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PRONUNCIATION OF JAFFNA

Jaffna  [ˈdʒæfnə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF JAFFNA

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Jaffna is a noun.
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WHAT DOES JAFFNA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Jaffna

Jaffna

Jaffna is the capital city of the Northern Province of Sri Lanka. It is the administrative headquarters of the Jaffna district located on a peninsula of the same name. With a population of 88,138, Jaffna is Sri Lanka's 12th largest city. Jaffna is approximately six miles away from Kandarodai which served as a famous emporium in the Jaffna peninsula from classical antiquity. Jaffna's suburb, Nallur served as the capital of the four centuries-long medieval Jaffna kingdom. Prior to the Sri Lankan civil war, it was Sri Lanka's second most populated city after the commercial capital Colombo. Since the 1980s insurgent uprising, military occupation, extensive damage, expulsion and depopulation has happened. Since the end of civil war in 2009, refugees and internally displaced people are returning to their homes and government and private sector reconstruction has begun. Historically, Jaffna has been a contested city. It was made into a colonial port town during the Portuguese occupation of the Jaffna peninsula in 1619. It changed hands to the Dutch colonials, who lost it to the British in 1796.

Definition of Jaffna in the English dictionary

The definition of Jaffna in the dictionary is a port in N Sri Lanka: for many centuries the capital of a Tamil kingdom. Pop: 149 000.

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WORDS THAT END LIKE JAFFNA

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Synonyms and antonyms of Jaffna in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Jaffna» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF JAFFNA

Find out the translation of Jaffna to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Jaffna from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Jaffna» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

贾夫纳
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Jaffna
570 millions of speakers

English

Jaffna
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

जाफना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

جافنا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Джафна
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Jaffna
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জাফনা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Jaffna
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Jaffna
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Jaffna
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ジャフナ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

자프
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Jaffna
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Jaffna
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

யாழ்ப்பாண
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

जाफना
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Jaffna
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Jaffna
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Jaffna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Джафна
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Jaffna
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Jaffna
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Jaffna
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Jaffna
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

Jaffna
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Jaffna

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «JAFFNA»

The term «Jaffna» is very widely used and occupies the 14.074 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «JAFFNA» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Jaffna

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «JAFFNA»

Discover the use of Jaffna in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Jaffna and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Recipes of the Jaffna Tamils: Odiyal Kool, Kurakkan Puttu, ...
This compilation of recipes of the Jaffna Tamils is a tribute to that tradition. Rani Thangarajah collected these from her own family recipes and from Tamil women who maintain the spirit of Tamil cooking wherever they go.
Nesa Eliezer, 2003
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Ancient Jaffna: Being a Research Into the History of Jaffna ...
Being a research into the history of Jaffna, from very early times to the Portuguese period (reprint 1926 .) edn1984, 1993 Jaffna( Sri Lanka)-history
C. Rasanayagam, 1926
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Notes on Jaffna
Another wonderful part of this book is 442 short notes on the places, people, history, scandals, poetry, celebrations, arrival of ships that make the book interesting to those who know Jaffna only by name.
John H. Martyn, 1923
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Jaffna under the Portuguese
Brief study covering the period, 1505-1648; based on archival records available in Portugal and historical archives at Goa.
Tikiri Abeyasinghe, 1986
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Assignment Jaffna
Contents: Arrival-People-The Militants-Progerss Of Operations-Comparison In Nagaland And Mizoram-Extension Of Operations-Some Tactical Actions-Our Performance-Epilogue
S. C. Sardeshpande, 1992
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A Hand Book to the Jaffna Penninsula and a Souvenir of the ...
This Little Handbook First Published In 1905 Is A Detailed Gazetteer Of The Jaffna Peninsula And A History Of The Region.
Subramanier Katiresu, 2004
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Aspects of Caste in South India, Ceylon and North-West Pakistan
E. R. Leach. CASTE IN JAFFNA"1 By MICHAEL BANKS INTRODUCTION The Jaffna peninsula is the northernmost part of Ceylon. An arid limestone- coral formation, it has little or no surface water except during the monsoon season, but there ...
E. R. Leach, 1960
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World and Its Peoples: Eastern and Southern Asia
Jaffna is the cultural center of Sri Lanka's Tamil minority and the second-largest metropolitan area in the country. Because of civil unrest in the Jaffna region, the Tamil districts were only partly enumerated in the 2001 Sri Lankan census, when  ...
Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 2007
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The Yalpana-vaipava-malai, Or, The History of the Kingdom of ...
Cultural life and history of Jaffna Kingdom, Sri Lanka.
Mātakal Mayilvākan̲ap Pulavar, 1999
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THE MERCANTILE NAVY LIST AND ANNUAL APPENDAGE TO THE ...
Port of Jaffna Annaletcheniy of Jaffna . Miraoiadani of Jaffna St. Lawrence of Jaffna Adiletchemy of Jaffna Parapadapak ial etchemy of Jffn. Victoria of Jaffna Nahana Progoshy Ruby of Jffna Moheydin Coder Box of Jaffna Miram-poTery of  ...
‎1861

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «JAFFNA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Jaffna is used in the context of the following news items.
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Soccer Masters XI to play in Jaffna | The Nation
Sri Lanka Soccer Masters XI (SLSM) team comprising former national stars of over 40 years, will travel to Jaffna to play a friendly game against ... «nation.lk - The Nation Newspaper, Jul 15»
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Government to build two Police Stations in Jaffna
The Cabinet of Ministers has given approval to expeditiously build Police Stations in Jaffna and Point Pedro by increasing the estimated ... «The Official Government News Portal of Sri Lanka, Jul 15»
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10 Ex-LTTE Cadre Vying For Seats In Jaffna-Kilinochchi Electoral …
COLOMBO: Crusaders for Democracy (CFD), an organization of ex-LTTE cadre and their supporters, will be putting up ten former militants in ... «The New Indian Express, Jul 15»
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Jaffna sees sharp fall in number of voters
election The Jaffna electoral district in the Northern Province has witnessed a sharp drop of over 25 per cent in the number of voters, The Hindu ... «Colombo Gazette, Jul 15»
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All Police Stations in Jaffna would be shut down – UNP Candidate …
After filing the nomination for the Jaffna electoral district around 3.30 PM today at the Jaffna District Secretary's office, she spoke to the media ... «Asian Tribune, Jul 15»
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On Jaffna Library sparrows and pallbearers
The Jaffna Public Library burning is one example. It's been more than three decades. We still don't know what happened. We still don't know ... «nation.lk - The Nation Newspaper, Jul 15»
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EPDP – At last to test its strength in Jaffna
The move is said to be an experiment of truth to test its popularity in the Jaffna district. The last time EPDP contested in its own party was in the ... «Asian Tribune, Jul 15»
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* Sri Lankan government to expedite building police stations in Jaffna
July 11, Colombo: The Sri Lankan government plans to expedite the building of two police stations in the war-ravaged Jaffna and has sought ... «Colombo Page, Jul 15»
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SINHALESE DO NOT GET SERVICE IN JAFFNA IS THIS THE RE …
Gamage started his journey from Colombo to Jafna on Monday the 6th of july. It was an Insurance office in Jaffna few minutes after 3p.m. «Lankaweb, Jul 15»
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Strolling Across Jaffna Politics
This follows reports that some Jaffna based ex-LTTE cadres rehabilitated and released by the Rajapaksa government have come together to ... «Lankaweb, Jul 15»

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