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

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

  1. Jaffa (a port city in western Israel)

Declension

This proper noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

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