faba

From Latin faba.

faba f

1. bean

From Latin faba.

faba f (plural fabes)

1. bean

• faba de mayu
• fabada
• fabes con amasueles

• Academia de la Llingua Asturiana (2000). Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana (1ª edición). →ISBN. on-line version.

From Old Galician-Portuguese fava, from Latin faba.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaba/
• Rhymes: -aba
• Syllabification: fa‧ba

faba f (plural fabas)

1. bean

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎, 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

From Old Galician-Portuguese fava, from Latin faba.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaba/
• Rhymes: -aba

faba f (plural fabas)

1. bean

   Synonym: feixón

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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “fava”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “fava”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “faba”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “faba”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “faba”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

faba (plural fabas)

1. bean

From Proto-Italic *fabā (“bean”). Akin to Proto-Slavic *bobъ, Ancient Greek φακός (phakós) and Proto-Germanic *baunō,^[1] ultimately likely from a European substrate.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ba/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ba/,

faba f (genitive fabae); first declension

1. bean
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.169–170:

     Pinguia cūr illīs gustentur lārda Kalendīs,
     mixtaque cum calidō sit faba farre, rogās?

     Why is it that bacon fats are to be eaten on the Kalends,
     and having been mixed with hot bean far, you ask?

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

First-declension noun.

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• faba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

faba f (plural fabas)

1. Obsolete spelling of haba.

• “faba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014