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fava¹

  • /ˈfɑː.və/ US

Rhymes with -ɑːvə

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Italian fava. Cognate with Portuguese fava and Spanish haba (“broad bean”). Doublet of bean.

noun favas · fava

  1. A fava bean; a bean (seed or seed pod) of plants of species 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 geno

Fava²

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Italian Fava.

proper noun Favas

  1. A surname from Italian.

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noun fava bean

Españolhaba, faba

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@misc{fava_2026,
  title = {fava},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fava},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}