Soudan

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English

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Proper noun

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Soudan

  1. Archaic form of Sudan.: A country in North Africa and East Africa.
    • 1885 March, Ernest Belfort Bax, “Gordon and the Soudan”, in The Commonweal[1], volume 1, number 2, page 9:
      About February last year two figures were circling round the office of the Pall Mall Gazette, the one writing articles, the other being interviewed; they were those of the two ex-Governors of the Soudan, Sir Samuel Baker and General Gordon, then just returned from Brussels.

French

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /su.dɑ̃/
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Proper noun

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Soudan m

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

Norman

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Etymology

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Proper noun

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Soudan m

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