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

1. 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:

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Proper noun

Haifa f (related adjective haifský)

1. 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