Jordan

See also: jordan, jordán, Jordán, and Jórdan

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɔːdən/
• IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɔːɹdən/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(r)dən

Proper noun

Jordan (countable and uncountable, plural Jordans)

2. A country in the Middle East. Official name: Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
4. A river in the Middle East that empties into the Dead Sea, and after which the country is named.
5. 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.

6. derived from the male given name.
7. A female given name from Hebrew, of mid-20th century and later usage.
8. A small town, the county seat of Garfield County, Montana, United States.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Jordan block
• Jordan curve
• Jordanesque
• Jordanian

• Jordanianism
• Jordanianness
• Jordan matrix

Translations

country

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

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܝܪܕܢ

  Syriac: ܐܘܼܪܕܘܼܢ, ܐܘܖܖܘܢ (archaic)

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

  Mandarin: 約旦／约旦 (zh) (Yuēdàn), 约旦 (zh) (Yuēdàn)

• Crimean Tatar: Urdun
• Czech: Jordánsko (cs) n
• Danish: Jordan (da)
• Dhivehi: އުރުދުން (urudun̊)
• Dutch: Jordanië (nl) n
• Egyptian: yrdwnꜣ
• 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)
• Hausa: Jordan
• Hebrew: יַרְדֵּן (he) (yardén), מַמְלֶכֶת יַרְדֵּן f (mamlékhet yardén)
• Hindi: जॉर्डन (hi) (jŏrḍan), उर्दुन (urdun)
• Hungarian: Jordánia (hu)
• Icelandic: Jórdanía (is) f
• Ido: Jordania (io)
• Indonesian: Yordania (id)
• Interlingua: Jordania
• Irish: An Iordáin f, Ríocht Haisimíteach na hIordáine f
• Italian: Giordania (it) f
• Japanese: ヨルダン (ja) (Yorudan)
• Kabardian: Йорданиэ (Jordaniɛ), Йордан (Jordan)
• Kalenjin: Jodan
• Kamba: Jondani
• Kazakh: Иордания (İordaniä)
• Khmer: ហ៊្សកដានី (km) (zɔɔkdaanii)
• Kikuyu: Jordan
• Korean: 요르단 (Yoreudan)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji:

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• Kyrgyz: Иордания (ky) (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
• Manchu: ᡳᠣᡵᡩᠠᠩ (iordang)
• Maori: Hōrano
• Marathi: जॉर्डन m (jŏrḍan)
• Meru: Jordan
• Mongolian: Иордан (Iordan)
• Navajo: Jóoʼdan
• Nepali: उर्दुन (urduna)
• Norman: Jourdain m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Jordan (no)

  Nynorsk: Jordan (nn)

• Occitan: Jordania f
• 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: Јо̀рдан m

  Roman: Jòrdan (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 (tg) (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)
• Yoruba: Jọdani

river

• Arabic: اَلْأُرْدُن (ar) m (al-ʔurdun)
• Aramaic:

  Syriac: ܝܘܿܪܕܢܵܢ, ܝܘܖܖܢܢ (archaic)

• Armenian: Հորդանան (Hordanan)
• Catalan: Jordà m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 約旦／约旦 (zh) (Yuēdàn), 约旦 (zh) (Yuēdàn), 約旦河／约旦河 (zh) (Yuēdànhé), 约旦河 (zh) (Yuēdànhé)

• Czech: Jordán (cs) m
• Danish: Jordan (da)
• Dutch: Jordaan
• Estonian: Jordan (et)
• Faroese: Jordan f
• Finnish: Jordan (fi)
• French: Jourdain (fr) m
• Georgian: იორდანე (iordane)
• German: Jordan (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: Ἰορδάνης m (Iordánēs)

• Hebrew: יַרְדֵּן (he) (yardén)
• Hungarian: Jordán (hu)
• Icelandic: Jórdan f
• Ido: Jordan (io)
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• Irish: An Iordáin 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)
• Manchu: ᡳᠣᡵᡩᠠᠩ
  ᠪᡳᡵᠠ (iordang bira)
• Maori: Hōrano
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Jordan (no)

  Nynorsk: Jordan (nn)

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

  Cyrillic: Јо̀рдан m

  Roman: Jòrdan (sh) m

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

male given name

• Bulgarian: Йордан m (Jordan)
• Catalan: Jordà m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 喬丹／乔丹 (zh) (Qiáodān)

• Dutch: Jordaan m
• French: Jordan (fr), Jourdain (fr) m
• Hebrew: יַרְדֵּן (he) (yardén)
• Hungarian: Jordán (hu)
• Inuktitut: ᔪᐊᑕᓐ (yoatan)
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• Italian: Giordano (it)
• Latvian: Džordans m
• Macedonian: Јордан (mk) m (Jordan)
• Marathi: जॉर्डन m (jŏrḍan)
• Middle English: Judd
• Portuguese: Jordão (pt) m
• Russian: Джо́рдан (ru) m (Džórdan)
• Spanish: Jordán (es) m
• Ukrainian: Джо́рдан m (Džórdan)

See also

• Countries of the world

Anagrams

• Jardon

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Cebuano

Etymology

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

Proper noun

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

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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	—
abessive		Jordanitta	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of Jordan (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Jordanini — accusative nom. Jordanini — gen. Jordanini genitive Jordanini — partitive Jordaniani — inessive Jordanissani — elative Jordanistani — illative Jordaniini — adessive Jordanillani — ablative Jordaniltani — allative Jordanilleni — essive Jordaninani — translative Jordanikseni — abessive Jordanittani — instructive — — comitative — — second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Jordanisi — accusative nom. Jordanisi — gen. Jordanisi genitive Jordanisi — partitive Jordaniasi — inessive Jordanissasi — elative Jordanistasi — illative Jordaniisi — adessive Jordanillasi — ablative Jordaniltasi — allative Jordanillesi — essive Jordaninasi — translative Jordaniksesi — abessive Jordanittasi — instructive — — comitative — — first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Jordanimme — accusative nom. Jordanimme — gen. Jordanimme genitive Jordanimme — partitive Jordaniamme — inessive Jordanissamme — elative Jordanistamme — illative Jordaniimme — adessive Jordanillamme — ablative Jordaniltamme — allative Jordanillemme — essive Jordaninamme — translative Jordaniksemme — abessive Jordanittamme — instructive — — comitative — — second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Jordaninne — accusative nom. Jordaninne — gen. Jordaninne genitive Jordaninne — partitive Jordanianne — inessive Jordanissanne — elative Jordanistanne — illative Jordaniinne — adessive Jordanillanne — ablative Jordaniltanne — allative Jordanillenne — essive Jordaninanne — translative Jordaniksenne — abessive Jordanittanne — instructive — — comitative — — third-person possessor singular plural nominative Jordaninsa — accusative nom. Jordaninsa — gen. Jordaninsa genitive Jordaninsa — partitive Jordaniaan Jordaniansa — inessive Jordanissaan Jordanissansa — elative Jordanistaan Jordanistansa — illative Jordaniinsa — adessive Jordanillaan Jordanillansa — ablative Jordaniltaan Jordaniltansa — allative Jordanilleen Jordanillensa — essive Jordaninaan Jordaninansa — translative Jordanikseen Jordaniksensa — abessive Jordanittaan Jordanittansa — instructive — — comitative — —

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒɔʁ.dɑ̃/

Proper noun

Jordan ?

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Jordan.

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German

Proper noun

Jordan m (proper noun, strong, 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 c (genitive Jordans)

1. Jordan (river)

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Tatar

Proper noun

Jordan

1. Jordan (country)

References

• https://web.archive.org/web/20050112143207/http://www.azatliq.org/news/international/tb/archives/2005/01/06.ASP