fava
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian fava. Cognate with Portuguese fava and Spanish haba (“broad bean”). Doublet of bean.
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Noun edit
fava (plural favas or fava)
- A fava bean; a bean (seed or seed pod) of the plant Vicia faba or the plant itself.
- 1976, I. I. Gottesman, J. Shields, Rejoinder: Toward optimal arousal and away from original din, Schizophrenia Buletin, 2: 447-453, quoted in 2004, Jay Joseph, The Gene Illusion, page 269,
- Favism, a hemolytic anemia that follows the eating of fava or broadbeans, provides a textbook example of a genotype X environment interaction.
- 2001, Clifford A. Wright, Mediterranean Vegetables, page 153:
- When spring arrives the fava arrives and everyone in the Mediterranean can dream up a way of cooking it.
- 2012, John Navazio, The Organic Seed Grower: A Farmer's Guide to Vegetable Seed Production, page 268:
- In cool temperate zones favas are planted early in the growing season, several weeks before the last frost, and grown as a summer annual, much like other vegetable crops of the Fabaceae.
- 1976, I. I. Gottesman, J. Shields, Rejoinder: Toward optimal arousal and away from original din, Schizophrenia Buletin, 2: 447-453, quoted in 2004, Jay Joseph, The Gene Illusion, page 269,
Usage notes edit
The collocation fava bean is much more common, even for the plant.
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Catalan edit
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Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Central) [ˈfa.βə]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [ˈfa.və]
- IPA(key): (Valencian) [ˈfa.va]
- Rhymes: -avə, -abə, -ava
Noun edit
fava f (plural faves)
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Further reading edit
- “fava” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “fava”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin faba, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ- (“bean”).
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Noun edit
fava f (plural fave)
- (botany) fava bean, broad bean
- (informal, vulgar, slang) glans of the penis
- (vulgar, slang, Tuscany) cock
- Synonym: cazzo
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- Fava on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese fava, from Latin faba (“bean”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ- (“bean”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fava f (plural favas)