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Syria vs Jordan - What's the difference?

syria | jordan |

As a proper noun syria

is (l).

As a noun jordan is

(obsolete) a pot or vessel with a large neck, formerly used by physicians and alchemists.

syria

English

(wikipedia Syria)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A country in the Middle East. Official name: Syrian Arab Republic.
  • See also

    * United Arab Republic

    See also

    * ----

    jordan

    English

    (wikipedia Jordan)

    Proper noun

    (s)
  • A country in the Middle East. Official name: Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
  • A river of the Middle East, mentioned in the Bible, that empties into the Dead Sea, and after which the country is named.
  • ; 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.
  • derived from the male given name.
  • used since mid-20th century.
  • Derived terms

    * Jordanian * Jordanesque *Jordanianism *Jordanianness