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".
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)
- Maori: Haiwha
- 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)
- 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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