fava
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian fava. Cognate with Portuguese fava and Spanish haba (“broad bean”). Doublet of bean.
Pronunciation
Noun
fava (plural favas or fava)
- A fava bean; a bean (seed or seed pod) of the plant Vicia faba or the plant itself.
- 1976, I. I. Gottesman, J. Shields, Rejoinder: Toward optimal arousal and away from original din, Schizophrenia Buletin, 2: 447-453, quoted in 2004, Jay Joseph, The Gene Illusion, page 269,
- Favism, a hemolytic anemia that follows the eating of fava or broadbeans, provides a textbook example of a genotype X environment interaction.
- 2001, Clifford A. Wright, Mediterranean Vegetables, page 153:
- When spring arrives the fava arrives and everyone in the Mediterranean can dream up a way of cooking it.
- 2012, John Navazio, The Organic Seed Grower: A Farmer's Guide to Vegetable Seed Production, page 268:
- In cool temperate zones favas are planted early in the growing season, several weeks before the last frost, and grown as a summer annual, much like other vegetable crops of the Fabaceae.
- 1976, I. I. Gottesman, J. Shields, Rejoinder: Toward optimal arousal and away from original din, Schizophrenia Buletin, 2: 447-453, quoted in 2004, Jay Joseph, The Gene Illusion, page 269,
Usage notes
The collocation fava bean is much more common, even for the plant.
Derived terms
Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central) [ˈfa.βə]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [ˈfa.və]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [ˈfa.va]
- Rhymes: -avə, -abə, -ava
Noun
fava f (plural faves)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “fava” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “fava”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
Italian
Etymology
From Latin faba, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ- (“bean”).
Pronunciation
Noun
fava f (plural fave)
- (botany) fava bean, broad bean
- (informal, vulgar, slang) glans of the penis
- (vulgar, slang, Tuscany) cock
- Synonym: cazzo
Derived terms
Related terms
See also
Further reading
- Fava on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese fava, from Latin faba (“bean”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ- (“bean”).
Pronunciation
Noun
fava f (plural favas)
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Italian
- English terms derived from Italian
- English doublets
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ɑːvə
- Rhymes:English/ɑːvə/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- English indeclinable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- en:Fabeae tribe plants
- Catalan terms inherited from Latin
- Catalan terms derived from Latin
- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Catalan/avə
- Rhymes:Catalan/abə
- Rhymes:Catalan/ava
- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan nouns
- Catalan countable nouns
- Catalan feminine nouns
- ca:Vegetables
- Italian terms inherited from Latin
- Italian terms derived from Latin
- Italian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Italian 2-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ava
- Rhymes:Italian/ava/2 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian feminine nouns
- it:Botany
- Italian informal terms
- Italian vulgarities
- Italian slang
- Tuscan Italian
- it:Legumes
- it:Vegetables
- Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms inherited from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/avɐ
- Rhymes:Portuguese/avɐ/2 syllables
- Rhymes:Portuguese/abɐ
- Rhymes:Portuguese/abɐ/2 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns