feijoada

[ Portuguese fey-zhoo-ah-dah; English fey-jwah-duh ]
/ Portuguese ˌfeɪ ʒʊˈɑ dɑ; English feɪˈdʒwɑ də /

noun Brazilian Cookery.

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

Origin of feijoada

< Brazilian Portuguese, derivative of Portuguese feijão bean, earlier feijoes (plural) < Latin faseolus, diminutive of fasēlus a legume, perhaps the cowpea < Greek phásēlos; see -ade1