feijão

Portuguese

feijão

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

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fe(j)ˈʒɐ̃w̃/ [fe(ɪ̯)ˈʒɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fɐjˈʒɐ̃w̃/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fɐjˈʒɐ̃w̃/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /fejˈʒɐ̃w̃/
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /fejˈʒɐ̃w̃/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /feˈʒɐ̃w̃/

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /fɛjˈʒɐ̃w̃/
• (Rural Central Brazil) IPA^(key): /fi(j)ˈʒɐ̃w̃/
• Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
• Hyphenation: fei‧jão

Noun

feijão m (plural feijões)

1. bean (seed)

Derived terms

• feijão com arroz
• feijão-branco
• feijão-carioca
• feijão-de-frade
• feijão-de-vara
• feijão-preto
• feijão-tropeiro
• feijão-vermelho
• feijãozinho (diminutive)
• feijoada
• feijoeiro

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