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fabada

fabada noun: a dish from Asturias, made of white beans, pork products, chorizo and various other ingredients.

fabada: a dish from Asturias, made of white beans, pork products, chorizo and various other ingredients
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Noun

fabada (plural fabadas)

  1. A dish from Asturias, made of white beans, pork products, chorizo and various other ingredients.
    • His other brother, Candido, explained: “In the north of Spain, you have fabada; in the south, paella. But tortilla is everywhere. The tortilla is 150 percent Spain.”2015 June 17, Francis Lam, “The King of Tapas”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Synonyms of fabada

Forms of fabada

pluralfabadas

Origin of fabada

Borrowed from Asturian fabada.

Phrases with fabada

Questions about fabada

What does fabada mean?
Fabada means a dish from Asturias, made of white beans, pork products, chorizo and various other ingredients.
What part of speech is fabada?
Fabada is a noun.
What is the plural of fabada?
The plural of fabada is fabadas.

Words near fabada in the dictionary

  1. fabacean
  2. fabaceans
  3. fabaceous
  4. Fabacher
  5. Fabachers
  6. fabada
  7. fabada asturiana
  8. fabadas
  9. fabadas asturianas
  10. fabavirus
  11. fabaviruses

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