faba

See also: Faba and fába

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin faba.

Noun

faba f

1. bean

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin faba.

Noun

faba f (plural fabes)

1. bean

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 Latin faba.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

faba f (plural fabas)

1. bean

References

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

Galician

Fabas

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese fava, from Latin faba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaba/ [ˈfa.β̞ɐ]
• Rhymes: -aba

Noun

faba f (plural fabas)

1. bean

   Synonym: feixón

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

Derived terms

• faba loba
• fabal
• Fabal
• Fabás
• Fabeira
• Fabeiros

 

References

• 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

Interlingua

Noun

faba (plural fabas)

1. bean

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	faba	fabae
genitive	fabae	fabārum
dative	fabae	fabīs
accusative	fabam	fabās
ablative	fabā	fabīs
vocative	faba	fabae

Derived terms

• fabāceus
• fabāginus
• fabālia
• fabālis
• fabārius
• fabātus
• (possibly) Fabius
• fabulus

 

Related terms

• fabācia
• fabālia
• fabātārium

 

Descendants

• Aromanian: fauã, favã
• Asturian: faba
• Catalan: fava
• Dalmatian: fua
• Esperanto: fabo
• Franc-Comtois: fave
• French: fève
• Friulian: fave
• Galician: faba
• Italian: fava
  • → English: fava
• → Kabyle: ibawen
• → Moroccan Amazigh: ⵉⴱⴰⵡⵏ (ibawn)
• Occitan: fava
• Portuguese: fava
• Romansch: fava, feva
• Sardinian: faa, faba, fae, fava
• Sicilian: fava, fafa
• Spanish: haba
  • → Mezquital Otomi: aba
• Translingual: Faba
• Venetan: 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.

Spanish

Noun

faba f (plural fabas)

1. Obsolete spelling of haba.

Further reading

• “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], 2024 December 10