Sudan

• (country): Soudan

Derived from Arabic سُودَان (sūdān, “black people”), plural of أَسْوَد (ʔaswad).^[1]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /suːˈdɑːn/, /suːˈdæn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /suˈdæn/, /suˈdɑn/

  • Audio (US); /suˈdæn/:

    (file)

• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /sʉːˈdæn/, (rare) /sʉːˈdɐːn/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /sʉˈdan/
• Rhymes: -ɑːn, -æn

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
      • 2025 March 27, Nimi Princewill, “Sudan’s army has captured the capital. Is it a turning point in the devastating conflict?”, in CNN‎^[1]:

        But while the capture of Khartoum marks an important moment in the conflict, with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) deeply embedded elsewhere in Sudan and attempting to form a parallel government, analysts warn there is little likelihood of a swift resolution to the war.

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.

• The country is traditionally referred to with the definite article the, though this construction has declined in use.^[2]

• Countries of the world
• Darfur
• Kush
• Nubia
• South Sudan

• Duans, Sunda, duans, unsad

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

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

• Audio (Valencia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -an

Sudan m

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

Sudan

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

From Arabic سُودَان (sūdān).

Sudan

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

• sudaner
• sudansk

From Arabic سُودَان (sūdān).

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

Sudan

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

• sadun, sunda

Sudan

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

• Ssudan (archaic)

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

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Su‧dan
• Rhymes: -aːn

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)

• IPA^(key): /ˈsu.dan/, (traditional) /suˈdan/^[1]
• Rhymes: -udan, (traditional) -an
• Hyphenation: Sù‧dan, (traditional) Su‧dàn

Sudan m

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

• sudanese

• snuda

• IPA^(key): /suˈdaːn/

Is-Sudan m

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

Sudan

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

• sudaner
• sudansk

• Sør-Sudan

Sudan

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

• sudanar
• sudansk

• Sør-Sudan

Borrowed from Arabic سُودَان (sūdān).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsu.dan/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -udan
• Syllabification: Su‧dan

Sudan m inan (related adjective sudański)

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

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

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

Sùdān m inan (Cyrillic spelling Су̀да̄н)

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

• IPA^(key): /sudàːn/

Sudán m inan

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

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nominative	Sudán
genitive	Sudána
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Sudán
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Sudána
dative (dajȃlnik)	Sudánu
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Sudán
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Sudánu
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Sudánom

• Sudánec / Sudánka
• sudánski

• “Sudan”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “Sudan”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

• Sudani

• Audio (Kenya):

  (file)

Sudan

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

• Msudani

Sudan n (genitive Sudans)

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

• sudanes
• sudanesisk
• sudanesiska

• Sydsudan

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

Borrowed from Spanish Sudán (“Sudan”).

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

Sudán (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜇᜈ᜔)

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

• Undas, undas

• Audio:

  (file)

Sudan

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