feijoada

[ Portuguese fey-zhoo-ah-dah; English fey-jwah-duh ]

noun

, Brazilian Cooking.

1. a dish of rice and black beans baked with various kinds of meat and sausage.

Word History and Origins

Origin of feijoada¹

< Brazilian Portuguese, derivative of Portuguese feijão bean, earlier feijoes (plural) < Latin faseolus, diminutive of fasēlus a legume, perhaps the cowpea < Greek phásēlos; -ade ¹