faba

From Latin faba.

faba f (plural fabes)

1. bean; especially the fava bean

• fabada
• fabes con amasueles

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese fava, from Latin faba.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaβa̝/

faba f (plural fabas)

1. bean

   Synonym: feixón

2. bean plant
3. inflammatory sickness of the mouth of the horses

• faba loba
• fabal
• Fabal
• Fabás
• Fabeira
• Fabeiros

• “fava” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “fava” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “faba” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “faba” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “faba” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

faba (plural fabas)

1. bean

From Proto-Italic *fafā[1], from Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ- (“bean”). Cognate with Faliscan haba (“bean”), and more distantly with Scots bene, bein (“bean”), West Frisian bean (“bean”), Dutch boon (“bean”), German Bohne (“bean”), Danish bønne (“bean”), Icelandic baun (“bean”), English bean, Russian боб (bob, “bean”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ba/

faba f (genitive fabae); first declension

1. bean
2. horse bean
3. a small object with the shape of a bean.

First declension.

• fabācia
• fabālia
• fabātārium

• faba in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• faba in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• faba in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• faba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaba/, [ˈfaβa]

faba f (plural fabas)

1. (Asturias) fava bean