different between lava vs fava

English

Etymology

From Italian lava (“lava”), originally, in Naples, a torrent of rain overflowing the streets, from lavare (“to wash”). See etymology for the English verb lave.

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) enPR: lä?v?, IPA^(key): /?l??v?/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?l??v?/, /?læv?/
• Homophone: larva (in non-rhotic accents)
• Rhymes: -??v?

Noun

lava (countable and uncountable, plural lavas)

1. The molten rock ejected by a volcano from its crater or fissured sides.
2. (informal, proscribed) Magma.
3. A shade of red, named after the volcanic lava.

Usage notes

Geologists make a distinction between magma (molten rock underground) and lava (molten rock on the surface).

Hyponyms

• cryolava

Derived terms

• lava flow

Related terms

• lava lamp
• lava millstone
• lava ware

Translations

See also

• aa
• pahoehoe

Anagrams

• Alva, aval

Azerbaijani

Noun

lava (definite accusative lavan?, plural lavalar)

1. lava

Declension

References

• “lava” in Obastan.com.

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?la.v?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?la.b?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?la.va/

Noun

lava f (plural laves)

1. lava

Further reading

• “lava” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Italian lava.

Noun

lava

1. lava

Declension

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: la?va

Noun

lava c (uncountable)

1. lava

References

• “lava” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

Estonian

Etymology

From Old East Slavic ???? (lava), from Proto-Slavic *lava

Noun

lava (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. stage

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• lava in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *lava (compare Estonian lava, Livonian lov?, Veps lava), borrowed from Proto-Baltic *l???w?? (compare Latvian l?va, Lithuanian lova).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

lava

1. bed (platform of a truck or other vehicle that supports the load)
2. platform (raised stage for speeches etc.)
3. stage (in a theatre etc.)

Declension

Compounds

• avolava
• kuormalava
• lavakuorma-auto
• lavashow
• lavasäteily
• tanssilava

Anagrams

• vala

French

Verb

lava

1. third-person singular past historic of laver

Anagrams

• aval

Galician

Pronunciation

Noun

lava f (plural lavas)

1. lava

Further reading

• “lava” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Italian

Verb

lava

1. third-person singular present indicative of lavare
2. second-person singular imperative of lavare

Noun

lava f (plural lave)

1. lava

Related terms

• lavico

Latin

Verb

lav?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of lav?

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Italian lava (Neapolitan dialect)

Noun

lava m (definite singular lavaen, indefinite plural lavaer, definite plural lavaene)

1. (geology) lava

Derived terms

• lavastrøm

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• lavene

Noun

lava m or n

1. definite neuter plural of lav

References

• “lava” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Italian lava (Neapolitan dialect)

Noun

lava m (definite singular lavaen, indefinite plural lavaer, definite plural lavaene)

1. (geology) lava

Etymology 2

Noun

lava n

1. definite plural of lav

References

• “lava” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?la.va/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?la.v?/
• Hyphenation: la?va
• Rhymes: -av?

Etymology 1

From Italian (Neapolitan or Calabrese dialect), lava (“a torrent of rain which washed the streets”), from Latin lav? (“I wash”), from Proto-Indo-European *lowh?-

Noun

lava f (plural lavas)

1. lava (melted rock)

Related terms

• magma

Etymology 2

Verb

lava

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of lavar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of lavar

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?lava]

Noun

lava f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of lav?

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

láva f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (geology) lava

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Italian lava (“lava”) (Neapolitan dialect), from lavare (“to wash”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?laba/, [?la.??a]

Noun

lava f (plural lavas)

1. lava
2. washing

Verb

lava

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of lavar.

Swedish

Noun

lava c

1. lava

Derived terms

• lavalampa

Tokelauan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *lawa. Cognates include Hawaiian lawa and Samoan lava.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?la.va/
• Hyphenation: la?va

Verb

lava

1. (stative) to be enough

Particle

lava

1. Expresses exclusiveness of the preceding word; just, only
2. Intensifies the preceding word; just (the same), right (now)
3. Forms a reflexive from the preceding personal pronoun; -self

References

• R. Simona, editor (1986) Tokelau Dictionary?^[2], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 181

Tsonga

Verb

lava

1. to want

Veps

Etymology

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

Noun

lava

1. floor
2. platform

Inflection

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “????????, ???, ??????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

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)