FromLatin Iordanēs , fromAncient Greek Ἰορδάνης ( Iordánēs ) , fromBiblical Hebrew יַרְדֵּן ( yardén ,“ Jordan (river) ” ) .Doublet ofYarden .
Jordan (countable anduncountable ,plural Jordans )
Aplacename :A river inWestern Asia , in theMiddle East , that empties into theDead Sea , flowing throughIsrael , theGolan Heights , theWest Bank and Jordan. A country inWestern Asia , in theMiddle East . Official name:Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan . Capital and largest city:Amman 2011 [1978 January 1],Jimmy Carter ,White House Diary [1] ,→ISBN ,→LCCN ,→OCLC ,page159 :Early the next morning I met with King Hussein ofJordan 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.
2019 November 10, “Jordan reclaims 'every inch' of land leased to Israeli farmers”, inDeutsche Welle [2] , archived fromthe original onNovember 11, 2019 , News[3] :Ghamr and Baqura became part ofJordan after the country gained independence from Britain in 1946. The areas were later seized by Israel but eventually incorporated into a peace treaty between the two countries in 1994. The treaty included a long-term lease that would allow Israeli farmers to cultivate the land.
The name of other rivers around the world, listed underJordan River (disambiguation) . A number of places in theUnited States :Anunincorporated community inWashington Township,Daviess County ,Indiana . Anunincorporated community inMorgan Township,Owen County ,Indiana . Anunincorporated community inBoone County ,Iowa . Anunincorporated community inFulton County ,Kentucky . A city inScott County ,Minnesota . A neighbourhood ofMinneapolis ,Minnesota . Anunincorporated community inHickory County ,Missouri . A small town, thecounty seat ofGarfield County ,Montana . A village inOnondaga County ,New York . Anunincorporated community inJohnston County ,North Carolina . Anunincorporated community inLinn County ,Oregon . A town inGreen County ,Wisconsin . Anunincorporated community inHull ,Portage County ,Wisconsin . A number oftownships in theUnited States , listed underJordan Township . Acommunity ofLincoln ,Regional Municipality of Niagara ,Ontario ,Canada . A smallsuburb ofRotherham ,South Yorkshire ,England ( OS grid ref SK4092) .[ 1] An area ofYau Tsim Mong district,Kowloon ,Hong Kong region.2022 October 9, Yanni Chow, “‘This is our home’: ethnic minority residents of Jordan’s Man Wah Sun Chuen estate may lose community to redevelopment”, inSouth China Morning Post [4] ,→ISSN ,→OCLC , archived fromthe original on10 October 2023 , News[5] :Man Wah Sun Chuen in Jordan is one of Hong Kong’s oldest private housing estates.
2024 April 10, Hillary Leung, “At least 5 dead, over 30 injured after fire in Hong Kong building”, inHong Kong Free Press [6] , archived fromthe original on12 April 2024 , Hong Kong:At least five people have died and over 30 have been injured after a fire broke out in a building inJordan on Wednesday morning.
Places in thePhilippines :Abarangay ofSinait ,Ilocos Sur ,Philippines .Coordinate terms: Aguing ,Baliw ,Ballaigui ,Baracbac ,Barikir ,Battog ,Binacud ,Cabangtalan ,Cabarambanan ,Cabulalaan ,Cadanglaan ,Calanutian ,Calingayan ,Curtin ,Dadalaquiten Norte ,Dadalaquiten Sur ,Dean Leopoldo Yabes ,Duyayyat ,Jordan ,Katipunan ,Macabiag ,Magsaysay ,Marnay ,Masadag ,Nagbalioartian ,Nagcullooban ,Nagongburan ,Namnama ,Pacis ,Paratong ,Purag ,Quibit-quibit ,Quimmallogong ,Rang-ay ,Ricudo ,Sabañgan ,Sallacapo ,Santa Cruz ,Sapriana ,Tapao ,Teppeng ,Tubigay ,Ubbog ,Zapat —barangays of Sinait Amunicipality , thecapital ofGuimaras ,Philippines .Meronyms: Alaguisoc ,Balcon Maravilla ,Balcon Melliza ,Bugnay ,Buluangan ,Espinosa ,Hoskyn ,Lawi ,Morobuan ,Poblacion ,Rizal ,San Miguel ,Santa Teresa ,Sinapsapan —barangays of Jordan Coordinate terms: Buenavista ,Jordan ,Nueva Valencia ,San Lorenzo ,Sibunag —municipalities of Guimaras Abarangay ofVillaba ,Leyte ,Philippines .Coordinate terms: Abijao ,Balite ,Bangcal ,Bugabuga ,Cabunga-an ,Cabungahan ,Cagnocot ,Cahigan ,Calbugos ,Camporog ,Canquiason ,Capinyahan ,Casili-on ,Catagbacan ,Fatima ,Hibulangan ,Hinabuyan ,Iligay ,Jalas ,Jordan ,Libagong ,New Balanac ,Payao ,Poblacion Norte ,Poblacion Sur ,Sambulawan ,San Francisco ,San Vicente ,Santa Cruz ,Silad ,Suba ,Sulpa ,Tabunok ,Tagbubunga ,Tinghub —barangays of Villaba A unisexgiven name from Hebrew .A malegiven name from Hebrew ; in the Middle Ages given to children baptized with Jordan water brought bycrusaders .1989 ,Jeanette Winterson ,Sexing the Cherry , Grove Press, published1998 ,→ISBN , pages3–4 :I call himJordan 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.
A femalegiven name from Hebrew, of mid-20th century and later usage .Asurname transferred from the given name derived from the male given name.country
Abkhaz:Иорданиа ( Jordanja ) Adyghe:Иордание ( Jiwordanije ) Afrikaans:Jordanië Albanian:Jordani (sq) f ,Jordania f ( definite ) Amharic:ዮርዳኖስ ( yordanos ) Antillean Creole:Jodani f Arabic:الْأُرْدُن (ar) m ( al-ʔurdun ) ,الْأُرْدُنّ (ar) m ( al-ʔurdunn ) Armenian:Հորդանան ( Hordanan ) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic:ܝܘܼܪܕܢܵܢ ( yurdnan ) Azerbaijani:İordaniya (az) Bashkir:Иордания ( İordaniya ) Basque:Jordania (eu) Bavarian:Jordanien Belarusian:Іарда́нія f ( Iardánija ) Bengali:জর্দান (bn) ( jordan ) Breton:Jordania Bulgarian:Йорда́ния (bg) f ( Jordánija ) Burmese:ဂျော်ဒန် ( gyaudan ) Catalan:Jordània (ca) f Chechen:Иордани ( İordani ) ,Урдан ( Urdan ) Cherokee:ᏦᏓᏂ ( tsodani ) Chinese:Mandarin:約旦 / 约旦 (zh) ( Yuēdàn ) Corsican:Ghjurdania f ,Ghjordania f Crimean Tatar:Urdun Czech:Jordánsko (cs) n Danish:Jordan (da) n Dhivehi:އުރުދުން ( urudun̊ ) Dutch:Jordanië (nl) n Esperanto:Jordanio (eo) Estonian:Jordaania (et) Farefare:Yoodan Faroese:Jordan n Finnish:Jordania (fi) French:Jordanie (fr) f Galician:Xordania (gl) f Georgian:იორდანია (ka) ( iordania ) German:Jordanien (de) n Greek:Ιορδανία (el) f ( Iordanía ) Guianese Creole:Jordani f Haitian Creole:Jòdani f Hausa:Jordan Hawaiian:Ioredāne Hebrew:יַרְדֵּן (he) m or f ( yardén ) ,מַמְלֶכֶת יַרְדֵּן f ( mamlékhet yardén ) Hindi:जॉर्डन (hi) m ( jŏrḍan ) ,उर्दुन m ( urdun ) Hungarian:Jordánia (hu) Icelandic:Jórdanía (is) f Ido:Jordania (io) Indonesian:Yordania (id) Interlingua:Jordania Irish:an Iordáin f Italian:Giordania (it) f Japanese:ヨルダン (ja) ( Yorudan ) Kabardian:Йорданиэ ( Jordaniɛ ) ,Йордан ( Jordan ) Kalenjin:Jodan Kamba:Jondani Kazakh:Иордания (kk) ( İordaniä ) ,Ұрдония ( Ūrdoniä ) Khmer:ហ៊្សកដានី (km) ( zɔɔkdaanii ) Kikuyu:Jordan Korean:요르단 (ko) ( Yoreudan ) Kurdish:Northern Kurdish:Erden (ku) Kyrgyz:Иордания (ky) ( İordaniya ) ,Үрдүн (ky) ( Ürdün ) Lao:ຈໍແດນ ( chǭ dǣn ) ,ຊອັກດະນີ Latin:Iordania (la) f Latvian:Jordānija (lv) f Lithuanian:Jordanija (lt) f Luhya:Jordan Luo:Jordan Macedonian:Јордан (mk) m ( Jordan ) Malay:Jordan (ms) Maltese:il-Ġurdan Manchu:ᡳᠣᡵᡩᠠᠩ ( iordang ) Maori:Hōrano Marathi:जॉर्डन m ( jŏrḍan ) Meru:Jordan Mongolian:Cyrillic:Иордан ( Iordan ) Navajo:Jóoʼdan Nepali:उर्दुन ( urduna ) Norman:Jourdain m ( Jersey ) ,Jourdanîn f Norwegian:Bokmål:Jordan (no) n Nynorsk:Jordan (nn) n Occitan:Jordania f ,Jordània (oc) f Ossetian:Иордани ( Iordani ) Ottoman Turkish:اوردن ( Ürdün ) Pashto:اردن m ( urdun ) Persian:Dari:اُرْدُن ( urdun ) Iranian Persian:اُرْدُن ( ordon ) Polish:Jordania (pl) f Portuguese:Jordânia (pt) f Quechua:Hurdanya Rarotongan:‘Īoritāna Romanian:Iordania (ro) f Russian:Иорда́ния (ru) f ( Iordánija ) Sardinian:Giordània f Scots:Jordan Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:Јо̀рдан m Roman:Jòrdan (sh) m Shan:မိူင်းၵျေႃႇတၼ်ႇ ( móeng kjàu tàn ) 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) n 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:اُرْدُن m ( urdun ) ,جورْڈَن m ( jorḍan ) Uyghur:ئىئوردانىيە ( i'ordaniye ) Uzbek:Iordaniya (uz) Vietnamese:Gioóc-đa-ni ,Gióc-đa-ni Volapük:Yordän (vo) West Flemish:Jordanië n West Frisian:Jordaanje n Yiddish:יאָרדאַניע ( yordanye ) Yoruba:Jọdani
FromLatin Iordanes , fromAncient Greek Ἰορδάνης ( Iordánēs ) , fromBiblical Hebrew יַרְדֵּן ( yardén ,“ Jordan (river) ” ) . The given name is fromMichael Jordan .
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Jordan (a country inWestern Asia , in theMiddle East )Jordan (a river inWestern Asia , in theMiddle East , that empties into theDead Sea , flowing throughIsrael , theGolan Heights , theWest Bank and Jordan) FromLatin Iordanēs .
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a Finnishsurname Jordan is the 4159th (tied with 16 other surnames) most common surname in Finland, belonging to 180 individuals, according toFebruary 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.Many of these surnames in the statistics may instead be homonymous foreign surnames. ^ Mikkonen, Pirjo, Paikkala, Sirkka (2000 )Sukunimet , Helsinki: Otava,→ISBN IPA (key ) : /ʒɔʁ.dan/ ,( rare ) /dʒɔʁ.dan/ Jordan m
a malegiven name , equivalent to EnglishJordan der Jordan m (proper noun ,strong ,usually definite ,definite genitive des Jordan or des Jordans )
Jordan (a river inWestern Asia , in theMiddle East , that empties into theDead Sea , flowing throughIsrael , theGolan Heights , theWest Bank and Jordan)one of several brooks or small rivers inGermany FromHebrew יַרְדֵּן ( yardén ) , andArabic الأردن ( “ al-'urdunn ” ) .
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Jordan (a country inWestern Asia , in theMiddle East )Jordan (a river inWestern Asia , in theMiddle East , that empties into theDead Sea , flowing throughIsrael , theGolan Heights , theWest Bank and Jordan)Fromjor- ( “ wild boar ” ) +dan ( “ Dane ” ) .
IPA (key ) : /²juːrdan/ ,/²juːɖan/ Jordan m (definite Jordanen )
a malegiven name FromHebrew יַרְדֵּן ( yardén ) , andArabic الأردن ( “ al-'urdunn ” ) .
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Jordan (a country inWestern Asia , in theMiddle East )Synonym: Yordani FromOld Swedish Iordan . Cognate withOld Danish Jordanus (partially latinized).
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