jonah
/ˈd͡ʒoʊnə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.53 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A male given name from Hebrew.
name
A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.
Example Sentences
- "'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.'"
- "So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging."
- "Superstitious sailors regarded a clergyman as an unlucky shipmate, a Jonah whose presence would never be welcome."
- "‘My first agent, and he's dead. It's incredible. I feel like a complete Jonah.’"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: יוֹנָה
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈd͡ʒoʊnə/
- British English: /ˈd͡ʒəʊnə/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Jonahism