Haifa

See also: HAIFA

English

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish حیفا (Hayfa) and Arabic حَيْفَا (Ḥayfā), from Hebrew חיפה (Kheifa), from Classical Syriac ܟܐܦܐ (“rock”) presumably in reference to Mount Carmel, from Akkadian kāpu "rock".

Proper noun

Haifa

A port city in northern Israel.

Related terms

Haifan

Translations

a city in northern Israel

Arabic: حَيْفَا f (ḥayfā)
Hijazi Arabic: حيفا f (ḥēfa)
Armenian: Հայֆա (Hayfa)
Azerbaijani: Hayfa (az)
Belarusian: Ха́йфа f (Xájfa)
Bengali: হাইফা (haipha)
Bulgarian: Ха́йфа f (Hájfa)
Chechen: Хайфа (Xajfa)
Chinese:
Hokkien: 海法 (hái-hoat)

Mandarin: 海法 (zh) (Hǎifǎ)
Czech: Haifa (cs) f
Esperanto: Ĥajfo
French: Haïfa (fr) f
Georgian: ხაიფა (xaipa)
Greek: Χάιφα f (Cháifa)
Hebrew: חֵיפָה (he) f (kheifá)
Hindi: हाइफ़ा f (hāifā)
Icelandic: Haífa f
Japanese: ハイファ (Haifa)
Kannada: ಹೈಫ (haipha)
Kazakh: Хайфа (Xaifa)
Korean: 하이파 (haipa)
Latin: Sycaminon n, Sycaminum n, Efa f, Caiphas m, Caiaphas civitas f
Macedonian: Хаифа f (Haifa)
Malayalam: ഹൈഫ (haipha)
Marathi: हैफा f (haiphā)
Occitan: Aifa f
Ossetian: Хайфӕ (Xajfæ)
Ottoman Turkish: حیفا (Hayfa)
Persian: حیفا (fa) (Hayfâ)
Polish: Hajfa (pl) f
Punjabi: ਹੈਫਾ f (haiphā)
Russian: Ха́йфа (ru) f (Xájfa)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Хајфа f

Roman: Haifa f
Silesian: Hajfa f
Tamil: கைஃபா (kaifā)
Tatar: Haifa
Thai: ไฮฟา (hai-faa)
Turkish: Hayfa
Ukrainian: Ха́йфа f (Xájfa)
Uzbek: Hayfa
Yiddish: חיפֿה f (kheyfe)

Czech

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈɦajfa]
Audio (file)

Proper noun

Haifa f (related adjective haifský)

Haifa (a city in Israel)

Declension

Declension of Haifa (sg-only hard feminine)

	singular
nominative	Haifa
genitive	Haify
dative	Haifě
accusative	Haifu
vocative	Haifo
locative	Haifě
instrumental	Haifou

Further reading

Haifa in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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