Yona

See also: yona, yona', and yönä

Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

  (file)

Proper noun

Yona

1. (biblical) Jonah (book of the Old Testament of the Bible)

See also

books of the Protestant Old Testament: vitabu vya Agano la Kaleedit

• Mwanzo
• Kutoka
• Walawi
• Hesabu
• Kumbukumbu
• Yoshua
• Waamuzi
• Ruthu
• Samueli 1
• Samueli 2
• Wafalme 1
• Wafalme 2
• Mambo ya Nyakati 1
• Mambo ya Nyakati 2
• Ezra
• Nehemia
• Esta
• Yobu
• Zaburi
• Methali
• Mhubiri
• Wimbo Bora
• Isaya
• Yeremia
• Maombolezo
• Ezekieli
• Danieli
• Hosea
• Yoeli
• Amosi
• Obadia
• Yona
• Mika
• Nahumu
• Habakuki
• Sefania
• Hagai
• Zekaria
• Malaki

Tumbuka

Etymology

Borrowed from English Jonah, from Hebrew יוֹנָה (yônâh, “dove”).

Proper noun

Yona

1. Jonah
   2. (biblical) A minor prophet who was cast into the sea and swallowed by a great fish.
   4. (biblical) A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.

References

• Bible Society of Malawi, New Tumbuka Bible