English
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish حیفا (hayfa) and Arabic حَيْفَا (ḥayfā), from Biblical Hebrew חיפה (ḥēp̄ɔ̂), from Classical Syriac ܟܐܦܐ (“rock”) presumably in reference to Mount Carmel, from Akkadian kāpu "rock".
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈxaɪfə/, /ˈhaɪfə/
Proper noun
Haifa
- A port city in northern Israel.
- A district of Israel.
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)
- Hawaiian: Haipa
- 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)
- Māori: Haiwha
- Marathi: हैफा f (haiphā)
- Occitan: Aifa f
- Ossetian: Хайфӕ (Xajfæ)
- Persian: حیفا (fa) (Hayfâ)
- Polish: Hajfa (pl) f
- Punjabi: ਹੈਫਾ f (haiphā)
- Russian: Ха́йфа (ru) f (Xájfa)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Хајфа f
- Latin: Haifa f
- Silesian: Hajfa f
- Tamil: கைஃபா (kaifā)
- Tatar: Haifa
- Thai: ไฮฟา (hai-faa)
- Turkish: Hayfa
- Ottoman Turkish: حیفا (Hayfa)
- Ukrainian: Ха́йфа f (Xájfa)
- Urdu: حیفا m (haifā), حیفہ m (haifa)
- Uzbek: Hayfa
- Yiddish: חיפֿה f (kheyfe)
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Czech
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Haifa f (relational adjective haifský)
- Haifa (a city in Israel)
Declension
Declension of Haifa (sg-only hard feminine)
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singular
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| nominative
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Haifa
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| genitive
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Haify
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| dative
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Haifě
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| accusative
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Haifu
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| vocative
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Haifo
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| locative
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Haifě
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| instrumental
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Haifou
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