Jonah

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word Jonah. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word Jonah, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say Jonah in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word Jonah you have here. The definition of the word Jonah will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofJonah, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Book of Jonah on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Jonah on Wikisource.Wikisource
Wiktionary has an Appendix listing books of the Bible

Proper noun

English Wikipedia has an article on:
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.
  5. (biblical) A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.
  6. The 10th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

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

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Translations to be checked

References

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

Anagrams

Cebuano

Etymology

A user has added this entry to requests for verification(+)
If it cannot be verified that this term meets our attestation criteria, it will be deleted. Feel free to edit this entry as normal, but do not remove {{rfv}} until the request has been resolved.

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
Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia