Jordan

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See also: jordan, jordán, Jordán, and Jórdan

English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Latin Iordanēs, from Ancient Greek Ἰορδάνης (Iordánēs), from Biblical Hebrew יַרְדֵּן‎ (yardén, “Jordan (river)”). Doublet of Yarden.

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Jordan (countable and uncountable, plural Jordans)

  1. A placename
    2. A river in the Middle East that empties into the Dead Sea.
    4. A country in the Middle East. Official name: Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan; named after the river.
      • 2011 [January 1, 1978], Carter, Jimmy, White House Diary‎[1], →ISBN, LCCN 2010015544, OCLC 712116640, page 159:
        Early the next morning I met with King Hussein of Jordan and then drove to the airport with the shah. All three of us agreed that we ought to give Sadat our support, and on the basis for a Middle East peace.
    5. The name of other rivers around the world, listed under Jordan River (disambiguation).
    6. A number of places in the United States:
      1. An unincorporated community in Washington Township, Daviess County, Indiana.
      2. An unincorporated community in Morgan Township, Owen County, Indiana.
      3. An unincorporated community in Boone County, Iowa.
      4. An unincorporated community in Fulton County, Kentucky.
      5. A city in Scott County, Minnesota.
      6. A neighbourhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
      7. An unincorporated community in Hickory County, Missouri.
      8. A small town, the county seat of Garfield County, Montana.
      9. A village in Onondaga County, New York.
      10. An unincorporated community in Johnston County, North Carolina.
      11. An unincorporated community in Linn County, Oregon.
      12. A town in Green County, Wisconsin.
      13. An unincorporated community in Hull, Portage County, Wisconsin.
      14. A number of townships in the United States, listed under Jordan Township.
    7. A community in Lincoln, Regional Municipality of Niagara, Ontario, Canada.
    8. A small suburb of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK4092). [1]
    9. An urban area of Kowloon, Hong Kong.
    10. A municipality, the capital of Guimaras province, Philippines.
  2. A unisex given name from Hebrew
    1. A male given name from Hebrew; in the Middle Ages given to children baptized with Jordan water brought by crusaders.
      • 1989 Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry, Grove Press 1998, →ISBN, 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.
    2. A female given name from Hebrew, of mid-20th century and later usage.
  3. A surname transferred from the given name derived from the male given name.

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  1. ^ Ordnance Survey

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Cebuano[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin Iordanes, from Ancient Greek Ἰορδάνης (Iordánēs), from Biblical Hebrew יַרְדֵּן‎ (yardén, “Jordan (river)”). The given name is from Michael Jordan.

Proper noun[edit]

Jordan

  1. Michael Jordan
  2. a male given name transferred from the surname
  3. Jordan; a country in the Middle East
  4. the Jordan River

Danish[edit]

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Jordan

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

Finnish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin Iordanēs.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈjordɑn/, [ˈjo̞rdɑn]
  • Rhymes: -ordɑn
  • Syllabification(key): Jor‧dan

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Jordan

  1. Jordan (river)

Declension[edit]

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 — —
Possessive forms of Jordan (type risti)
possessor singular plural
1st person Jordanini Jordanimme
2nd person Jordanisi Jordaninne
3rd person Jordaninsa

French[edit]

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Jordan m

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Jordan

German[edit]

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der Jordan m (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Jordan or des Jordans)

  1. Jordan (a river in Israel, the Golan Heights, the West Bank and Jordan)

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology[edit]

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

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Jordan

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

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Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Etymology[edit]

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

Proper noun[edit]

Jordan

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

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Occitan[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

Jordan m

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Jordan

Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

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

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Jòrdan m (Cyrillic spelling Јо̀рдан)

  1. Jordan (country, river)

Declension[edit]

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

Swahili[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

Jordan

  1. Jordan (a country in the Middle East, Asia)
    Synonym: Yordani

Swedish[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

Jordan c (genitive Jordans)

  1. Jordan (river)

Tatar[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

Jordan

  1. Jordan (country)

References[edit]

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