Nineveh and fish

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Jonah 1:

1Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, 2“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.”
Jonah disobeyed and went in another direction.

17 And the LORD appointedd a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
Does the name "Ninevah" mean fish?

If it does, then it is ironically funny.

The following is from Wiki:

The original meaning of the name is unclear but may have referred to a patron goddess. The city was said to be devoted to "the goddess Inanna of Nineveh" and Nina was one of the Sumerian and Assyrian names for that goddess.[7] The Assyrian cuneiform for Ninâ (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/𒀏) is a fish within a house (cf. Aramaic nuna, "fish"). This may have simply intended "Place of Fish" or may have indicated a goddess associated with fish or the Tigris, possibly originally of Hurrian origin.[7] The word נון/נונא in Old Babylonian refers to the Anthiinae genus of fish,[8] further indicating the possibility of an association between the name Nineveh and fish. Jonah in the Quran is named as “Dhu'n-Nun” meaning “the owner of the fish” which “Nun” means “fish”.
 
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