Jonah
English
Etymology
From the Hebrew יוֹנָה (yonáh, “dove”).
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
Template:wiki Jonah
- 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.'
- 2010 Maggie O'Farrell, The Hand That First Held Mine, Headline, →ISBN, page 165:
- (biblical) A minor prophet who was cast into the sea and swallowed by a whale.
- Template:RQ:Authorized Version:
- So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.
- Template:RQ:Authorized Version:
- A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.
- The 10th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
Derived terms
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Translations
given name
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prophet
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Biblical: a book of the Old Testament
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tenth sūra of the Qurʾān
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Noun
Jonah (plural Jonahs)
- (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.
- (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 2010, p. 61:
- ‘My first agent, and he's dead. It's incredible. I feel like a complete Jonah.’
- 1979, John Le Carré, Smiley's People, Folio Society 2010, p. 61:
Translations
a person who brings a ship bad luck
a jinx
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References
- J. van der Schaar, “Woordenboek van voornamen”, Utrecht, Antwerpen 1964, Aula-boeken 176, Uitgeverij Het Spectrum
Anagrams
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Etymology
From English Jonah, from Hebrew יוֹנָה (yonáh, “dove”).
Proper noun
Jonah
- a male given name from Hebrew
- a female given name from Hebrew
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