الأردن

From جُنْد الْأُرْدُن, "the Military district of Jordan", likely coined from Classical Syriac or Hebrew. Natively related to the root و ر د (w-r-d) meaning "to descend", "to go or come down", "to come upon or come across something", "to come down to water", "an area descending to or a pathway leading to water", "a watering place"; for more see Hebrew יַרְדֵּן (yardén).

• IPA^(key): /al.ʔur.dun/

الْأُرْدُن • (al-ʔurdun) m

1. Jordan (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East)

   الْأُرْدُنُ مُحَاطَةٌ مِنَ الشَّمَالِ بِسُورِيَا، مِنَ الْغَرْبِ بِفِلَسْطِينَ، وَمِنَ الشَّرْقِ بِالْعِرَاقِ، وَمِنَ الشَّرْقِ وَالْجَنُوبِ بِالْمَمْلَكَةِ الْعَرَبِيَّةِ السُّعُودِيَّةِ.

   al-ʔurdunu muḥāṭatun mina š-šamāli bisūriyā, mina l-ḡarbi bifilasṭīna, wamina š-šarqi bi-l-ʕirāqi, wamina š-šarqi wāljanūbi bi-l-mamlakati l-ʕarabiyyati s-suʕūdiyyati.

   Jordan is surrounded from the north by Syria, from the west by Palestine, from the east by Iraq, and from the east and south by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

2. Jordan (a river in Western Asia, in the Middle East, that empties into the Dead Sea, flowing through Israel, the Golan Heights, the West Bank and Jordan)

• Wehr, Hans (1979) “أردن”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

From Arabic الْأُرْدُن (al-ʔurdun).

• IPA^(key): /lʔur.dun/, [(ɪ)lˈʔʊr.dʊn]

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الأردن • (il-ʔurdun) m

1. Jordan (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East)
2. Jordan (a river in Western Asia, in the Middle East, that empties into the Dead Sea, flowing through Israel, the Golan Heights, the West Bank and Jordan)

   نهر الأردن ― nahr il-ʔurdon ― River Jordan

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• أردني (ʔurduni, “Jordanian”)