different between fav vs fava
fav
English
Alternative forms
- fave
Noun
fav (plural favs)
- Alternative spelling of fave
Adjective
fav (comparative more fav, superlative most fav)
- Alternative spelling of fave
Verb
fav (third-person singular simple present favs, present participle faving, simple past and past participle favd)
- Alternative spelling of fave
Anagrams
- AFV, VFA
Cornish
Noun
fav f (singulative faven)
- beans
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fava
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian fava. Cognate with Portuguese fava (“broad bean”) Spanish haba (“broad bean”). Doublet of bean.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?f??.v?/
- Rhymes: -??v?
Noun
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
The collocation fava bean is much more common, even for the plant.
Derived terms
- fava bean
- favism
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin faba.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /?fa.v?/
- (Central) IPA(key): /?fa.b?/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /?fa.va/
- Rhymes: -a?a
Noun
fava f (plural faves)
- 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.
Italian
Etymology
From Latin faba, from Proto-Indo-European *b?ab?- (“bean”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fa.va/
Noun
fava f (plural fave)
- (botany) fava bean, broad bean
- (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 Portuguese fava, from Latin faba (“bean”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ab?- (“bean”).
Pronunciation
- (Portugal, Brazil) IPA(key): /?fa.v?/
- Hyphenation: fa?va
- Rhymes: -av?
Noun
fava f (plural favas)
- fava bean (Vicia faba)
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