Sudan.
Sudan; a country in Africa, in northeastern Africa, with Khartoum as its capital.
Meaning & usage
Sudan; a country in Africa, in northeastern Africa, with Khartoum as its capital.
Nilen renner gjennom Sudan fra sør til nord.
Sudan; a country in Africa, in northeastern Africa, with Khartoum as its capital. 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”).
Under Turkiya ble store deler av Sudan styrt fra Egypt.
Sudan; a country in Africa, in northeastern Africa, with Khartoum as its capital. Mahdist Sudan; the independent Islamic Mahdist State established by the followers of the Mahdi, from 1885 to 1898.
Sudan var under mahdistenes kontroll fram til nederlaget ved Omdurman i 1898.
Sudan; a country in Africa, in northeastern Africa, with Khartoum as its capital. Anglo-Egyptian Sudan; Sudan as a condominium jointly administered by the United Kingdom and Egypt, from 1899 to 1956.
Fra 1899 ble Sudan styrt som et britisk-egyptisk kondominat.
Sudan; a country in Africa, in northeastern Africa, with Khartoum as its capital. Republic of the Sudan; the independent republic from 1 January 1956 onward, including the territory that became South Sudan until 2011.
Sudan ble selvstendig i 1956, mens Sør-Sudan ble en egen stat i 2011.
Sudan; a region of 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.
I eldre geografisk litteratur kunne Sudan betegne et langt større område enn dagens stat.
Where this word comes from
Internationalism, based ultimately on Arabic سُودَان (sūdān, “black people”), a plural of أَسْوَد (ʔaswad, “black”), through the historical expression 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 Norwegian Nynorsk Sudan, Danish Sudan, Swedish Sudan, German Sudan and English Sudan.
Sudan; a minor city in Lamb County, Texas, United States.
Han vokste opp i Sudan i Texas.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from English Sudan (“Sudan, Texas”). The English place name was suggested in 1918 by P. E. Boesen, the local land-company manager and first postmaster. The reason for his choice of name is uncertain.
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