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Yona is a Pali word used to refer to speakers of Greek.
Yona may also refer to:
Places
edit- Yona (Namibe), a commune of Angola
- Yona, Burkina Faso, a village in Bana Department, Balé Province, Burkina Faso
- Yona, Guam, a village on Guam
- Yona, Russia, a rural locality (a selo) in Murmansk Oblast, Russia
- Çaybeyi, Oğuzeli, formerly known as Yona, a rural neighborhood in Gaziantep Province, Turkey
People
edit- Jonah, Biblical prophet
- Yona Bogale, first leader of the Ethiopian Jewish community in Israel
- Daniel Yona, Tanzanian politician
- Yona Ettlinger, Israeli clarinetist
- Yona Fischer, Israeli art curator (1932–2022)
- Yona Friedman, Hungarian-born French architect
- Yona Harvey, American poet (born 1974)
- Yona Kesse, Israeli politician
- Yona Knight-Wisdom, Jamaican diver
- Yona Kosashvili, Georgian chess grandmaster
- Yona Metzger, chief Ashkenazi rabbi of Israel
- Yona Reiss, American rabbi
- Yona Rozenkier, Israeli actor, writer and filmmaker
- Yona Sabar, Iraqi linguist
- Yona Wallach, Israeli poet
- Yona Yahav, Israeli lawyer and politician
- Yona Verwer, Dutch-born visual artist
Other uses
edit- Yona of the Dawn, Japanese manga series
- Yona (film), a 2014 Israeli film
- "Yona", the word for "hedgehog" in the Lapine language of the novel Watership Down
See also
edit- Iona (disambiguation)
- Jona (disambiguation)
- Yona-Kit, American math rock quartet (1994)
- Yona Yona Penguin, 2009 Japanese animated film
- Kfar Yona, town in Sharon Subdistrict, Center District, Israel
- Akatsuki no Yona, a manga and anime series.