Jaffa

See also: jaffa

English

Alternative forms

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)(file)
  • Rhymes: -æfə

Proper noun

Jaffa

  1. A port in western Israel.

Translations

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.

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
  • Jaffa in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.