# faba
## 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.

## Fala
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese fava, from Latin faba.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfaba/
* Rhymes: -aba
* Syllabification: fa‧ba

### Noun

faba f (plural fabas)
* bean

### References

* Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎, 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese fava, from Latin faba.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfaba/ [ˈfa.β̞ɐ]
* Rhymes: -aba

### Noun

faba f (plural fabas)
* bean
    Synonym: feixón
* bean plant
* inflammatory sickness of the mouth of the horses

#### Derived terms

* faba loba
* fabal
* Fabal
* Fabás
* Fabeira
* Fabeiros

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “fava”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “fava”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, 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 Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé 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)
* 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: /ˈfa.ba/, [ˈfäbä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /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?
* horse bean
* a small object with the shape of a bean.

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* fabāceus
* fabāginus
* fabālia
* fabālis
* fabārius
* fabātus
* (possibly) Fabius
* fabulus

#### Related terms

* fabācia
* fabālia
* fabātārium

#### Descendants

* Aromanian: fauã, favã
* Asturian: faba
* Catalan: fava
* Dalmatian: fua
* Esperanto: fabo
* Franc-Comtois: fave
* 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
* → Tashelhit: abaw
* Translingual: Faba
* Venetan: 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

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfaba/ [ˈfa.β̞a]
* Rhymes: -aba
* Syllabification: fa‧ba

### Noun

faba f (plural fabas)
* Obsolete spelling of haba.

### Verb

faba
* 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, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10