different between kava vs fava

English

Etymology

From Tongan kava, in turn from Proto-Polynesian *kawa.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

kava (countable and uncountable, plural kavas)

1. A plant from the South Pacific, Piper methysticum.
2. An intoxicating beverage made from the kava plant.

Translations

Alternative forms

• ava
• yava

Esperanto

Etymology

From kavo (“cave, cavity, hollow, pit”) +? -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kava/
• Hyphenation: ka?va

Adjective

kava (accusative singular kavan, plural kavaj, accusative plural kavajn)

1. hollow, concave

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??a?va/
• Rhymes: -?a?va
• Homophone: kavað

Verb

kava (third person singular past indicative kavaði, third person plural past indicative kavaðu, supine kavað)

1. to snow
2. to dive

Conjugation

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k???/, [?k???]
• Rhymes: -???
• Syllabification: ka?va

Noun

kava

1. A spokeshave.

Declension

Synonyms

• kavahöylä

Anagrams

• vaka

Ido

Adjective

kava

1. sunken, hollow

Derived terms

• kavajo

Italian

Noun

kava f (plural kave)

1. kava

   Synonym: cava

Japanese

Romanization

kava

1. R?maji transcription of ???

Lithuanian

Noun

kava f

1. coffee

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

kava

1. simple past and past participle of kave

Alternative forms

• kavet
• kavde (simple past)
• kavd (past participle)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse kafa.

Alternative forms

• kave (e infinitive)

Verb

kava (present tense kavar, past tense kava, past participle kava, passive infinitive kavast, present participle kavande, imperative kav)

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Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

kava n

1. definite plural of kav

References

• “kava” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ????? (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Arabic ???????? (qahwa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??a/
• Hyphenation: ka?va

Noun

kàva f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. coffee

Declension

Synonyms

• kafa
• kahva

Slovene

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ????? (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Arabic ???????? (qahwa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kà??a/

Noun

káva f

1. coffee (beverage)

Inflection

Tongan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *kawa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.va/

Adjective

kava

1. bitter

Noun

kava

1. kava

Descendants

• ? English: kava
• ? Italian: kava
• ? Japanese: ??? (kava)

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)