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Jonah

Jonah is the Hebrew word for 'dove'. Arabic Yūnus keeps the -s of Greek Iōnâs, a sign that the name reached it through Greek, and carried it to Persia, Turkey, Bengal and Malaysia; Ethiopian Yonas and the Jonas of Sweden keep the -s too, while Russian Iona and English Jonah drop it. Armenian Yovnan took the Greek accusative, and Japanese Yona went back to the Hebrew shape.

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600 BCEBiblical Hebrew

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