faba
See also: Faba and fába
Aragonese
Etymology
From Latin faba.
Noun
faba f
- bean
Asturian
Etymology
From Latin faba.
Noun
faba f (plural fabes)
- 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.
Galician
Fabas
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese fava, from Latin faba.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfaβa̝/
Noun
faba f (plural fabas)
- bean
- Synonym: feixón
- bean plant
- inflammatory sickness of the mouth of the horses
Derived terms
- Fabal
- fabal
- faba loba
- Fabás
- Fabeira
- Fabeiros
References
- “fava” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “fava” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “faba” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “faba” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “faba” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Interlingua
Noun
faba (plural fabas)
- bean
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *fafā[1], from Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ- (“bean”). Cognate with Faliscan haba (“bean”), and more distantly with Scots bene, bein (“bean”), West Frisian bean (“bean”), Dutch boon (“bean”), German Bohne (“bean”), Danish bønne (“bean”), Icelandic baun (“bean”), English bean, Russian боб (bob, “bean”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfa.ba/, [ˈfäbä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfa.ba/, [ˈfäːbä]
Noun
faba f (genitive fabae); first declension
- 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?
(See the Latin far; see Cardea for more on the Kalendae fabariae, or Bean-Kalends.)
- Why is it that bacon fats are to be eaten on the Kalends,
- Pinguia cūr illīs gustentur lārda Kalendīs,
- horse bean
- a small object with the shape of a bean.
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | 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
- Fabius (possibly)
- fabulus
Related terms
- fabācia
- fabālia
- fabātārium
Descendants
- Aromanian: fauã, favã
- Asturian: faba
- Catalan: fava
- Dalmatian: fua
- Esperanto: fabo
- 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
- Venetian: 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
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “faba”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 197: “*fafā”
Spanish
Noun
faba f (plural fabas)
- Obsolete spelling of haba
Further reading
- “faba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014