faba

See also: Faba and fába

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin faba.

Noun

faba f

1. bean

Asturian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Italic *fabā

Latin faba

Asturian faba

From Latin faba.

Noun

faba f (plural fabes)

1. bean

Related terms

• faba de mayu
• fabada
• fabes con amasueles

Further reading

• “faba”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1st edition, Academy of the Asturian Language [Asturian: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana], 2000, →ISBN
• García Arias, Xosé Lluis (2002–2004), “faba”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (overall work in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN

Fala

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Italic *fabā

Latin faba

Old Galician-Portuguese fava

Fala faba

Inherited 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), 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN, page 141

Galician

Fabas

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Italic *fabā

Latin faba

Old Galician-Portuguese fava

Galician faba

Inherited 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

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “fava”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “faba”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Santamarina, 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 Santamarina, Ernesto X. 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]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfaː.ba]

Noun

faba f (genitive fabae); first declension

1. bean
   • 8 CE, Ovidius, 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
• → Basque: baba
• Catalan: fava
• Dalmatian: fua
• Esperanto: fabo
• Franc-Comtois: fave
• French: fève
• Friulian: fave
• Galician: faba
• Italian: fava
  • → English: fava
• → Kabyle: ibawen
• Occitan: fava
• Portuguese: fava
• Romansh: fava, feva
• Sardinian: faa, faba, fae, fava
• Sicilian: fava, fafa
• Spanish: haba
  • → Mezquital Otomi: aba
• → Tashelhit: abaw
• Translingual: Faba
• Venetan: fava
• → Proto-Brythonic: *fav
  • Middle Breton: faff
    • Breton: fav
  • Cornish: fav
  • Middle Welsh: ffa
    • 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, 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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaba/ [ˈfa.β̞a]
• Rhymes: -aba
• Syllabification: fa‧ba

Noun

faba f (plural fabas)

1. (obsolete outside Asturias and Galicia, rustic in Huesca) alternative form of haba

Derived terms

• faba de la granja

Verb

faba

1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of far

Further reading

• “faba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “faba”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA