English Explanatory Dictionary

Sudan

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A country in North Africa and East Africa.
  2. Turkish Sudan; autonym Turkiyyah; Sudan under the Eyalet of Egypt, from 1820 to 1885
  3. Mahdist State, also known as Mahdist Sudan or the Sudanese Mahdiyya, from 1885 to 1898
  4. Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, a condominium of the United Kingdom and Egypt from 1899 to 1955
  5. Republic of the Sudan, since 1955
  6. A climatic zone characterized by savannas and mosaic forests running in a belt just south of the Sahel in West and East Africa
  7. Mali (when it was under French colonial rule as Soudan).
  8. A minor city in Lamb County, Texas, United States, apparently named after the African region.
noun
  1. A traditional Korean punch, made from boiled rice flour cakes and honeyed water, often consumed on holidays.

Pronunciation

/suːˈdɑːn/ /suːˈdæn/ /suˈdæn/ /suˈdɑn/ En-us-Sudan.ogg /sʉːˈdæn/ /sʉːˈdɐːn/ /sʉˈdan/

Word forms

Sudan the Sudan Sudans Soudan

Etymology

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

Related words

Countries of the world Darfur Kush Nubia South Sudan

Derived words

Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Port Sudan Republic of South Sudan Southern Sudan South Sudan Sudan brown Sudanese sudangrass Sudanian Sudanic Sudanism Sudanist Sudanization Sudanize sudanophilia

Translations

Afrikaans: Soedan Albanian: Sudan Albanian: Sudani Amharic: ሱዳን Arabic: السُّودَان Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܣܘܼܕܵܢ Armenian: Սուդան Asturian: Sudán Azerbaijani: Sudan Belarusian: Суда́н Bengali: সুদান Breton: Soudan Bulgarian: Суда́н Burmese: ဆူဒန် Catalan: Sudan Cherokee: ᏑᏕᏂ Chinese Cantonese: 蘇丹 /苏丹 Chinese Mandarin: 蘇丹 /苏丹 Czech: Súdán Danish: Sudan Dhivehi: ސޫދާން Dinka: Thudän Dutch: Sudan Dutch: Soedan Esperanto: Sudano Estonian: Sudaan Finnish: Sudan French: Soudan Fur: Sʉdân Georgian: სუდანი German: Sudan Greek: Σουδάν Gujarati: સુદાન Hausa: Sudan Hebrew: סוּדָן Hindi: सूडान Hindi: सुदान Hungarian: Szudán Icelandic: Súdan Indonesian: Sudan Interlingua: Sudan Irish: An tSúdáin Italian: Sudan
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