Jonah

  1. Proper noun.  (given name, male) .
  2. Proper noun.  (biblical) A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.
  3. Proper noun.  (nautical, slang) A person who brings a ship bad luck.
  4. Proper noun.  (slang, by extension of the nautical sense) Any person or object which is deemed to cause bad luck; a jinx.

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