سودان

Arabic

Noun

سُودَان • (sūdān) m pl

  1. plural of أَسْوَد (ʔaswad)

Descendants
  • → English: Sudan
  • → Italian: Sodano

Ottoman Turkish
سودان

Etymology

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

Proper noun

سودان • (sudan)

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

Derived terms
  • سودانلی (sudanlı, “Sudanese”)
  • سودانی (sudanî, “Sudanese”)

Descendants

Further reading
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سودان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, 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, 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, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1088

Persian

Pronunciation
 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [suː.d̪ɑ́ːn]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [suː.d̪ɑ́ːn]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [su.d̪ɔ́ːn]

Readings
Classical reading? sūḏān
Dari reading? sūdān
Iranian reading? sudân
Tajik reading? sudon

Proper noun

سودان • (sudân)

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