feijoada

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɛj.ʒo.a.da/

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Noun

feijoada f (plural feijoadas)

1. feijoada

Portuguese

1. Feijoada

Etymology

From feijão (“bean”) +‎ -ada.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fe(j).ʒoˈa.dɐ/ [fe(ɪ̯).ʒoˈa.dɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fe(j).ʒoˈa.dɐ/ [fe(ɪ̯).ʒoˈa.dɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /fe(j).ʒoˈa.da/ [fe(ɪ̯).ʒoˈa.da]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fɐjˈʒwa.dɐ/ [fɐjˈʒwa.ðɐ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fɐjˈʒwa.dɐ/ [fɐjˈʒwa.ðɐ]
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /fejˈʒwa.dɐ/ [fejˈʒwa.ðɐ]
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /fejˈʒwa.dɐ/ [fejˈʒwa.ðɐ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /feˈʒwa.dɐ/ [feˈʒwa.ðɐ]

• Hyphenation: fei‧jo‧a‧da

Noun

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

Further reading

• “feijoada”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “feijoada”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
• feijoada on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt