Jaffa

See also: jaffa

English

Alternative forms

Joppa
Yafo

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic يَافَا‎ (yāfā).‎

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -æfə

Proper noun

Jaffa

A port in western Israel.

Translations

Jaffa

Albanian: Jafa
Arabic: يَافَا‎‎ (yāfā)
Armenian: Յաֆֆա (Yaffa), Յաֆա (Yafa)
Basque: Jaffa
Bulgarian: Яфо m (Jafo), Яфа f (Jafa)
Catalan: Jaffa f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 雅法 (zh) (Yǎfǎ)
Czech: Jaffa f
Danish: Jaffa
Dutch: Jaffa
Esperanto: Jafa
Estonian: Jafo
Finnish: Jaffa
French: Jaffa (fr) f
Georgian: იაფა (iapa)
German: Jaffa (de) f
Greek: Γιάφφα f (Giáffa), Γιάφα f (Giáfa)
Ancient: Ἰόππη f (Ióppē)
Hebrew: יפו‎‎ m (yāfō)
Hungarian: Jaffa (hu)
Italian: Giaffa f

Japanese: ヤッファ (Yaffa)
Korean: 야파 (yapa)
Latin: Joppe f
Latvian: Jafa f
Lithuanian: Jafa f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Jaffa f

Nynorsk: Jaffa f
Persian: یافا‎‎ (yāfā)
Polish: Jafa f
Portuguese: Jafa f
Romanian: Jaffa f
Russian: Я́ффа (ru) f (Jáffa)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Јафа f

Roman: Jafa f
Slovak: Jaffa f
Slovene: Jafo m
Spanish: Jaffa f
Swedish: Jaffa
Turkish: Yafa
Ukrainian: Я́ффа f (Jáffa)

Noun

Jaffa (plural Jaffas)

(informal) A Jaffa orange.
- 2005, Barbara Anderson, Collected stories
  They were together, at the flicks on Saturday night, eating Jaffas and smiling at each other occasionally in the dark.

Related terms

Czech

Proper noun

Jaffa f

Jaffa (port city in western Israel)

Further reading

Jaffa in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
Jaffa in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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