Sudan
English
/suːˈdɑːn/, /suˈdæn/
proper noun
Definitions
- Country in Northeast Africa
- A climatic zone characterized by savannas and mosaic forests running in a belt just south of the Sahel in West and East Africa
- (historical) Mali when it was under French colonial rule as Soudan.
Etymology
Derived from Arabic سُودَان (black people).
Origin
Arabic
سُودَان
Gloss
black people
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Sudanese English
- Sudaneseness English
- Sudanian English
- Sudanic English
- Sudanism English
- Sudanist English
- Sudanization English
- Sudanize English
- grass English
- sudangrass English
- sudanophilia English
- Soudan French
- Sudán Spanish, Castilian
- Súdáin Irish
- سُودَان Arabic
- ซูดาน Thai