different between fava vs java

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

• IPA^(key): /?d???.v?/

Etymology 1

From Java, an island on and near which a particular blend of coffee is made. The US use of the term to refer to any coffee originated in San Francisco, an early center of the US coffee trade.

Noun

java (countable and uncountable, plural javas)

1. A blend of coffee imported from the island of Java.
2. (US, colloquial) Coffee in general.

Related terms

• Java

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French java.

Noun

java (plural javas)

1. A dance popular in France in the early 20th century.

Further reading

• Java (dance) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Albanian

Noun

java f

1. definite of javë

French

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.va/

Noun

java f (plural javas)

1. (dance) a popular dance developed in 1920s Paris

Derived terms

• faire la java

Further reading

• java (danse) on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Hungarian

Etymology

Lexicalization of the jav- stem variant of the adjective jó (“good”) +? -a (possessive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?j?v?]
• Hyphenation: ja?va
• Rhymes: -v?

Noun

java (uncountable)

1. the best (part) (the best or most important part of something)

2. someone's benefit, advantage, interest

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• java , redirecting to certain senses of jó in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Latvian

Noun

java f (4th declension)

1. (construction) mortar (building material)

Declension

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Sanskrit ?? (java).

Noun

java m

1. speed
2. strength

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From j?v.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j???a/
• Hyphenation: ja?va

Noun

jáva f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. reality
2. the state opposite of the sleeping or dreaming state, wakefulness

Declension

Related terms

• j?v

References

• “java” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal