الأردن
Arabic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From جُنْد الْأُرْدُنّ (jund al-ʔurdunn), “the military district of Jordan”, probably straight out borrowed from the Aramaic isolect spoken there at the time, attested by the written Jewish Babylonian Aramaic and Jewish Literary Aramaic as יֹורְדְּנא (yordənā) and יַרְדְּנא (yardənā). Both forms give the present Arabic one regularly: The emphatic state ending was rendered by the Arabic article, and the distinction of the onset consonants /j/, /ʔ/ and /ʕ/ either had already little functional load, in the same fashion as the etyma of هُود (hūd), يَافُوخ (yāfūḵ), يَلَب (yalab), الْعِرَاق (al-ʕirāq) etc., or the onset يُـ (yu-) or the pattern of *يَرْدُن (*yardun) or *أَرْدُن (*ʔardun) in Arabic was hardly admissible and had to be regularized, that is classicized. See Hebrew יַרְדֵּן (yardén) for the ultimate derivation of the toponym.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]الْأُرْدُن or الْأُرْدُنّ • (al-ʔurdun or al-ʔurdunn) m
- Jordan (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East)
- الْأُرْدُنُ مُحَاطَةٌ مِنَ الشَّمَالِ بِسُورِيَا، مِنَ الْغَرْبِ بِفِلَسْطِينَ، وَمِنَ الشَّرْقِ بِالْعِرَاقِ، وَمِنَ الشَّرْقِ وَالْجَنُوبِ بِالْمَمْلَكَةِ الْعَرَبِيَّةِ السُّعُودِيَّةِ.
- al-ʔurdunu muḥāṭatun mina š-šamāli bisūriyā, mina l-ḡarbi bifilasṭīna, wamina š-šarqi bi-l-ʕirāqi, wamina š-šarqi wāljanūbi bi-l-mamlakati l-ʕarabiyyati s-suʕūdiyyati.
- Jordan is surrounded from the north by Syria, from the west by Palestine, from the east by Iraq, and from the east and south by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- Jordan (a river in Western Asia, in the Middle East, that empties into the Dead Sea, flowing through Israel, the Golan Heights, the West Bank and Jordan)
- 1967, “زَهْرَة الْمَدَائِن [Flower of Cities]”, Said Akl (lyrics), Rahbani brothers (music)[1]performed by Fairuz:
- وَسَتَغْسِلُ يَا نَهْرَ ٱلْأُرْدُنِ وَجْهِي بِمِيَاهٍ قُدْسِيَّة
وَسَتَمْحُو يَا نَهْرَ ٱلْأُرْدُنِ آثَارَ ٱلْقَدَمِ ٱلْهَمَجِيَّة- wasataḡsilu yā nahra l-ʔurduni wajhī bimiyāhin qudsiyya
wasatamḥū yā nahra l-ʔurduni ʔāṯāra l-qadami l-hamajiyya - And ye, o Jordan river, will wash my face with water of holiness;
And ye, o Jordan river, will erase the traces of the barbaric feet.
- wasataḡsilu yā nahra l-ʔurduni wajhī bimiyāhin qudsiyya
Declension
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Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
Informal | — | الْأُرْدُن; الْأُرْدُنّ al-ʔurdun; al-ʔurdunn |
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Nominative | — | الْأُرْدُنُ; الْأُرْدُنُّ al-ʔurdunu; al-ʔurdunnu |
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Accusative | — | الْأُرْدُنَ; الْأُرْدُنَّ al-ʔurduna; al-ʔurdunna |
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Genitive | — | الْأُرْدُنِ; الْأُرْدُنِّ al-ʔurduni; al-ʔurdunni |
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Derived terms
[edit]- أُرْدُنِيّ/أُرْدُنِّيّ (ʔurduniyy)
References
[edit]- Wehr, Hans (1979) “أردن”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
- “yrdn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
- “ywrdnn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
South Levantine Arabic
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Etymology
[edit]From Arabic الْأُرْدُنّ (al-ʔurdunn).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]الأردن • (il-ʔurdun) m
- Jordan (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East)
- Jordan (a river in Western Asia, in the Middle East, that empties into the Dead Sea, flowing through Israel, the Golan Heights, the West Bank and Jordan)
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[edit]- أردني (ʔurduni, “Jordanian”)
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