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单词 Jordan
释义

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)”). Doublet of Yarden.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɔːdən/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɔɹdən/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dən

Proper noun

Jordan (countable and uncountable, plural Jordans)

  1. A placename
    1. A river in the Middle East that empties into the Dead Sea.
    2. 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, →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.
    3. The name of other rivers around the world, listed under Jordan River (disambiguation).
    4. A number of places in the United States:
      1. An unincorporatedcommunity in Washington Township, Daviess County, Indiana.
      2. An unincorporatedcommunity in Morgan Township, Owen County, Indiana.
      3. An unincorporatedcommunity in Boone County, Iowa.
      4. An unincorporatedcommunity in Fulton County, Kentucky.
      5. A city in Scott County, Minnesota.
      6. A neighbourhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
      7. An unincorporatedcommunity 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 unincorporatedcommunity in Johnston County, North Carolina.
      11. An unincorporatedcommunity in Linn County, Oregon.
      12. A town in Green County, Wisconsin.
      13. An unincorporatedcommunity in Hull, Portage County, Wisconsin.
      14. A number of townships in the United States, listed under Jordan Township.
    5. A community in Lincoln, Regional Municipality of Niagara, Ontario, Canada.
    6. A small suburb of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK4092). [1]
    7. An urban area of Kowloon, Hong Kong.
    8. 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, published 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.

Derived terms

Derived terms
  • Jordan block
  • Jordan curve
  • Jordan matrix
  • Jordan rule
  • Jordanesque
  • Jordanian
  • Jordanianism
  • Jordanianness

Translations

See also

  • Countries of the world
  • (countries of Asia) country of Asia; Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen

References

  1. Ordnance Survey

Anagrams

  • Jardon

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

Danish

Proper noun

Jordan

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

Finnish

Etymology

From Latin Iordanēs.

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Jordan

  1. Jordan (river)

Declension

Inflection of Jordan (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominativeJordan—
genitiveJordanin—
partitiveJordania—
illativeJordaniin—
singularplural
nominativeJordan—
accusativenom.Jordan—
gen.Jordanin
genitiveJordanin—
partitiveJordania—
inessiveJordanissa—
elativeJordanista—
illativeJordaniin—
adessiveJordanilla—
ablativeJordanilta—
allativeJordanille—
essiveJordanina—
translativeJordaniksi—
instructive——
abessiveJordanitta—
comitative——
Possessive forms of Jordan (type risti)
possessorsingularplural
1st personJordaniniJordanimme
2nd personJordanisiJordaninne
3rd personJordaninsa

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʒɔʁ.dan/, /dʒɔʁ.dan/
  • Audio(file)

Proper noun

Jordan m

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Jordan

German

Pronunciation

  • Audio(file)

Proper noun

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

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Jordan

  1. Jordan (country)
  2. Jordan (river)
  • jordaner
  • jordansk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Jordan

  1. Jordan (country)
  2. Jordan (river)
  • jordanar
  • jordansk

Occitan

Proper noun

Jordan m

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Jordan

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
nominativeJordan
genitiveJordana
dativeJordanu
accusativeJordan
vocativeJordane
locativeJordanu
instrumentalJordanom

Swahili

Pronunciation

  • Audio (Kenya)(file)

Proper noun

Jordan

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

Swedish

Proper noun

Jordan c (genitive Jordans)

  1. Jordan (river)

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
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