יונה

From Proto-Semitic *šawmān-.

• (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): [joːnɔː]
• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /joˈna/

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יוֹנָה • (yoná) f (plural indefinite יוֹנִים, singular construct יוֹנַת־, plural construct יוֹנֵי־) [pattern: קַטְלָה]

1. pigeon, dove
   • אביתר בנאי, אבא

     יונתי בחגווי הסלע
     השמיעיני את קולך

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2. dove (pacifist)

• Unlike English, which makes a distinction between doves and pigeons who constitute the same bird family – Columbidae, generally attributing positive attributes to the former and negative to the latter, Hebrew does not.

• יונת דואר / יוֹנַת דֹּאַר (yonát dóar)

יוֹנָה • (Yoná) m or f

1. (biblical) Jonah (a minor prophet who was cast into the sea and swallowed by a great fish)
2. (biblical) Jonah (a book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh)
3. a male or female given name, Yona or Yonah, equivalent to English Jonah

• → Classical Syriac: ܝܰܘܢܳܐ
  • → Malayalam: യോനാ (yōnā)
• → Yiddish: יונה (yoyne)

• “יונה” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language
• H3124 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

• יונה on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he
• יונה בן אמיתי on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he

• וינה

Borrowed from Hebrew יוֹנָה (yoná, “Jonah”)

• (YIVO, Poylish, Ukrainish) IPA^(key): /ˈjɔɪ̯nə/
• (Northeastern) IPA^(key): /ˈjeɪ̯nə/

יונה • (yoyne) m, diminutive יונהלע (yoynele)

1. (biblical) Jonah (prophet)

   Synonym: יונה הנבֿיא (yoyne hanovi)

2. (biblical) Jonah (book of the Tanakh)
3. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Jonah