Meaning, origin and history of the name Yonah

Gender Masculine & Feminine

Usage Hebrew

Scripts יוֹנָה (Hebrew)

Pronounced Pron. /jo.ˈna/ [key ·simplify]

Meaning & History

Alternate transcription of Hebrew יוֹנָה (see Yona).

Rootyona

Feminine FormsYonina, Yonit

Other Languages & CulturesYonas (Amharic) Younis, Yunus (Arabic) Younes (Arabic (Maghrebi)) Yunis (Azerbaijani) Jonah, Jonas (Biblical) Ionas (Biblical Greek) Yona (Biblical Hebrew) Iona, Ionas (Biblical Latin) Jonáš (Czech) Jonas (Danish) Jonas (Dutch) Jonah (English) Joonas (Estonian) Jónas (Faroese) Joona, Joonas (Finnish) Jonas (French) Iona (Georgian) Jonas (German) Jónás (Hungarian) Jónas (Icelandic) Yunus (Indonesian) Giona (Italian) Yunus (Malay) Jonas (Norwegian) Younes (Persian) Jonasz (Polish) Yunus (Quranic) Iona (Russian) Jonáš (Slovak) Jonás (Spanish) Jonas (Swedish) Yonas (Tigrinya) Yunus (Turkish) Younus (Urdu)

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