Jaffa

See also: jaffa

English

Alternative forms

• Joppa
• Yafo

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic يَافَا (yāfā), borrowed from Biblical Hebrew יָפוֹ (yāfō), equivalent to Hebrew יָפָה (yafá) "beautiful", related to Akkadian 𒅀𒁍 (yapu) "beautiful".

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɑfə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒæfə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -æfə

Proper noun

Jaffa

2. A port in western Israel.

Translations

a port in western Israel

• Albanian: Jafa
• Arabic: يَافَا f (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 (nl)
• Egyptian: (ypw)
• Esperanto: Jafa
• Estonian: Jafo
• Finnish: Jaffa
• French: Jaffa (fr) f
• Georgian: იაფა (iapa)
• German: Jaffa (de) n
• Greek: Γιάφφα (el) f (Giáffa), Γιάφα (el) f (Giáfa)

  Ancient: Ἰόππη f (Ióppē)

• Hebrew: יָפוֹ (he) m (yáfo)
• Hungarian: Jaffa (hu)
• Italian: Giaffa f
• Japanese: ヤッファ (Yaffa)
• Korean: 야파 (yapa)
• Latin: Joppe f
• Latvian: Jafa f
• Lithuanian: Jafa f
• Maori: Hawha
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Jaffa f

  Nynorsk: Jaffa f

• Old English: Ioppe
• Persian: یافا (yâfâ)
• 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)

1. (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

• Jaffa cake
• Jaffa orange

Czech

Proper noun

Jaffa f (related adjective jaffský)

1. Jaffa (a port city in western Israel)

Declension

Declension of Jaffa (sg-only hard feminine)

	singular
nominative	Jaffa
genitive	Jaffy
dative	Jaffě
accusative	Jaffu
vocative	Jaffo
locative	Jaffě
instrumental	Jaffou

Further reading

• “Jaffa”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “Jaffa”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989