Jordan

See also: jordan, jordán, Jordán, and Jórdan

English

Etymology

From Latin Jordanus, from Ancient Greek Ἰορδάνης (Iordánēs), from Biblical Hebrew יַרְדֵּן (yardén, “Jordan (river)”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɔːdən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɔːɹdən/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(r)dən

Proper noun

Jordan (countable and uncountable, plural Jordans)

1. A country in the Middle East. Official name: Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
2. A river of the Middle East that empties into the Dead Sea, and after which the country is named.
3. A male given name; in the Middle Ages given to children baptized with Jordan water brought by crusaders.
   • 1989 Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry, Grove Press 1998, ISBN 0802135781, pages 3-4:

     I call him Jordan and it will do. He has no other name before or after. What was there to call him, fished as he was from the stinking Thames? A child can't be called Thames, no and not Nile either, for all his likeness to Moses. But I wanted to give him a river name, a name not bound to anything, just as the waters aren't bound to anything.

4. A surname​ derived from the male given name.
5. A female given name used since mid-20th century.
6. a small town in Montana, USA, and the county seat of Garfield County.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Jordan block
• Jordan curve
• Jordanesque
• Jordanian

• Jordanianism
• Jordanianness
• Jordan matrix

Translations

country

• Abkhaz: Иорданиа (Iordāniā)
• Adyghe: Иордание (Iordānie)
• Afrikaans: Jordanië
• Albanian: Jordani (sq) f, Jordania f (definite)
• Amharic: ዮርዳኖስ (yordanos)
• Arabic: الْأُرْدُنّ‎ (ar) m (al-ʾurdunn)
• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܝܪܕܢ‎

• Armenian: Հորդանան (Hordanan)
• Azeri: İordaniya (az)
• Bashkir: Иордания (Iordaniya)
• Basque: Jordania (eu)
• Bavarian: Jordanien
• Belarusian: Іарда́нія f (Iardánija)
• Bengali: জর্দান (jôrdan)
• Breton: Jordania
• Bulgarian: Йорда́ния (bg) f (Jordánija)
• Burmese: ဂျော်ဒန် (gyaudan)
• Catalan: Jordània (ca) f
• Chechen: Иордани (Iordani), Урдан (Urdan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 約旦 (zh), 约旦 (zh) (Yuēdàn)

• Crimean Tatar: Urdun
• Czech: Jordánsko (cs) n
• Danish: Jordan (da)
• Dhivehi: އުރުދުން‎ (urudun)
• Dutch: Jordanië (nl) n
• Esperanto: Jordanio (eo)
• Estonian: Jordaania (et)
• Faroese: Jordan n
• Finnish: Jordania (fi)
• French: Jordanie (fr) f
• Galician: Xordania (gl) f
• Georgian: იორდანია (iordania)
• German: Jordanien (de) n
• Greek: Ιορδανία (el) f (Iordanía)
• Hebrew: יַרְדֵּן‎ (he) (yardén), מַמְלֶכֶת יַרְדֵּן‎ f (mamlékhet yardén)
• Hindi: जॉर्डन (hi) (jŏrḍan), उर्दुन (urdun)
• Hungarian: Jordánia (hu)
• Icelandic: Jórdanía (is) f
• Indonesian: Yordania (id)
• Interlingua: Jordania
• Irish: An Iordáin f
• Italian: Giordania (it) f
• Japanese: ヨルダン (ja) (Yorudan)
• Kabardian: Йорданиэ (Jordāniă), Йордан (Jordān)
• Kalenjin: Jodan
• Kamba: Jondani
• Kazakh: Иордания (Ïordanïya)
• Kikuyu: Jordan
• Korean: 요르단 (Yoreudan)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: Erden (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Иордания (İordaniya)
• Lao: ຈໍແດນ (chǭ dǣn), ຊອັກດະນີ
• Latin: Iordania (la) f
• Latvian: Jordānija f
• Lithuanian: Jordanija (lt) f
• Luhya: Jordan
• Luo: Jordan
• Macedonian: Јордан (mk) m (Jordan)
• Malay: Jordan
• Maltese: il-Ġurdan
• Marathi: जॉर्डन m (jŏrḍan)
• Meru: Jordan
• Mongolian: Иордан (Iordan)
• Navajo: Jóoʼdan
• Nepali: उर्दुन (urduna)
• Norman: Jourdain m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Jordan (no)

  Nynorsk: Jordan (nn)

• Ossetian: Иордани (Iordani)
• Pashto: اردن‎ (urdun)
• Persian: اردن‎ (fa) (ordon)
• Polish: Jordania (pl) f
• Portuguese: Jordânia (pt) f
• Quechua: Hurdanya
• Romanian: Iordania (ro) f
• Russian: Иорда́ния (ru) f (Iordánija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Јордан m

  Roman: Jordan (sh) m

• Sicilian: Giurdania f, Giordania f
• Sinhalese: ජෝර්දානය (jōrdānaya)
• Slovak: Jordánsko (sk) n
• Slovene: Jordánija (sl) f
• Spanish: Jordania (es) f
• Swahili: Yordani (sw)
• Swedish: Jordanien (sv)
• Tagalog: Hordan
• Tajik: Урдун (Urdun)
• Tatar: Үрдүн (Ürdün)
• Thai: จอร์แดน (th) (jɔɔ-dɛɛn)
• Tibetan: རྗོར་ཌན (rjor ḍan)
• Turkish: Ürdün (tr)
• Turkmen: Iordaniýa
• Ukrainian: Йорда́нія (uk) f (Jordánija)
• Urdu: اردن‎ (urdun), جورڈن‎ (jorḍan)
• Uyghur: ئىئوردانىيە‎ (i'ordaniye)
• Uzbek: Iordaniya (uz)
• Vietnamese: Gioóc-đa-ni, Gióc-đa-ni
• Volapük: Yordän (vo)
• Yiddish: יאָרדאַניע‎ (yordanye)

river

• Arabic: اَلْأُرْدُن‎ (ar) m (al-ʾurdun)
• Armenian: Հորդանան (Hordanan)
• Catalan: Jordà m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 約旦 (zh), 约旦 (zh) (Yuēdàn)

• Czech: Jordán (cs) m
• Danish: Jordan (da)
• Estonian: Jordan (et)
• Faroese: Jordan f
• Finnish: Jordan (fi)
• French: Jourdain (fr) m
• Georgian: იორდანე (iordane)
• German: Jordan (de) m
• Hebrew: יַרְדֵּן‎ (he) (yardén)
• Hungarian: Jordán (hu)
• Icelandic: Jórdan f
• Italian: Giordano (it) m
• Japanese: ヨルダン川 (Yorudan-gawa)

• Latin: Iordanus m
• Latvian: Jordāna f
• Lithuanian: Jordanas
• Macedonian: Јордан (mk) m (Jordan)
• Maori: Hōrano
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Jordan (no)

  Nynorsk: Jordan (nn)

• Polish: Jordan (pl) m
• Portuguese: Jordão (pt) m
• Romanian: Iordan n
• Russian: Иорда́н (ru) m (Iordán), Ярде́на f (Jardɛ́na)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Јордан m

  Roman: Jordan (sh) m

• Spanish: Jordán (es) m
• Swedish: Jordan (sv)

male given name

• French: Jordan (fr)
• Hebrew: יַרְדֵּן‎ (he) (yardén)
• Hungarian: Jordán (hu)
• Inuktitut: ᔪᐊᑕᓐ (juatan)

• Italian: Giordano (it)
• Latvian: Džordans m
• Macedonian: Јордан (mk) m (Jordan)
• Marathi: जॉर्डन m (jŏrḍan)

See also

• Countries of the world

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Danish

Proper noun

Jordan

1. Jordan (country)
2. Jordan (river)

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Finnish

Proper noun

Jordan

1. Jordan (river)

Declension

Inflection of Jordan (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		Jordan	—
genitive		Jordanin	—
partitive		Jordania	—
illative		Jordaniin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Jordan	—
accusative	nom.	Jordan	—
	gen.	Jordanin
genitive		Jordanin	—
partitive		Jordania	—
inessive		Jordanissa	—
elative		Jordanista	—
illative		Jordaniin	—
adessive		Jordanilla	—
ablative		Jordanilta	—
allative		Jordanille	—
essive		Jordanina	—
translative		Jordaniksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Jordanitta	—
comitative		—	—

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French

Proper noun

Jordan

1. A male given name, cognate to English Jordan.

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German

Proper noun

Jordan m (genitive Jordans)

1. Jordan (river)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Hebrew יַרְדֵּן (yardén), and Arabic الأردن (“al-'urdunn”)

Proper noun

Jordan

1. Jordan (country)
2. Jordan (river)

Related terms

• jordaner
• jordansk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Hebrew יַרְדֵּן (yardén), and Arabic الأردن (“al-'urdunn”)

Proper noun

Jordan

1. Jordan (country)
2. Jordan (river)

Related terms

• jordanar
• jordansk

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jǒrdan/
• Hyphenation: Jor‧dan

Proper noun

Jòrdan m (Cyrillic spelling Јо̀рдан)

1. Jordan (country, river)

Declension

Declension of Jordan

	singular
nominative	Jordan
genitive	Jordana
dative	Jordanu
accusative	Jordan
vocative	Jordane
locative	Jordanu
instrumental	Jordanom

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Swedish

Proper noun

Jordan

1. Jordan (river)

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Tatar

Proper noun

Jordan

1. Jordan (country)

References

• http://www.azatliq.org/news/international/tb/archives/2005/01/06.asp