Jordan

See also: jordan

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Hebrew ירדן (yarden), Jordan (originally the river).

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(r)dən

Proper noun

Jordan (plural Jordans)

1. A country in the Middle East. Official name: Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
2. A river of the Middle East, mentioned in the Bible, 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 given 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.

Derived terms

• Jordanian
• Jordanesque
• Jordanianism
• Jordanianness

Translations

country

• Arabic: الأردن (ar) m (al-úrdun)
• Armenian: Հորդանան (Hordanan)
• Basque: Jordania (eu)
• Bavarian: Jordanien
• Bengali: জর্দান
• Breton: Jordania
• Catalan: Jordània (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 約旦, 约旦 (zh) (Yuēdàn)

• Czech: Jordánsko (cs) n
• Danish: Jordan (da)
• Dutch: Jordanië (nl)
• Esperanto: Jordanio
• 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: ירדן (Yardēn)
• Hungarian: Jordánia (hu)
• Icelandic: Jórdanía (is) f
• Interlingua: Jordania
• Italian: Giordania f
• Japanese: ヨルダン (Yorudan)
• Jèrriais: Jourdain m
• Kalenjin: Jodan
• Kamba: Jondani
• Kikuyu: Jordan

• Korean: 요르단 (ko) (Yoreudan)
• Latin: Iordania (la) f
• Latvian: Jordānija (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Jordanija (lt) f
• Luhya: Jordan
• Luo: Jordan
• Macedonian: Јордан (mk) m (Jórdan)
• Maltese: il-Ġurdan
• Marathi: जॉर्डन m (jǒrḍana)
• Meru: Jordan
• Navajo: Jóoʼdan
• Norwegian: Jordan (no)
• Polish: Jordania (pl) f
• Portuguese: Jordânia (pt) f
• Quechua: Hurdanya
• Romanian: Iordania f
• Russian: Иордания (ru) f (Iordánija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Јордан m

  Roman: Jordan (sh) m

• Sicilian: Giurdania f, Giordania f
• Slovene: Jordánija f
• Spanish: Jordania (es) f
• Swahili: Yordani (sw)
• Swedish: Jordanien (sv)
• Tatar: Jordan
• Turkish: Ürdün (tr)
• Volapük: Yordän (vo)

river

• Arabic: الأردن (ar) m (al-úrdun)
• Armenian: Հորդանան (Hordanan)
• Catalan: Jordà m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 約旦, 约旦 (zh) (Yuēdàn)

• Czech: Jordán (cs) m
• Danish: Jordan (da)
• Faroese: Jordan f
• Finnish: Jordan (fi)
• French: Jourdain (fr) m
• Georgian: იორდანე (iordane)
• German: Jordan (de) m
• Hebrew: ירדן (yarden)
• 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 (Jórdan)
• Maori: Hōrano
• Norwegian: Jordan (no)
• Portuguese: Jordão (pt) m
• Romanian: Iordan n
• Russian: Иордан (ru) m (Iordán), Ярдена f (Jardéna)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Јордан m

  Roman: Jordan (sh) m

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

male given name

• French: Jordan (fr)
• Hungarian: Jordán (hu)
• Italian: Giordano (it)

• Latvian: Džordans m
• Macedonian: Јордан (mk) (Jórdan)
• Marathi: जॉर्डन m (jǒrḍana)

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)

		singular	plural
nominative		Jordan	—
accusative	nom.?	Jordan	—
	gen.	Jordanin
genitive		Jordanin	—
partitive		Jordania	—
inessive		Jordanissa	—
elative		Jordanista	—
illative		Jordaniin	—
adessive		Jordanilla	—
ablative		Jordanilta	—
allative		Jordanilleˣ	—
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

Proper noun

Jordan

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

Related terms

• jordanar (Nynorsk)
• jordaner (Bokmål)
• jordansk (Bokmål), jordansk (Nynorsk)

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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