faba

From Latin faba.

faba f

1. bean

From Latin faba.

faba f (plural fabes)

1. bean

• faba de mayu
• fabada
• fabes con amasueles

• “faba” in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana (1ª edición). Academia de la Llingua Asturiana (2000). →ISBN.

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)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

From Old Galician-Portuguese fava, from Latin faba.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaba/ [ˈfa.β̞ɐ]
• 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: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• 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): [ˈfaː.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 [these] having been mixed with hot bean[s] [and] 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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaba/ [ˈfa.β̞a]
• Rhymes: -aba
• Syllabification: fa‧ba

faba f (plural fabas)

1. obsolete spelling of haba (also used regionally)

faba

1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of far

• “faba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024