fava

See also: Fava and fává

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fava. Cognate with Portuguese fava and Spanish haba (“broad bean”). Doublet of bean.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfɑː.və/
• Rhymes: -ɑːvə

Noun

fava (plural favas or fava)

1. A fava bean; a bean (seed or seed pod) of plants of species 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.

   • 2007, Cat Cora et al., Cooking from the Hip‎, →ISBN, page 197:

     Add the favas and cook for 1 minute.

   • 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.

Usage notes

The collocation fava bean is much more common, even for the plant.

Derived terms

• fava bean
• favism
• Favaloru

Translations

fava bean — see broad bean

References

• “fava”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “fava bean”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• fava on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin faba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈfa.βə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈfa.və]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈfa.va]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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• Rhymes: -ava

Noun

fava f (plural faves)

1. fava bean

Derived terms

• favera
• favó

Further reading

• “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, 2025

Italian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin faba, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ- (“bean”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa.va/
• Rhymes: -ava
• Hyphenation: fà‧va

Noun

fava f (plural fave)

1. (botany) fava bean, broad bean
2. (informal, vulgar, slang) glans of the penis
3. (vulgar, slang, Tuscany) cock

   Synonym: cazzo

Derived terms

• favata
• favetta
• favino

Related terms

• faverella
• faveto
• favismo
• sfavare

See also

• fagiolo

Further reading

• Fava on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese fava, from Latin faba (“bean”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ- (“bean”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.vɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.vɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.va/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.vɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.vɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.bɐ/ [ˈfa.βɐ]

• Rhymes: -avɐ, (Northern Portugal) -abɐ
• Hyphenation: fa‧va

Noun

fava f (plural favas)

1. fava bean (Vicia faba)

Further reading

• “fava”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “fava”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025