Sudanese
/suː.de.niːz/adjective, noun
Sudanese is an adjective meaning “Of, from, or pertaining to the country of Sudan, or the Sudanese people” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-U-D-A-N-E-S-E and has 3 syllables, and it appears 1.9 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does Sudanese mean?
adjective
- 1
Of, from, or pertaining to the country of Sudan, or the Sudanese people.
noun
- 1
A person from Sudan or of Sudanese descent.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce Sudanese?
- UK /suː.de.niːz/
Sudanese has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-Sudanese.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is Sudanese?
Sudanese appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 19,825th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Sudanese in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | soudanais, soudanaise , Soudanais, Soudanaise |
| German | sudanesisch , Sudanese, Sudanesin |
| Portuguese | sudanês |
| Spanish | sudanés , sudanesa |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does Sudanese come from?
From Sudan + -ese.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).