Several hypotheses for the origin of the river's name in Hebrew, Yarden. One is that yar <√יר is an ancient word for "river", appearing also in other river names in the region such as Yarkon, Yarmouk and Yarmouth, and possibly Ye'or ('big river', the Biblical name for the Nile) as well.[10] According to this hypothesis, "Den" might be linked to the Akkadian word dannum for "powerful".[11] Another suggestion is that yarden comes from Semitic root yard <√ירד meaning flow down.[10] Cognates of the word are found in Aramaic, Hebrew, and other Semitic languages.[12] The first recorded use of the name appears as Yārdon in Anastasi I, an ancient Egyptian papyrus that probably dates to the time of Rameses II.[13] Early Arab chronicles referred to the river as Al-Urdunn.[14]