English

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

Translations

See also

• Countries of the world

Danish

Proper noun

Jordan

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

Finnish

Proper noun

Jordan

1. Jordan (river)

Declension

French

Proper noun

Jordan

1. A male given name, cognate to English Jordan.

German

Proper noun

Jordan m ‎(genitive Jordans)

1. Jordan (river)

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

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

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Jòrdan m ‎(Cyrillic spelling Јо̀рдан)

1. Jordan (country, river)

Declension

Swedish

Proper noun

Jordan

1. Jordan (river)

Tatar

Proper noun

Jordan

1. Jordan (country)

References

• http://www.azatliq.org/news/international/tb/archives/2005/01/06.asp

English

Alternative forms

• (obsolete): iurdan, iurdane, iurdone, yordan, iourden, iorden, jurdon, jordon, jourdon, jordain, jurden, jourdan, jorden

Noun

jordan ‎(plural jordans)

1. (obsolete) A vessel resembling a retort bulb or Florence flask with a truncated neck and flared mouth, used by medieval doctors and alchemists.
   • 15th c., Sloane MS. 73, p. 133:

     Make a good lute... and þerwiþ daub þi Iordan al aboute... and putte al þi mater in þe Iordan and hange it ouer þe fier by þe necke þ^t þe glas be almoost an hond brede fro þe coolis.

2. (obsolete) A chamber pot.
   • 1387, Chaucer, “v. 9379”, in The Pardoner's Tale:

     And eek thyne urynals and thy jurdones,
     Thyn ypocras, and eek thy galiones

   • 1440, Promptorium Parvulorum, p. 267:

     Iurdone, pyssepotte, iurdanus.

   • a. 1598,, William Shakespeare, The First Part of Henry the Fourth, Act II, Scene i:

     2.Car. Why, you will allow vs ne're a Iourden, and then we leake in your Chimney: and your Chamber-lye breeds Fleas like a Loach.

Synonyms

• (chamber pot): jordan-pot, see also Wikisaurus:chamber pot

Derived terms

• jordan-pot

Translations

References

1. ↑
2. ↑ Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "jordan, n.¹" Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1901.