Ras Hafun

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Somali Ras Xaafuun.

Pronunciation

• (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?) (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɑːs hɑːˈfuːn/
• (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?) (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɑs hɑˈfun/
• Rhymes: -uːn

Proper noun

Ras Hafun

1. A promontory in Bari, Puntland, Somalia.

   Synonym: Cape Hafun

   • 1943, United States Hydrographic Office, Sailing Directions for the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, →OCLC, page 472:

     In July 1919, a southerly current with a rate of 1 to 2 knots was experienced close inshore from a position 8 miles southward of Ras Asir to Ras Hafun.

   • 2000 May 24, Peter S. Bridges, Safirka: An American Envoy, →ISBN, page 163:

     Soon the enterprise at Ras Hafun was exporting by sea over three hundred thousand tons of salt a year for industrial use.

   • 2003 August 18, Timothy Insoll, The Archaeology of Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa, →ISBN, page 44:

     Ras Hafun was excavated by the late Neville Chittick (1976), under the auspices of the British Institute in Eastern Africa of which he was director.