Jonah
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -əʊnə
Origin
From the Hebrew ×™×•Ö¹× Ö¸×” (yoná, "dove").
Full definition of Jonah
Proper noun
Jonah
(plural Jonahs)- .
- (biblical) A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.
- (Quran) The 10th sura (chapter) of the Quran
- (nautical, slang) A person who brings a ship bad luck.
- (slang, by extension of the nautical sense) 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.’