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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)

1. 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.

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)

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.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin faba, from Proto-Indo-European *b?ab?- (“bean”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fa.va/

Noun

fava f (plural fave)

1. (botany) fava bean, broad bean
2. (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)

1. fava bean (Vicia faba)

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??.v?/
• Rhymes: -??v?

Noun

ava (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of kava

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   • 1891, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Bottle Imp

     […] the schooners plying up the coast for wood and ava and bananas.

Anagrams

• AAV

Estonian

Etymology

Derived from avama (“to open”).

Noun

ava (genitive ava, partitive ava)

1. hole, opening

Inflection

Derived terms

• avamäng

Related terms

• avatud
• avaus
• avar

Verb

ava

1. Second-person singular imperative form of avama.

Guaraní

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.??a/

Noun

ava

1. man, human
2. person
3. people

Italian

Etymology

From Latin ava.

Noun

ava f (plural ave)

1. female equivalent of avo (“ancestor”)

Latin

Etymology

Cf. avia. From the feminine of avus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a.u?a/, [?äu?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?a.va/, [???v?]

Noun

ava f (genitive avae); first declension

1. grandmother
2. old wives' tale

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• Friulian: ave
• Sardinian: aba
• Italian: ava

References

• ava in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ava in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• ava in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Portuguese

Interjection

ava

1. (Internet slang) Alternative form of ah, vá

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter) aua
• (Puter) ova

Etymology

From Latin aqua, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ek?eh?.

Noun

ava f

1. (Surmiran) water

Derived terms

• ava da bever
• ava minerala
• ava dalla spegna

Samoan

Noun

ava

1. passage through a coral reef for boats

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??v??], [??v??], [??va?]

Adverb

ava (not comparable)

1. at all
2. without stopping
3. of all

Derived terms

• no ava

Spanish

Noun

ava m or f (plural ava)

1. Ava (denomination of Guaraní)

Swedish

Etymology

Short for avannonsera

Verb

ava (present avar, preterite avade, supine avat, imperative ava)

1. (radio, slang) to announce a song or radio program at its end

Conjugation

Antonyms

• påa

Tolai

Alternative forms

• avat (when not preceding a verb)

Pronoun

ava

1. Second-person plural pronoun: you (many)

Declension

Turkish

Noun

ava

1. dative singular of av

Venetian

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin apis.

Noun

ava f (plural ave)

1. bee