Jonah

English

Etymology

From Hebrew יונה ("dove").

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -əʊnə

Proper noun

Jonah

1. A male given name.
2. (biblical) A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.
3. (nautical, slang) A person who brings a ship bad luck.
4. (slang, by extension of the nautical sense) Any person or object which is deemed to cause bad luck; a jinx.

Quotations

• 1611, King James Version of the Bible (Authorized Version), Jonah 1:15:

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

Related terms

• Jonas

Translations

given name

Armenian: Հովնան (hy) (Hovnan) Danish: Jonas (da) Dutch: Jonas (nl), Jona (nl) Estonian: Joonas (et) Finnish: Joona (fi), Joonas (fi) French: Jonas (fr)

German: Jonas (de) Hawaiian: Iona Hungarian: Jónás (hu) Norwegian: Jonas (no) Russian: Иона (ru) (Ióna) m. Swedish: Jonas (sv)

Biblical: a book of the Old Testament

Armenian: Հովնան (hy) (Hovnan) Danish: Jonas (da) Dutch: Jonas, (Archaic) Jona Estonian: Joona (et) Finnish: Joona (fi) French: Jonas (fr) German: Jonas (de) (Catholic), Jona (de) (Protestant)

Hawaiian: Iona Japanese: ヨナ書 (ja) (yona sho) Maltese: Ktieb Jona Norwegian: Jona (no), Jonas (no) Russian: Книга Ионы (ru) (kníga Ióny) f. Swedish: Jona (sv)

a person who brings a ship bad luck

a jinx

Dutch: ongeluksbrenger (nl) m.

French: porte-malheur (fr) m.

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Hebrew: יוֹנָה (yona)

Maltese: Ktieb Ġona Slovene: Jona

References

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