Jonah

English

Etymology

From the Hebrew יוֹנָה (yônâh, “dove”). Doublet of Jonas.

Pronunciation

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒoʊnə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒəʊnə/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -əʊnə

Proper noun

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Yunus (surah)

Wikipedia

Jonah

1. A male given name from Hebrew.
   • 2010, Maggie O'Farrell, The Hand That First Held Mine, Headline, →ISBN, page 165:

     'It's Jonah,' Ted says.
     Simmy considers this. 'As in the whale?'
     'Yep.'
     'You know,' Simmy says, 'that people are going to say that to him for ever more?'
     'What? The whale thing?'
     'Yes.'
     Ted shrugs again. 'Well. He'll get used to it. All names have got some associations. Anyway, he looks like a Jonah. And I like the name Jonah—'
     'Obviously,' Simmy cuts in, 'since you chose it.'

3. (biblical) A minor prophet who was cast into the sea and swallowed by a great fish.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jonah 1:15:
     :

     So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.

5. (biblical) A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.
6. The 10th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.

Derived terms

• Jonah fishing
• Jonahism

Related terms

• Jonas
• Jonasen
• Jonasohn
• Jonassen
• Jonassohn
• Jonasson

Translations

given name

Afrikaans: Jona (af) Armenian: Հովնան (hy) (Hovnan) Assyrian: ܝܘܢܢ (Yonan) Asturian: Xonás (ast) Basque: Jonas (eu) Bengali: ইঊনুস (yūnus) Breton: Yona (br) m Cebuano: Jonas Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵢⵓⵏⵙ m (yuns) Chinese: Eastern Min: 約拿 / 约拿 (Iók-nā) Corsican: Ghjonassu (co) Czech: Jonáš (cs) Danish: Jonas Dutch: Jonas (nl), Jona (nl) Estonian: Joonas Finnish: Joona (fi), Joonas (fi) French: Jonas (fr) m Galician: Xonás (gl) m Georgian: იონა (iona) German: Jonas (de) m Greek: Ιωνάς (el) m (Ionás) Ancient: Ἰωνᾶς m (Iōnâs) Greenlandic: Juuna (kl) Hawaiian: Iona Hebrew: יוֹנָה (he) m or f (Yóna, Yoná), ג׳ונה m (jóna) Hindi: जोना (hi) m (jonā) Hungarian: Jónás (hu) Icelandic: Jónas (is) m Ido: Ionas (io) Italian: Giona (it) m Japanese: ヨナ (Yona) Kazakh: Жүніс (Jünıs) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: Ûnis (ku) m, Yûnis (ku) m Latin: Ionas (la) m, Iōnās (la) m Latvian: Jonas (lv) Limburgish: Jona Lithuanian: Jona m Maori: Hona (mi) Marathi: जोनाह m (jonāh) Norwegian: Jonas (no) Ottoman Turkish: یونس (Yunus) Polish: Jonasz (pl) m Portuguese: Jonas (pt) m Romanian: Iona m Russian: Ио́на (ru) m (Ióna) Scots: Jonah Scottish Gaelic: Ionah (gd) m Slovak: Jonáš Slovene: Jona (sl) m Spanish: Jonás (es) Swahili: Yona (sw) Swedish: Jona, Jonas (sv) Tagalog: Jonas (tl) Turkish: Yunus (tr) Waray-Waray: Jonas Welsh: Jona (cy) m West Frisian: Jona Zealandic: Jona

prophet

Afrikaans: Jona (af) Arabic: يُونُس (ar) m (yūnus), يُونَان (ar) m (yūnān) Armenian: Old Armenian: Յովնան (Yovnan) Asturian: Xonás (ast) Basque: Jonas (eu) Bengali: ইঊনুস (yūnus) Breton: Yona (br) m Catalan: Jonàs Cebuano: Jonas Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵢⵓⵏⵙ (yuns) Chinese: Cantonese: 約拿 / 约拿 (joek3 naa4) Eastern Min: 約拿 / 约拿 (Iók-nā) Mandarin: 約拿 / 约拿 (Yuēná) Corsican: Ghjonassu (co) Czech: Jonáš (cs) Danish: Jonas Dutch: Jonas (nl) Estonian: Joona (et) Finnish: Joona (fi) m French: Jonas (fr) m Georgian: იონა (iona) German: Jona Greek: Ιωνάς (el) m (Ionás) Ancient: Ἰωνᾶς m (Iōnâs) Hawaiian: Iona Hebrew: יונה (he) m (yoná) Hindi: योना m (yonā) Hungarian: Jónás (hu) Icelandic: Jónas (is) m Ido: Ionas (io) Irish: Ióna (ga) m Italian: Giona (it) m Japanese: ヨナ (Yona) Kazakh: Жүніс (Jünıs) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: Yûnis (ku) m Latin: Ionas (la), Iōnās (la) m Latvian: Jonas (lv) Limburgish: Jona Lithuanian: Jona m Malay: Yunus Maore Comorian: Yunusa Ngazidja Comorian: Yunusa Norwegian: Jonas (no) Ottoman Turkish: یونس (Yunus) Polish: Jonasz (pl) m Portuguese: Jonas (pt) Rohingya: Yunus Romanian: Iona m Russian: Ио́на (ru) m (Ióna) Scots: Jonah Scottish Gaelic: Ionah (gd) m Slovak: Jonáš Slovene: Jona (sl) m Spanish: Jonás (es) Swahili: Yona (sw) Swedish: Jonas (sv) Tagalog: Jonas (tl) Tumbuka: Yona Turkish: Yunus (tr) Waray-Waray: Jonas m Welsh: Jona (cy) m West Frisian: Jona Zealandic: Jona

Biblical: a book of the Old Testament

Afrikaans: Jona (af) Arabic: يُونَان (ar) m (yūnān) Armenian: Հովնան (hy) (Hovnan) Asturian: Xonás (ast) Basque: Jonas (eu) Breton: Yona (br) m Catalan: Jonàs Cebuano: Jonas Chinese: Cantonese: 約拿書 / 约拿书 (joek3 naa4 syu1) Eastern Min: 約拿書 / 约拿书 (Iók-nā-cṳ̆) Mandarin: 約拿書 / 约拿书 (zh) (Yuēnáshū) Corsican: Ghjonassu (co) Czech: Jonáš (cs) Danish: Jonas Dutch: Jonas (nl), Jona (nl) (archaic) Estonian: Joona (et) Finnish: Joona (fi) French: Jonas (fr) German: Buch Jona n (Protestant), Buch Jonas n (Catholic) Greek: Ιωνάς (el) m (Ionás) Ancient: Ἰωνᾶς m (Iōnâs) Hawaiian: Iona Hebrew: יונה (he) m (yoná) Hindi: योना m (yonā), यूनुस m (yūnus) Hungarian: Jónás (hu) Icelandic: Jónas (is) m Ido: Ionas (io) Irish: Leabhar Ióna m, Ióna (ga) m Italian: Giona (it) Japanese: ヨナ書 (Yona sho) Kazakh: Жүніс (Jünıs) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: Yûnan m Latin: Iōnās (la) m Latvian: Jonas (lv) Limburgish: Jona Lithuanian: Jonos knyga (lt) f Malay: Yunus Maltese: Ktieb Jona, Ktieb Ġona (mt) Maori: Hona (mi) Norwegian: Jona, Jonas (no) Polish: Księga Jonasza f Portuguese: Jonas (pt) m Romanian: Iona m Russian: Кни́га Ио́ны f (Kníga Ióny) Scots: Jonah Scottish Gaelic: Ionah (gd) m Slovak: Jonáš Slovene: Jona (sl) m Spanish: Jonás (es) m Swahili: Yona (sw) Swedish: Jonas bok c Tagalog: Jonas (tl) Tumbuka: Yona Waray-Waray: Jonas Welsh: Jona (cy) m West Frisian: Jona Zealandic: Jona

tenth sūra of the Qurʾān

Afrikaans: Jona (af) Arabic: يُونُس (ar) m (yūnus) Basque: Jonas (eu) Bengali: ইঊনুস (yūnus) Breton: Yona (br) m Cebuano: Jonas Chinese: Eastern Min: 約拿書 / 约拿书 (Iók-nā-cṳ̆) Corsican: Ghjonassu (co) Czech: Jonáš (cs) Danish: Jonas Dutch: Jonas (nl) Estonian: Joona (et) Finnish: Joona (fi) m French: Jonas (fr) German: Jonas (de) Greek: Ιωνάς (el) m (Ionás) Hawaiian: Iona Hindi: यूनुस m (yūnus) Hungarian: Jónás (hu) Icelandic: Jónas (is) m Ido: Ionas (io) Italian: Giona (it) Japanese: ヨナ書 (Yona sho) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: Yûnis (ku) m Latin: Ionas (la) Latvian: Jonas (lv) Limburgish: Jona Lithuanian: Jonos knyga (lt) f Norwegian: Jonas (no) Polish: Księga Jonasza f Portuguese: Jonas (pt) Romanian: Iona m Scots: Jonah Scottish Gaelic: Ionah (gd) m Slovak: Jonáš Slovene: Jona (sl) m Spanish: Jonás (es) Swahili: Yona (sw) Swedish: Jonas (sv) Tagalog: Jonas (tl) Uyghur: يۇنۇس (yunus) Waray-Waray: Jonas Welsh: Jona (cy) m West Frisian: Jona Zealandic: Jona

Noun

Jonah (plural Jonahs)

1. (nautical, slang) A person who brings a ship bad luck.
   • 2008, Richard Blake, Evangelicals in the Royal Navy, 1775-1815: Blue Lights & Psalm-singers:

     Superstitious sailors regarded a clergyman as an unlucky shipmate, a Jonah whose presence would never be welcome.

2. (slang, by extension) Any person or object which is deemed to cause bad luck; a jinx.
   • 1979, John Le Carré, Smiley's People, Folio Society, published 2010, page 61:

     ‘My first agent, and he's dead. It's incredible. I feel like a complete Jonah.’

Translations

a person who brings a ship bad luck

a jinx

Dutch: ongeluksbrenger m, ongeluksbrengster f French: porte-malheur (fr) m German: Unglücksbringer m, Unglücksbringerin f, Unglücksrabe (de) m, Unglücksräbin f, Pechvogel (de) m, Pechvögelin f

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Maltese: (please verify) Ktieb Ġona (mt) Slovene: (please verify) Jona (sl)

References

• J. van der Schaar, “Woordenboek van voornamen”, Utrecht, Antwerpen 1964, Aula-boeken 176, Uitgeverij Het Spectrum

Anagrams

• Johan

Cebuano

Etymology

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From English Jonah, from Hebrew יוֹנָה (yonáh, “dove”).

Proper noun

Jonah

1. a male given name from Hebrew
2. a female given name from Hebrew