Younan
Younan means Greece in Arabic. In Assyrian Neo-Aramaic/Syriac, Younan or Yonan translates to the English name Jonah.
Younan is also a common surname among Assyrian, Aramean and largely Christian Arab people, typically referring to the Biblical Jonah.
It may refer to:
Places
- Ionia, an ancient region of central coastal Anatolia in present-day Turkey, also called Younan
- Greece, called Younan in Arabic
Persons
- First name
- Younan Labib Rizk (1933–2008), Egyptian historian and literary figure
- Younan Nowzaradan, bariatric surgeon featured on television series My 600-lb Life
- Family name
- Ignatius Joseph III Yonan (alternatively Younan), Patriarch of Antioch and all the East of the Syriacs for the Syriac Catholic Church
- Munib Younan (born 1950), Evangelical Lutheran Church Bishop of Palestine and Jordan in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land
- Zaya Younan, Assyrian-American entrepreneur and real estate mogul
- Emad N Younan
- Younan Properties, North American commercial real estate investment company founded by Zaya Younan
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