Jonas

Jonas

1. A male given name of Biblical derivation; the New Testament Greek form of Jonah.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Matthew 12:40:

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     For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

• Jason, Sonja, sanjo

From Biblical Jonas (=Jonah), also used as a medieval Latinization of Danish Jon (“John”).

Jonas

1. (biblical) Jonah.
2. A male given name.

• (surnames) Jonassen, Jonasen

• Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 20 583 males with the given name Jonas have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1990s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

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Jonas m

1. (religion) Jonah.

• IPA^(key): /ʒɔ.nɑ/

Jonas m

1. (religion) Jonah.

Jonas

1. (biblical) Jonah.
2. A male given name of biblical origin.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈjoː.naːs/

Jōnās m (genitive Jōnae); first declension

1. alternative typography of Iōnās

First declension, masculine Greek type with nominative singular in -ās.

• Jonas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Jonas

1. (religion) Jonah.

Jonas m

1. A male given name, cognate and equivalent to John.

From Latin Jonas, Ancient Greek Ἰωνᾶς (Iōnâs), from Hebrew, cognate with the English Jonas and Jonah.

Jonas

1. A male given name.
2. (religion) Jonah.

• The most common given name of boys born in Norway in the 2000-2009 decade.

• (male given names) Jona
• (surnames) Jonassen

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
• Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 12 087 males with the given name Jonas living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 2000s. Accessed on April 29th, 2011.

Borrowed from Latin Iōnās, from Ancient Greek Ἰωνᾶς (Iōnâs), from Hebrew יוֹנָה‎.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʒo.nɐs/

Jonas m

1. (biblical) Jonah (a book of the Old Testament)
2. (biblical) Jonah (prophet who was swallowed by a whale)
3. A male given name, equivalent to English Jonah and Jonas

From the Ancient Greek equivalent of English Jonah, ultimately from Hebrew, also a short form of Johannes. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1303.

Jonas c (genitive Jonas)

• IPA^(key): /juːnas/

1. A male given name.
2. (religion) Jonah.

• (male given names) Jona
• (surnames) Jonasson

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 59 573 males with the given name Jonas living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1970s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

Jonas

1. (religion) Jonah.