Soudan

See also: soudan

English

Proper noun

Soudan

1. Archaic form of Sudan.: A country in North Africa and East Africa.
   • 1885 March, Ernest Belfort Bax, “Gordon and the Soudan”, in The Commonweal‎^[1], volume 1, number 2, page 9:

     About February last year two figures were circling round the office of the Pall Mall Gazette, the one writing articles, the other being interviewed; they were those of the two ex-Governors of the Soudan, Sir Samuel Baker and General Gordon, then just returned from Brussels.

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su.dɑ̃/

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Proper noun

Soudan m

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

Norman

Etymology

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Proper noun

Soudan m

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