Jordaan is also the Afrikaans name for the Jordan river, which is not surprising, given that Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch. The river is sometimes also called Jordaanrivier in Afrikaans, which literally means "Jordan River" in English.- https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordaanrivier (in Afrikaans; mentions Jordaan multiple times) - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Jordan#Translations (in English)
- https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordaanrivier (in Afrikaans; mentions Jordaan multiple times)
- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Jordan#Translations (in English)