Save Type Country Usage English, Arabic, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Italian, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Slovene, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Indonesian, Malay, Chinese, Thai Scripts سُودان(Arabic) Судан(Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Bulgarian) 苏丹(Chinese) ซูดาน(Thai) Pronounced Pron. /suː.ˈdaːn/(Arabic) [key·simplify] Meaning & History From Arabic سُود (sud) meaning "black", referring to the darker skin of the inhabitants. This is the name of a country in Africa. In Arabic it is properly written with the definite article: السُودان (al-Sudan). Related NamesFamily Tree·Details Other Languages & CulturesSúdán(Czech) Soedan(Dutch) Soudan(French) Soudan(Greek) Sudão(Portuguese) Sudán(Slovak) Sudán(Spanish) Same SpellingSúdán, SudánUser SubmissionsSúdan, Sûdan Categories Africa, South-prefixed countries