Hayfa

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Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish حیفا (Hayfa), from Arabic حَيْفَا (Ḥayfā), from Hebrew חֵיפָה (Kheifá).

Proper noun

Hayfa

Haifa (a city in Israel)

References

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “حیفا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 816

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