سودان

Arabic

Noun

سُودَان • (sūdān) m pl

plural of أَسْوَد (ʔaswad)

Derived terms

السودان (as-sūdān, “Sudan”)

Descendants

→ English: Sudan
→ Italian: Sodano

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

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

Proper noun

سودان • (sudan)

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]
- (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

Vocalised Persian: سودان

Proper noun

سودان • (sudân)

Sudan (a country in North Africa and East Africa)