, Uswazi or Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Sahara ya Magharibi, Zambia, Zimbabwe (Category: sw:Countries in Africa) [edit]
Tagalog
Etymology
Proper noun
Sudán
Turkish
Proper noun
Sudan
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