Noun: fava
| Singular | fava |
| Plural | favas; fava |
Sample Sentences
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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,
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Favism, a hemolytic anemia that follows the eating of fava or broadbeans, provides a textbook example of a genotype X environment interaction.
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When spring arrives the fava arrives and everyone in the Mediterranean can dream up a way of cooking it. [2001, Clifford A. Wright, Mediterranean Vegetables, page 153:]
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Add the favas and cook for 1 minute. [2007, Cat Cora et al., Cooking from the Hip, →ISBN, page 197:]
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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. [2012, John Navazio, The Organic Seed Grower: A Farmer's Guide to Vegetable Seed Production, page 268:]
Nouns inflected like fava
whiting,
Munduruku,
Mundurucu,
sempai,
senpai,
saseng,
satang,
cunjevoi,
sansei,
Namboothiri,
somoni,
Sentinelese,
siopao,
shogun,
shinza,
Barakzai,
Chippewyan,
Diaguita,
shōgun,
thermal horsepower, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian fava. Cognate with Portuguese fava and Spanish haba (“broad bean”). Doublet of bean. See: Italian Nouns '
fava', Portuguese Nouns '
fava', Spanish Nouns '
haba'.
Verbs referencing "fava"
Spanish Nouns
haba.