Kudu
cardinal direction (en) da points of the compass (en)
Bayanai
Hannun riga da	Arewa, Gabas da Yamma

Kudu tana daya daga cikin manyan kwatance ko wuraren kamfas . Kudu kishiyar arewa ce kuma tana kan gabas da yamma .

Kalmar kudu ta fito daga Tsohuwar Turanci sūþ, daga farkon Proto-Jamus *sunþaz ("kudu"), maiyuwa tana da alaka da tushen Proto-Indo-Turai guda daya wanda kalmar rana ta samo asali. Wasu harsuna suna siffanta kudu haka nan, daga cewa ita ce alkiblar rana da kuma tsakar rana (a Arewacin Hemisphere),^[1] kamar Latin meridies ' tsakar rana, kudu' (daga 'tsakiyar' + mutu' rana. ', cf English meridional), yayin da wasu ke kwatanta kudu a matsayin gefen dama na fitowar rana, kamar Ibrananci na Littafi Mai-Tsarki תֵּימָן teiman 'kudu' daga יָמִין yamin 'dama', Aramaic תַּימנַא taymna daga יָמִright' da kuma Syria daga ܝܰܡܝܺܢܳܐ yamina (saboda haka sunan Yemen, kasar kudu/dama na Levant^[2]).

Ta hanyar al'ada, gefen kasa na taswira yana kudu, Kodayake akwai taswirorin da aka juyar da su wadanda suka saba wa wannan yarjejeniya.^[3] Don zuwa kudu ta amfani da kamfas don kewayawa, saita mai daukar hoto ko azimuth na 180°. A madadin, a Arewacin Hemisphere a waje da wurare masu zafi, Rana zai kasance a kudu da tsakar rana.^[4]

Kudanci na gaskiya shine karshen axis wanda duniya ke juyawa game da shi, wanda ake kira Pole Kudu . Pole ta Kudu yana cikin Antarctica . Magnetic kudu shine alkibla zuwa kudu da sandar maganadisu, wani nisa nesa da sandar yankin kudu.^[5]

Roald Amundsen, daga Norway, shi ne mutum na farko da ya isa Pole ta Kudu, a ranar Sha hudu 14 ga watan Disamba shekarar dubu daya da dari tara da Sha daya 1911, bayan an tilasta wa Ernest Shackleton daga Birtaniya ya juya baya.^[6]

Kudancin Duniya yana nufin rabin kudancin duniya da ba shi da ci gaba a zamantakewa da tattalin arziki.kaahi cassa'in da biya 95% na Arewacin Duniya yana da isasshen abinci da matsuguni, da tsarin ilimi mai aiki.^[7]A Kudancin kasar kuwa, kashi 5% ne kawai na al’ummar kasar ke da isasshen abinci da matsuguni. "Ba ta da fasahar da ta dace, ba ta da kwanciyar hankali a siyasance, tattalin arzikin kasar ya wargaje, kuma kudaden da suke samu na musaya na kasashen waje ya dogara ne kan fitar da kayayyaki na farko".^[8]

Amfani da kalmar "Kudu" na iya zama dangi na kasa, musamman a yanayin rarrabuwar kawuna na tattalin arziki ko al'adu. Misali, Kudancin Amurka, wanda ya rabu da Arewa maso Gabashin Amurka ta hanyar layin Mason – Dixon, ko kuma Kudancin Ingila, wanda siyasa da tattalin arziki ba ta yi daidai da Arewacin Ingila ba .

Southern Cone shine sunan da aka fi sani da yankin kudancin Amurka ta Kudu wanda, a cikin nau'i na "mazugi" mai juyayi, kusan kamar babban yanki, ya gunshi Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay da dukan Kudancin Brazil . Jihohin Brazil na Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Paraná da São Paulo ). Da wuya ma'anar ta fadada zuwa Bolivia, kuma a cikin mafi kuntataccen ma'anar shi kawai ya shafi Chile, Argentina da Uruguay .

An yi wa kasar Afirka ta Kudu suna saboda wurin da take a kudancin Afirka. Bayan kafuwar kasar an sanya wa suna Tarayyar Afirka ta Kudu a Turanci, wanda ke nuni da asalinta daga hadewar wasu yankuna hudu na Birtaniya da a da. Ostiraliya ta samo sunanta daga Latin Terra Australis ("kasa ta Kudu"), sunan da ake amfani da shi don nahiya mai hasashe a Kudancin kasar tun zamanin da.^[9]

A cikin gadar wasan katin, daya daga cikin 'yan wasan da aka sani da zira kwallaye dalilai a matsayin Kudu. Kudu ta hada kai da Arewa kuma tana karawa da Gabas da Yamma.

A cikin addinin Hellenanci, Notos, ita ce iskar kudu kuma mai kawo guguwar karshen bazara da kaka.

1. ↑ https://www.myopencountry.com/how-to-use-a-compass/
2. ↑ https://www.etymonline.com/word/yemen
3. ↑ https://www.flourish.org/upsidedownmap/
4. ↑ https://www.myopencountry.com/how-to-use-a-compass/
5. ↑ https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geomag/faqgeom.shtml
6. ↑ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/ice/peopleevents/pandeAMEX87.html/
7. ↑ Mimiko, Oluwafemi (2012). Globalization: The Politics of Global Economic Relations and International Business. Carolina Academic. p. 47.
8. ↑ Mimiko, Oluwafemi (2012). Globalization: The Politics of Global Economic Relations and International Business. Carolina Academic. p. 47.
9. ↑ https://www.worldcat.org/title/official-encyclopedia-of-bridge/oclc/49606900