Jonah

//ˈd͡ʒoʊnə//

Synonyms for "jonah" (39 found)

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Closest matches (8)

Strong matches (12)

Related words (19)

Noun(1 words)
jinx

Related word relations

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7 relation types

More general

2 entries

Related terms

6 entries

derived

2 entries

has context

4 entries

is a

1 entries

part of

2 entries

related to

15 entries

Translations

247 translations across 72 languages.

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Afrikaans

4 entries
  • Jona name (given name)
  • Jona name (prophet)
  • Jona name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • Jona name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)

Ancient Greek

3 entries
  • Ἰωνᾶς name (given name)
  • Ἰωνᾶς name (prophet)
  • Ἰωνᾶς name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)

Arabic

4 entries
  • يُونَان name (prophet)
  • يُونَان name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • يُونُس name (prophet)
  • يُونُس name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)

Armenian

2 entries
  • Հովնան name (given name)
  • Հովնան name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)

Assyrian

1 entries
  • ܝܘܢܢ name (given name)

Asturian

3 entries
  • Xonás name (given name)
  • Xonás name (prophet)
  • Xonás name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)

Basque

4 entries
  • Jonas name (given name)
  • Jonas name (prophet)
  • Jonas name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • Jonas name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)

Bengali

3 entries
  • ইঊনুস name (given name)
  • ইঊনুস name (prophet)
  • ইঊনুস name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)

Breton

4 entries
  • Yona name (given name)
  • Yona name (prophet)
  • Yona name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • Yona name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)

Catalan

2 entries
  • Jonàs name (prophet)
  • Jonàs name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)

Cebuano

4 entries
  • Jonas name (given name)
  • Jonas name (prophet)
  • Jonas name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • Jonas name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)

Central Atlas Tamazight

2 entries
  • ⵢⵓⵏⵙ name (given name)
  • ⵢⵓⵏⵙ name (prophet)

Cherokee

1 entries
  • ᏦᎾ name (prophet)

Chinese Cantonese

2 entries
  • 約拿 /约拿 name (prophet)
  • 約拿書 /约拿书 name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries
  • 約拿 /约拿 name (prophet)
  • 約拿書 /约拿书 name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)

Corsican

4 entries
  • Ghjonassu name (given name)
  • Ghjonassu name (prophet)
  • Ghjonassu name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • Ghjonassu name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)

Czech

4 entries
  • Jonáš name (given name)
  • Jonáš name (prophet)
  • Jonáš name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • Jonáš name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)

Danish

4 entries
  • Jonas name (given name)
  • Jonas name (prophet)
  • Jonas name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • Jonas name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)

Dutch

4 entries
  • Jona name (given name)
  • Jona name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • Jonas name (given name)
  • Jonas name (prophet)

Eastern Min Chinese

4 entries
  • 約拿 /约拿 name (given name)
  • 約拿 /约拿 name (prophet)
  • 約拿書 /约拿书 name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • 約拿書 /约拿书 name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)

Estonian

4 entries
  • Joona name (prophet)
  • Joona name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • Joona name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)
  • Joonas name (given name)

Finnish

4 entries
  • Joona name (given name)
  • Joona name (prophet)
  • Joona name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • Joona name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)

French

4 entries
  • Jonas name (given name)
  • Jonas name (prophet)
  • Jonas name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • Jonas name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)

Galician

1 entries
  • Xonás name (given name)

Georgian

2 entries
  • იონა name (given name)
  • იონა name (prophet)

German

4 entries
  • Buch Jona name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • Buch Jonas name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • Jona name (prophet)
  • Jonas name (given name)

Greek

4 entries
  • Ιωνάς name (given name)
  • Ιωνάς name (prophet)
  • Ιωνάς name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • Ιωνάς name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)

Greenlandic

1 entries
  • Juuna name (given name)

Hawaiian

4 entries
  • Iona name (given name)
  • Iona name (prophet)
  • Iona name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • Iona name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)

Hebrew

4 entries
  • ג׳ונה name (given name)
  • יוֹנָה name (given name)
  • יונה name (prophet)
  • יונה name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)

Hindi

4 entries
  • जोना name (given name)
  • यूनुस name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • यूनुस name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)
  • योना name (prophet)

Hungarian

4 entries
  • Jónás name (given name)
  • Jónás name (prophet)
  • Jónás name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • Jónás name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)

Icelandic

4 entries
  • Jónas name (given name)
  • Jónas name (prophet)
  • Jónas name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • Jónas name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)

Ido

4 entries
  • Ionas name (given name)
  • Ionas name (prophet)
  • Ionas name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • Ionas name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)

Irish

3 entries
  • Ióna name (prophet)
  • Ióna name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • Leabhar Ióna name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)

Italian

4 entries
  • Giona name (given name)
  • Giona name (prophet)
  • Giona name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • Giona name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)

Japanese

4 entries
  • ヨナ name (given name)
  • ヨナ name (prophet)
  • ヨナ書 name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • ヨナ書 name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)

Kazakh

3 entries
  • Жүніс name (given name)
  • Жүніс name (prophet)
  • Жүніс name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)

Latin

4 entries
  • Ionas name (given name)
  • Ionas name (prophet)
  • Ionas name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)
  • Iōnās name (given name)

Latvian

4 entries
  • Jonas name (given name)
  • Jonas name (prophet)
  • Jonas name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • Jonas name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)

Limburgish

4 entries
  • Jona name (given name)
  • Jona name (prophet)
  • Jona name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • Jona name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)

Lithuanian

4 entries
  • Jona name (given name)
  • Jona name (prophet)
  • Jonos knyga name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • Jonos knyga name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)

Malay

2 entries
  • Yunus name (prophet)
  • Yunus name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)

Maltese

2 entries
  • Ktieb Jona name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • Ktieb Ġona name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)

Maore Comorian

1 entries
  • Yunusa name (prophet)

Marathi

1 entries
  • जोनाह name (given name)

Māori

2 entries
  • Hona name (given name)
  • Hona name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)

Ngazidja Comorian

1 entries
  • Yunusa name (prophet)

Northern Kurdish

4 entries
  • Yûnan name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • Yûnis name (given name)
  • Yûnis name (prophet)
  • Yûnis name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)

Norwegian

4 entries
  • Jona name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • Jonas name (given name)
  • Jonas name (prophet)
  • Jonas name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)

Old Armenian

1 entries
  • Յովնան name (prophet)

Ottoman Turkish

2 entries
  • یونس name (given name)
  • یونس name (prophet)

Polish

4 entries
  • Jonasz name (given name)
  • Jonasz name (prophet)
  • Księga Jonasza name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • Księga Jonasza name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)

Portuguese

4 entries
  • Jonas name (given name)
  • Jonas name (prophet)
  • Jonas name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • Jonas name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)

Rohingya

1 entries
  • Yunus name (prophet)

Romanian

4 entries
  • Iona name (given name)
  • Iona name (prophet)
  • Iona name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • Iona name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)

Russian

3 entries
  • Ио́на name (given name)
  • Ио́на name (prophet)
  • Кни́га Ио́ны name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)

Scots

4 entries
  • Jonah name (given name)
  • Jonah name (prophet)
  • Jonah name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • Jonah name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)

Scottish Gaelic

4 entries
  • Ionah name (given name)
  • Ionah name (prophet)
  • Ionah name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • Ionah name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)

Slovak

4 entries
  • Jonáš name (given name)
  • Jonáš name (prophet)
  • Jonáš name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • Jonáš name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)

Slovene

4 entries
  • Jona name (given name)
  • Jona name (prophet)
  • Jona name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • Jona name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)

Spanish

4 entries
  • Jonás name (given name)
  • Jonás name (prophet)
  • Jonás name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • Jonás name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)

Swahili

4 entries
  • Yona name (given name)
  • Yona name (prophet)
  • Yona name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • Yona name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)

Swedish

4 entries
  • Jona name (given name)
  • Jonas name (given name)
  • Jonas name (prophet)
  • Jonas name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)

Tagalog

4 entries
  • Jonas name (given name)
  • Jonas name (prophet)
  • Jonas name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • Jonas name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)

Tumbuka

2 entries
  • Yona name (prophet)
  • Yona name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)

Turkish

2 entries
  • Yunus name (given name)
  • Yunus name (prophet)

Uyghur

1 entries
  • يۇنۇس name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)

Waray-Waray

4 entries
  • Jonas name (given name)
  • Jonas name (prophet)
  • Jonas name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • Jonas name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)

Welsh

4 entries
  • Jona name (given name)
  • Jona name (prophet)
  • Jona name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • Jona name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)

West-Frisian

4 entries
  • Jona name (given name)
  • Jona name (prophet)
  • Jona name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • Jona name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)

Zealandic

4 entries
  • Jona name (given name)
  • Jona name (prophet)
  • Jona name (Biblical: a book of the Old Testament)
  • Jona name (tenth sūra of the Qurʾān)

Sample sentences

7 total sentences available.

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Jonah and Leah live in a beautiful, straw-bale, timber-framed home that they built from hand.

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Jonah was a prophet of God.

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You are Simon the son of Jonah.

Source: tatoeba (11840845)

'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.'

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