feijão

== Portuguese == === Alternative forms === freijão, fãijão, fajão, fajom, fajõu, fajou, fazau, feijẽo, fejẽo, fejõ, feinjão, fejã, fenjão, freixom === Etymology === From Old Galician-Portuguese *feijõo, variant of feijoo, from Latin phaseolus, probably from Ancient Greek φάσηλος (phásēlos). Doublet of Feijó. Cognate with Galician feixón, Ladino fijon, Spanish frijol, Catalan fesol and Italian fagiolo. === Pronunciation === (Northeast Brazil) IPA(key): /fɛjˈʒɐ̃w̃/ (Rural Central Brazil) IPA(key): /fi(j)ˈʒɐ̃w̃/ Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃ Hyphenation: fei‧jão === Noun === feijão m (plural feijões) bean (seed) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Macanese: fijám → Japanese: フェイジャン (feijan) ==== See also ==== fava === Further reading === “feijão”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “feijão”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026