Jo.nah /ˈdʒəʊnə $ ˈdʒoʊ-/ BrE AmE
1 . someone who seems to bring bad luck
2 . in the Old Testament of the Bible, a man who disobeyed God and tried to escape from him by getting on a ship. God caused a storm, and the other sailors threw Jonah into the sea. He was then swallowed by a ↑ whale , and spent three days in its stomach before escaping onto land.