Sudan

See also: sudan, Sudán, Súdan, Súdán, sūdān, Sūdan, and sud-an

Emblem of Sudan

Sudan on a globe.

English

Alternative forms

• (country): Soudan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /suːˈdɑːn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /suˈdæn/, /suˈdɑn/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /sʉːˈdæn/, (rare) /sʉːˈdɐːn/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːn, -æn

Proper noun

Sudan or the Sudan (countable and uncountable, plural Sudans)

2. A country in North Africa and East Africa.

   Often used with the definite article "the".

   1. Turkish Sudan; autonym Turkiyyah; Sudan under the Eyalet of Egypt, from 1820 to 1885
   2. Mahdist State, also known as Mahdist Sudan or the Sudanese Mahdiyya, from 1885 to 1898
   3. Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, a condominium of the United Kingdom and Egypt from 1899 to 1955
   4. Republic of the Sudan, since 1955
3. A climatic zone characterized by savannas and mosaic forests running in a belt just south of the Sahel in West and East Africa
4. (historical) Mali (when it was under French colonial rule as Soudan).
5. A minor city in Lamb County, Texas, United States, apparently named after the African region.

Usage notes

• The country is traditionally referred to with the definite article the, though this construction has declined in use.

Derived terms

• Port Sudan
• Republic of South Sudan
• Southern Sudan
• South Sudan
• Sudan brown
• Sudanese (relating to the country)
• Sudanian (relating to the climatic region)

 

Translations

Republic of Sudan

• Afrikaans: Soedan
• Albanian: Sudan m, Sudani (sq) m (definite)
• Amharic: ሱዳን (sudan)
• Arabic: السُّودَان (ar) m (as-sūdān) (definite)
• Armenian: Սուդան (Sudan)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܣܘܼܕܵܢ f (sūdān)
• Azerbaijani: Sudan (az)
• Belarusian: Суда́н m (Sudán)
• Bengali: সুদান (bn) (śudan)
• Breton: Soudan
• Bulgarian: Суда́н m (Sudán)
• Burmese: ဆူဒန် (hcudan)
• Catalan: Sudan (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 蘇丹 / 苏丹 (sou¹ daan¹)

  Mandarin: 蘇丹 / 苏丹 (zh) (Sūdān)

• Czech: Súdán (cs) m
• Danish: Sudan (da) n
• Dhivehi: ސޫދާން (sūdān̊)
• Dinka: Thudän
• Dutch: Sudan (nl) n, Soedan (nl) n
• Esperanto: Sudano (eo)
• Estonian: Sudaan (et)
• Finnish: Sudan (fi)
• French: Soudan (fr) m
• Georgian: სუდანი (ka) (sudani)
• German: Sudan (de) m
• Greek: Σουδάν (el) n (Soudán)
• Gujarati: સુદાન (sudān)
• Hausa: Sudan
• Hebrew: סוּדָן (he) f (sudán)
• Hindi: सूडान (hi) m (sūḍān), सुदान (hi) m (sudān)
• Hungarian: Szudán (hu)
• Icelandic: Súdan (is) n
• Indonesian: Sudan (id)
• Interlingua: Sudan
• Irish: An tSúdáin f
• Italian: Sudan (it) m
• Japanese: スーダン (ja) (Sūdan)
• Kalenjin: Sudan
• Kamba: Sudan
• Kazakh: Судан (kk) (Sudan)
• Khmer: ស៊ូដង់ (km) (suudɑng)
• Kikuyu: Sudan
• Korean: 수단 (ko) (Sudan)
• Kyrgyz: Судан (ky) (Sudan)
• Lao: ຊູດານ (sū dān), ສູດັງ (sū dang), ຊູດັງ (sū dang)
• Latvian: Sudāna (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Sudanas (lt) m
• Luhya: Sudan
• Luo: Sudan
• Macedonian: Судан (mk) m (Sudan)
• Malay: Sudan (ms)
• Maltese: Is-Sudan m (definite)
• Maori: Hūtāne
• Marathi: सुदान m (sudān)
• Meru: Sudan
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Судан (Sudan)

• Navajo: Soodą́ą
• Norman: Soudan m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Sudan (no) n

  Nynorsk: Sudan (nn) n

• Ottoman Turkish: سودان (sudan)
• Pashto: سوډان (sūḍān)
• Persian:

  Dari: سُودَان (sūdān)

  Iranian Persian: سودان (sudân)

• Polish: Sudan (pl) m
• Portuguese: Sudão (pt) m
• Romanian: Sudan (ro) n
• Russian: Суда́н (ru) m (Sudán)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Су̀да̄н m

  Roman: Sùdān (sh) m

• Sinhalese: සූඩානය (sūḍānaya)
• Slovak: Sudán (sk) m
• Slovene: Sudan (sl) m
• Spanish: Sudán (es) m
• Swahili: Sudan (sw), Sudani (sw)
• Swedish: Sudan (sv) n
• Tagalog: Sudan (tl)
• Tajik: Судон (Sudon)
• Tamil: சூடான் (cūṭāṉ)
• Tatar: Судан (Sudan)
• Thai: ซูดาน (th) (suu-daan)
• Tigrinya: ሱዳን (sudan)
• Turkish: Sudan (tr)
• Turkmen: Sudan
• Ukrainian: Суда́н (uk) m (Sudán)
• Urdu: سُوڈان m (sūḍān), سُودان m (sūdān)
• Uyghur: سۇدان (ug) (sudan)
• Uzbek: Sudan (uz)
• Vietnamese: Xu-đăng
• Welsh: Swdan, Siwdan
• Yiddish: סודאַן (sudan)
• Yoruba: Sudani

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]}

Anagrams

• Duans, Sunda, duans, unsad

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [suˈðan]

• Audio (Valencia):

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• Rhymes: -an

Proper noun

Sudan m

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

Derived terms

• Sudan del Sud
• sudanès
• sudànic

 

Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Sudan

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

Danish

Proper noun

Sudan

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

Derived terms

• sudaner
• sudansk

Finnish

Etymology

From Arabic سُودَان (sūdān).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsudɑn/, [ˈs̠udɑ̝n]
• Rhymes: -udɑn
• Hyphenation^(key): Su‧dan

Proper noun

Sudan

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

Declension

Inflection of Sudan (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
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.

Possessive forms of Sudan (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Sudanini — accusative nom. Sudanini — gen. Sudanini genitive Sudanini — partitive Sudaniani — inessive Sudanissani — elative Sudanistani — illative Sudaniini — adessive Sudanillani — ablative Sudaniltani — allative Sudanilleni — essive Sudaninani — translative Sudanikseni — abessive Sudanittani — instructive — — comitative — — second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Sudanisi — accusative nom. Sudanisi — gen. Sudanisi genitive Sudanisi — partitive Sudaniasi — inessive Sudanissasi — elative Sudanistasi — illative Sudaniisi — adessive Sudanillasi — ablative Sudaniltasi — allative Sudanillesi — essive Sudaninasi — translative Sudaniksesi — abessive Sudanittasi — instructive — — comitative — — first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Sudanimme — accusative nom. Sudanimme — gen. Sudanimme genitive Sudanimme — partitive Sudaniamme — inessive Sudanissamme — elative Sudanistamme — illative Sudaniimme — adessive Sudanillamme — ablative Sudaniltamme — allative Sudanillemme — essive Sudaninamme — translative Sudaniksemme — abessive Sudanittamme — instructive — — comitative — — second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Sudaninne — accusative nom. Sudaninne — gen. Sudaninne genitive Sudaninne — partitive Sudanianne — inessive Sudanissanne — elative Sudanistanne — illative Sudaniinne — adessive Sudanillanne — ablative Sudaniltanne — allative Sudanillenne — essive Sudaninanne — translative Sudaniksenne — abessive Sudanittanne — instructive — — comitative — — third-person possessor singular plural nominative Sudaninsa — accusative nom. Sudaninsa — gen. Sudaninsa genitive Sudaninsa — partitive Sudaniaan Sudaniansa — inessive Sudanissaan Sudanissansa — elative Sudanistaan Sudanistansa — illative Sudaniinsa — adessive Sudanillaan Sudanillansa — ablative Sudaniltaan Sudaniltansa — allative Sudanilleen Sudanillensa — essive Sudaninaan Sudaninansa — translative Sudanikseen Sudaniksensa — abessive Sudanittaan Sudanittansa — instructive — — comitative — —

Derived terms

• sudanilainen

 

compounds

• Etelä-Sudan

 

Anagrams

• sadun, sunda

Gagauz

Proper noun

Sudan

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

German

Alternative forms

• Ssudan (archaic)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zuˈdaːn/
• IPA^(key): /suˈdaːn/ (learned)

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Su‧dan
• Rhymes: -aːn

Proper noun

Sudan m (proper noun, strong, genitive Sudans or Sudan, plural Sudan)

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

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1855, R. Nievergelt, Leitfaden der Geographie für Sekundarschulen, page 41:

     Die Ureinwohner sind Neger in Hochafrika und den beiden Sudan [...]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• Hochsudan
• Nordsudan
• Sudaner
• Sudanese
• sudanesisch
• sudanisch
• Südsudan

 

See also

• (countries of Africa) Staaten Afrikas; Ägypten, Algerien, Angola, Äquatorialguinea, Äthiopien, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Dschibuti, Elfenbeinküste, Eritrea, Eswatini, Gabun, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kamerun, Kap Verde, Kenia, Komoren, Demokratische Republik Kongo, Republik Kongo, Lesotho, Liberia, Libyen, Madagaskar, Malawi, Mali, Marokko, Mauretanien, Mauritius, Mosambik, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Ruanda, Sambia, São Tomé und Príncipe, Senegal, Seychellen, Sierra Leone, Simbabwe, Somalia, Südafrika, Sudan, Südsudan, Tansania, Togo, Tschad, Tunesien, Uganda, Zentralafrikanische Republik ^{(Category: de:Countries in Africa)}

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsu.dan/, (traditional) /suˈdan/
• Rhymes: -udan, (traditional) -an
• Hyphenation: Sù‧dan, (traditional) Su‧dàn

Proper noun

Sudan m

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

Derived terms

• sudanese

Anagrams

• snuda

Maltese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /suˈdaːn/

Proper noun

Is-Sudan m

1. Sudan (a country in North Africa and East Africa; official name: Repubblika tas-Sudan)

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Sudan

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

Related terms

• sudaner
• sudansk

See also

• Sør-Sudan

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Sudan

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

Related terms

• sudanar
• sudansk

See also

• Sør-Sudan

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سُودَان (sūdān).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsu.dan/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -udan
• Syllabification: Su‧dan

Proper noun

Sudan m inan (related adjective sudański)

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

Declension

Declension of Sudan

	singular
nominative	Sudan
genitive	Sudanu
dative	Sudanowi
accusative	Sudan
instrumental	Sudanem
locative	Sudanie
vocative	Sudanie

Derived terms

nouns

• Sudanka
• Sudańczyk

 

See also

• (countries of Africa) państwa Afryki; Algieria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Czad, Demokratyczna Republika Konga, Dżibuti, Egipt, Erytrea, Eswatini, Etiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Gwinea, Gwinea Bissau, Gwinea Równikowa, Kamerun, Kenia, Komory, Kongo, Lesotho, Liberia, Libia, Madagaskar, Malawi, Mali, Maroko, Mauretania, Mauritius, Mozambik, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Południowa Afryka, Republika Środkowoafrykańska, Republika Zielonego Przylądka, Rwanda, Sahara Zachodnia, Senegal, Seszele, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Sudan Południowy, Tanzania, Togo, Tunezja, Uganda, Wybrzeże Kości Słoniowej, Wyspy Świętego Tomasza i Książęca, Zambia, Zimbabwe ^{(Category: pl:Countries in Africa) [edit]}

Further reading

• Sudan in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Sudan in PWN's encyclopedia

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sǔdaːn/
• Hyphenation: Su‧dan

Proper noun

Sùdān m (Cyrillic spelling Су̀да̄н)

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

Declension

Declension of Sudan

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

Swahili

Alternative forms

• Sudani

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

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Proper noun

Sudan

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

Related terms

• Msudani

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]}

Swedish

Proper noun

Sudan n (genitive Sudans)

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

Related terms

• sudanes
• sudanesisk
• sudanesiska

See also

• Sydsudan

Further reading

• Sudan in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• Utrikes namnbok (12th ed., 2024)
• Svensk MeSH

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Sudán (“Sudan”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /suˈdan/ [sʊˈd̪an̪]
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: Su‧dan

Proper noun

Sudán (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜇᜈ᜔)

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

Anagrams

• Undas, undas

Turkish

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Sudan

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

Declension

Declension of Sudan

	singular
nominative	Sudan
accusative	Sudan'ı
dative	Sudan'a
locative	Sudan'da
ablative	Sudan'dan
genitive	Sudan'ın

    possessive of Sudan

	singular	plural
benim (my)	Sudan'ım	Sudanlarım / Sudan'larım
senin (your)	Sudan'ın	Sudanların / Sudan'ların
onun (his/her/its)	Sudan'ı	Sudanları / Sudan'ları
bizim (our)	Sudan'ımız	Sudanlarımız / Sudan'larımız
sizin (your)	Sudan'ınız	Sudanlarınız / Sudan'larınız
onların (their)	Sudan'ı / Sudanları / Sudan'ları	Sudanları / Sudan'ları

See also

• (countries of Africa) Afrika ülkesi; Angola, Batı Sahra, Benin, Botsvana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cezayir, Cibuti, Çad, Ekvator Ginesi, Eritre, Esvatini, Etiyopiya, Fas, Fildişi Sahili, Gabon, Gambiya, Gana, Gine, Gine-Bissau, Güney Afrika, Güney Sudan, Kamerun, Kenya, Komorlar, Kongo Cumhuriyeti, Kongo Demokratik Cumhuriyeti, Lesotho, Liberya, Libya, Madagaskar, Malavi, Mali, Mauritius, Mısır, Moritanya, Mozambik, Namibya, Nijer, Nijeria, Orta Afrika Cumhuriyeti, Ruanda, São Tomé ve Príncipe, Senegal, Seyşeller, Sierra Leone, Somali, Sudan, Tanzanya, Togo, Tunus, Uganda, Yeşil Burun, Zambiya, Zimbabve ^{(Category: tr:Countries in Africa) [edit]}