feijoada

From Portuguese feijoada, from feijão (“bean”).

• IPA^(key): /feɪʒˈwɑːdə/
• Rhymes: -ɑːdə

feijoada (countable and uncountable, plural feijoadas)

1. A stew of beans with beef and pork, considered the national dish of Brazil.
   • 2003, Peter Robb, A Death in Brazil, Bloomsbury, published 2005, page 84:

     There are about a dozen kinds of beef and pork, fresh, smoked and salt, in a feijoada.

• IPA^(key): /fɛj.ʒo.a.da/

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feijoada f (plural feijoadas)

1. feijoada

From feijão (“bean”) +‎ -ada.

• Hyphenation: fei‧jo‧a‧da

feijoada f (plural feijoadas)

1. (cooking) feijoada (dish made of beans and several kinds of meat)
2. large quantity of beans
3. (figurative) confusion, mess
4. (humorous) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

• “feijoada”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “feijoada”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• feijoada on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt