faba
Aragonese
Etymology
From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).
Asturian
Etymology
From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).
Related terms
- faba de mayu
- fabada
- fabes con amasueles
References
- Academia de la Llingua Asturiana (2000). Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana (1ª edición). →ISBN. on-line version.
Fala
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese fava, from Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfaba/
Galician

Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese fava, from Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfaβa̝/
Noun
faba f (plural fabas)
- bean
- Synonym: feixón
- bean plant
- inflammatory sickness of the mouth of the horses
Derived terms
- faba loba
- fabal
- Fabal
- Fabás
- Fabeira
- Fabeiros
References
- “fava” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “fava” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “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.
Latin
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfa.ba/, [ˈfäbä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfa.ba/, [ˈfäːbä]
Noun
faba f (genitive fabae); first declension
- bean
- horse bean
- a small object with the shape of a bean.
Declension
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Related terms
- fabācia
- fabālia
- fabātārium
Descendants
- Aromanian: fauã, favã
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
- Catalan: fava
- Dalmatian: fua
- Esperanto: fabo
- French: fève
- Friulian: fave
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
- Italian: fava
- → English: fava
- → Kabyle: ibawen
- → Moroccan Amazigh: ⵉⴱⴰⵡⵏ (ibawn)
- Occitan: fava
- Portuguese: fava
- Romansch: fava, feva
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
- Sicilian: fava, fafa
- Spanish: haba
- → Mezquital Otomi: aba
- Translingual: Faba
- Venetian: fava
- → Welsh: ffa
References
- “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
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “faba”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 197
Spanish
Further reading
- “faba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014