Sudan

sudan Sudán Súdan Súdán sūdān Sūdan sud-an English thumb|Emblem of Sudan thumb|Sudan on a globe. Alternative forms country en Soudan Etymology en ar سُودَان black people, plural of ar أَسْوَد.Sudan 7 July 2019 en ar س و د Pronunciation en /suːˈdɑːn/ /suːˈdæn/ RP en /sʉwˈdɑːn/ /sʉwˈdan/ SSB en /suˈdæn/ /suˈdɑn/ US en En-us-Sudan.ogg US /suˈdæn/ en /sʉːˈdæn/ /sʉːˈdɐːn/ rare AU,NZ en /sʉˈdan/ Scotland en ɑːn æn 2 Proper noun ~ s ~ en Q1049en country r/North Africa,East Africa. Often used with the definite article "the". Turkish Sudan; autonym en Turkiyyah; Sudan under the en eyalet Eyalet of Egypt, from 1820 to 1885 Mahdist State, also known as Mahdist Sudan or the Sudanese Mahdiyya, from 1885 to 1898 Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, a condominium of the United Kingdom and Egypt from 1899 to 1955 Republic of the Sudan, since 1955 Nimi Princewill Sudan’s army has captured the capital. Is it a turning point in the devastating conflict? https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/27/africa/sudans-army-captures-khartoum-from-rsf-intl 2025-03-27 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20251227050806/https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/27/africa/sudans-army-captures-khartoum-from-rsf-intl 27 December 2025 A climatic zone characterized by savannas and mosaic forests running in a belt just south of the Sahel in West and East Africa en historical Mali when it was under French colonial rule as Soudan. en minor city co/Lamb County s/Texas c/USA, apparently named after the African region. Usage notes The country is traditionally referred to with the definite article en the, though this construction has declined in use.Motschenbacher Heiko 2020 Greece, the Netherlands and (the) Ukraine: A Corpus-Based Study of Definite Article Use with Country Names A Journal of Onomastics 68 1 1–16 10.1080/00277738.2020.1731241 Derived terms en Anglo-Egyptian Sudan sudangrass Sudanic Sudanism Sudanist Sudanization Sudanize sudanophilia Port Sudan South Sudan Sudan grass Southern Sudan Republic of South Sudan Sudan brown Sudanese<qq:relating to the country> Sudanian<qq:relating to the climatic region> Translations Q1049 Republic of Sudan Afrikaans: af Soedan Albanian: sq Sudan m, sq Sudani m definite Amharic: am ሱዳን Arabic: ar السُّودَان m definite Aramaic: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: aii ܣܘܼܕܵܢ f Armenian: hy Սուդան Asturian: ast Sudán Azerbaijani: az Sudan Belarusian: be Суда́н m Bengali: bn সুদান Breton: br Soudan Bulgarian: bg Суда́н m Burmese: my ဆူဒန် Catalan: ca Sudan m Cherokee: chr ᏑᏕᏂ Chinese: Cantonese: yue 蘇丹 Mandarin: cmn 蘇丹 Sūdān Czech: cs Súdán m Danish: da Sudan n Dhivehi: dv ސޫދާން Dinka: din Thudän Dutch: nl Sudan n, nl Soedan n Esperanto: eo Sudano Estonian: et Sudaan Finnish: fi Sudan French: fr Soudan m Fur: fvr Sʉdân Georgian: ka სუდანი German: de Sudan m Greek: el Σουδάν n Gujarati: gu સુદાન Hausa: ha Sudan Hebrew: he סוּדָן f sudán Hindi: hi सूडान m, hi सुदान m Hungarian: hu Szudán Icelandic: is Súdan n Indonesian: id Sudan Interlingua: ia Sudan Irish: ga Súdáin f An tSúdáin Italian: it Sudan m Japanese: ja スーダン Sūdan Kalenjin: kln Sudan Kamba: kam Sudan Kazakh: kk Судан Khmer: km ស៊ូដង់ Kikuyu: ki Sudan Korean: ko ^수단 Kyrgyz: ky Судан Lao: lo ຊູດານ, lo ສູດັງ, lo ຊູດັງ Latvian: lv Sudāna f Lithuanian: lt Sudanas m Luhya: luy Sudan Luo: luo Sudan Macedonian: mk Судан m Malay: ms Sudan Maltese: mt Sudan m Is-Sudan definite Māori: mi Hūtāne Marathi: mr सुदान m Meru: mer Sudan Mongolian: Cyrillic: mn Судан Navajo: nv Soodą́ą Norman: nrf Soudan m Norwegian: Bokmål: nb Sudan Nynorsk: nn Sudan n Pashto: ps سوډان sūḍān Persian: Dari: prs سُودَان Iranian Persian: fa-ira سودان Polish: pl Sudan m Portuguese: pt Sudão m Romanian: ro Sudan n Russian: ru Суда́н m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh Су̀да̄н m Latin: sh Sùdān m Sinhalese: si සූඩානය Slovak: sk Sudán m Slovene: sl Sudan m Spanish: es Sudán m Swahili: sw Sudan, sw Sudani Swedish: sv Sudan n Tagalog: tl Sudan Tajik: tg Судон Tamil: ta சூடான் Tatar: tt Судан Thai: th ซูดาน Tibetan: bo སུའུ་ཏན། Tigrinya: ti ሱዳን Turkish: tr Sudan Ottoman Turkish: ota سودان sudan Turkmen: tk Sudan Ukrainian: uk Суда́н m Urdu: ur سُوڈان m, ur سُودان m Uyghur: ug سۇدان Uzbek: uz Sudan Vietnamese: vi Xu-đăng Welsh: cy Swdan, cy Siwdan Yiddish: yi סודאַן Yoruba: yo Sùdáànì See also Countries of the world en Darfur en Kush en Nubia en South Sudan References Anagrams en adnsu Duans Sunda duans unsad Catalan Etymology ca ar سُودَان black men, plural of ar أَسْوَد. ca ar س و د Pronunciation ca LL-Q7026 (cat)-Millars-Sudan.wav Valencia ca an 2 Proper noun m ca Sudan Q1049 Derived terms ca Sudan del Sud sudanès sudànic Central Nahuatl Proper noun nhn proper noun nhn Sudan Q1049 Danish da: Etymology From da ar سُودَان. Proper noun da proper noun da Sudan Q1049 Derived terms da sudaner da sudansk Finnish fi: Etymology From fi ar سُودَان. Pronunciation Proper noun fi Sudan Q1049 Declension sg Sudan a 0 Derived terms fi sudanilainen fi compounds Etelä-Sudan Anagrams fi adnsu sadun sunda Gagauz gag: Proper noun gag proper noun gag Sudan Q1049 German de: Alternative forms de Ssudan archaic Pronunciation de /zuˈdaːn/ de /suˈdaːn/ learned de De-Sudan.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) de Su dan de aːn 2 Proper noun m,(s),- de Sudan Q1049 de 1839 Fr. von Rougemont; Ch. H. Hugendubel Geographie des Menschen, ethnographisch, statistisch und historisch. Erster Band 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 [...] de 1855 R. Nievergelt Leitfaden der Geographie für Sekundarschulen 41 Die Ureinwohner sind Neger in Hochafrika und den beiden Sudan [...] Derived terms de Hochsudan Nordsudan Sudaner sudanesisch Sudanese sudanisch Südsudan See also Indonesian id: Etymology id ar سُودَان black people Pronunciation Proper noun id Sudan Q1049 en Sudan id geography a climatic zone characterized by savannas and mosaic forests running in a belt just south of the Sahel in West and East Africa id historical Mali (when it was under French colonial rule as Soudan). Noun Sudanese Adjective Sudanese Sudanian See also Further reading Italian it: Pronunciation Sùdan,#Sudàn<r:DiPI> Proper noun m it Sudan Q1049 Derived terms it sudanese References Anagrams it adnsu snuda Maltese mt: Pronunciation mt /suˈdaːn/ mt aːn 2 Proper noun proper noun m Is-Sudan mt Sudan Q1049 mt:Repubblika tas-Sudan See also Norwegian Bokmål no thumb|The flag of Sudan. thumb|Sudan in Africa. thumb|The pyramids of Meroë in Sudan. Etymology 1 nb, based ultimately on nb ar سُودَان black people, a plural of ar أَسْوَد black, through the historical expression ar بِلَاد السُّودَان (“land of the Black people”). The expression was used by medieval Arabic geographers for the region south of the Sahara, and the modern country takes its name from this older regional designation. Parallel international forms include nn Sudan, da Sudan, sv Sudan, de Sudan and en Sudan. Pronunciation nb /¹sʉˈdɑːn/ [sʉˈdɑ̀ːn] nb ɑːn 2 nb Su dan Proper noun nb proper noun Sudan; nb country cont/Africa Sudan, in northeastern Africa, with Khartoum as its capital. nb Nilen renner gjennom Sudan fra sør til nord. The Nile flows through Sudan from south to north. nb 10 December 2025 Fredrik Lyngås Pedersen Sudan Lille norske leksikon https://lille.snl.no/Sudan Sudan er et land som ligger nordøst i Afrika. Sudan is a country located in northeastern Africa. https://web.archive.org/web/20260811131014/https://lille.snl.no/Sudan 11 August 2026 nb historical Turco-Egyptian Sudan; Sudan under Egyptian rule within the Ottoman Empire, from 1820 to 1885, a period traditionally known in Sudan as the Turkiya (“Turkish rule”). nb Under Turkiya ble store deler av Sudan styrt fra Egypt. During the Turkiya, large parts of Sudan were ruled from Egypt. nb 1 April 2025 Merethe Skårås, Dag Leraand, Henriette Hafsaas and Alexandros Tsakos Sør-Sudans historie Store norske leksikon https://snl.no/S%C3%B8r-Sudans_historie Nord-Sudan ble fra 1820 erobret av det osmanske Egypt. Northern Sudan was conquered by Ottoman Egypt from 1820. nb historical Mahdist Sudan; the independent Islamic Mahdist State established by the followers of the Mahdi, from 1885 to 1898. nb Sudan var under mahdistenes kontroll fram til nederlaget ved Omdurman i 1898. Sudan was under Mahdist control until the defeat at Omdurman in 1898. nb 22 February 2025 Tore Linné Eriksen and Alexandros Tsakos Muhammad Ahmad ibn Abd Allah al-Mahdi Store norske leksikon https://snl.no/Muhammad_Ahmad_ibn_Abd_Allah_al-Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad ibn Abd Allah al-Mahdi var skaperen av en uavhengig muslimsk stat som inkluderte store deler av dagens Sudan. Muhammad Ahmad ibn Abd Allah al-Mahdi was the creator of an independent Muslim state that included large parts of present-day Sudan. nb historical Anglo-Egyptian Sudan; Sudan as a condominium jointly administered by the United Kingdom and Egypt, from 1899 to 1956. nb Fra 1899 ble Sudan styrt som et britisk-egyptisk kondominat. From 1899, Sudan was governed as a British-Egyptian condominium. nb kondominat Bokmålsordboka https://ordbokene.no/bm/31122 Sudan var et britisk-egyptisk kondominat. Sudan was a British-Egyptian condominium. Republic of the Sudan; the independent republic from 1 January 1956 onward, including the territory that became South Sudan until 2011. nb Sudan ble selvstendig i 1956, mens Sør-Sudan ble en egen stat i 2011. Sudan became independent in 1956, while South Sudan became a separate state in 2011. nb 26 November 2024 Lars Roede Sudans flagg og våpen Store norske leksikon https://snl.no/Sudans_flagg_og_v%C3%A5pen Da Sudan ble selvstendig i 1956, fikk det et flagg med fargene blått, gult og grønt. When Sudan became independent in 1956, it received a flag with the colors blue, yellow and green. https://web.archive.org/web/20260217001946/https://snl.no/Sudans_flagg_og_v%C3%A5pen 17 February 2026 nb geography Sudan; nb region cont/Africa, a broad historical and geographical region south of the Sahara, traditionally extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Red Sea in the east. nb I eldre geografisk litteratur kunne Sudan betegne et langt større område enn dagens stat. In older geographical literature, Sudan could denote a much larger region than the present-day country. nb 6 December 2020 Dag Leraand and Alexandros Tsakos Sudans historie Store norske leksikon https://snl.no/Sudans_historie Sudan kan også bli brukt om hele området sør for Saharaørkenen mellom Atlanterhavet i vest og Rødehavet i øst. Sudan can also be used for the whole area south of the Sahara Desert between the Atlantic Ocean in the west and the Red Sea in the east. Usage notes The official Norwegian Bokmål long-form name is Republikken Sudan (“the Republic of Sudan”).Navn på stater Språkrådet https://sprakradet.no/stedsnavn-og-navn-pa-statsorgan/navnelister-norsk-skrivemate/utanlandske-stadnamn-navn-pa-stater-og-sprak-transkripsjon/navn-pa-stater/ 11 August 2026 https://web.archive.org/web/20260925220913/https://sprakradet.no/stedsnavn-og-navn-pa-statsorgan/navnelister-norsk-skrivemate/utanlandske-stadnamn-navn-pa-stater-og-sprak-transkripsjon/navn-pa-stater/ 25 September 2026 Derived terms nb sudaner Sudanese person nb sudansk Sudanese Related terms nb Sør-Sudan South Sudan See also Etymology 2 nb en Sudan Sudan, Texas. The English place name was suggested in 1918 by P. E. Boesen, the local land-company manager and first postmaster.William R. Hunt Sudan, TX Handbook of Texas Online Texas State Historical Association https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/sudan-tx 11 August 2026 The reason for his choice of name is uncertain.Sudan, Texas Texas Escapes https://www.texasescapes.com/TexasPanhandleTowns/SudanTexas/SudanTexas.htm 11 August 2026 https://web.archive.org/web/20260812152403/https://www.texasescapes.com/TexasPanhandleTowns/SudanTexas/SudanTexas.htm 12 August 2026 thumb|A grain elevator in Sudan, Texas. Proper noun nb proper noun Sudan; nb minor city co/Lamb County s/Texas c/USA. nb Han vokste opp i Sudan i Texas. He grew up in Sudan, Texas. nb 17 February 2026 Sudan (Texas) Wikipedia https://no.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sudan_(Texas)&oldid=25641945 Sudan er en amerikansk by som ligger i Lamb County i Texas. Sudan is an American city located in Lamb County, Texas. Anagrams nb adnsu sunda References “Sudan” in Store norske leksikon. “Sudans historie” in Store norske leksikon. “Sudan” in Lille norske leksikon. Anagrams nb adnsu sunda References “Sudan” in Store norske leksikon. “Sudan” in Lille norske leksikon. “Sudan” in Online Etymology Dictionary. Norwegian Nynorsk nn: Proper noun nn proper noun nn Sudan Q1049 Related terms nn sudanar nn sudansk See also nn Sør-Sudan Polish pl: Etymology pl :bor ar:سُودَان + 1 Pronunciation Pl-Sudan.ogg Proper noun m-in sudański pl Sudan Q1049 Declension <m.inan.sg> Derived terms pl nouns Sudanka Sudańczyk See also Further reading pl exonyms Serbo-Croatian Pronunciation sh /sǔdaːn/ sh Su dan Proper noun Sùdān m-in sh Sudan Q1049 Declension Sùdān Sudána Sudanu Sudan Sudane Sudanu Sudanom Slovene Pronunciation Sudán Proper noun Sudán m-in sl Sudan Q1049 Declension Sudán sg Related terms sl Sudánec / sl Sudánka sl sudánski References Swahili Alternative forms sw Sudani Pronunciation sw Sw-ke-Sudan.flac Kenya Proper noun sw proper noun sw Sudan Q1049 Related terms sw Msudani See also Swedish sv: Proper noun n sv Sudan Q1049 Related terms sv sudanes sv sudanesisk sv sudanesiska See also sv Sydsudan Further reading 12 Svensk MeSH Tagalog Etymology tl :bor es:Sudán<t:Sudan> + 1 Pronunciation Sudán Proper noun Sudán + tl Sudan Q1049 Anagrams tl adnsu Undas undas Turkish tr: Pronunciation tr LL-Q256 (tur)-ToprakM-Sudan.wav Proper noun tr Sudan Q1049 Declension Sudan Sudan'ı Sudan'a Sudan'da Sudan'dan Sudan'ın See also