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habas.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
habas.
Principal English Translation: 

beans, broad beans, fava beans
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
anbas, ahuax
Attestations from sources in English: 

Se Carga tlaOtli yhua se Carga Anbas = a load of shelled maize and a load of beans [habas] (San Pedro Tototepec, Toluca Valley, 1728)
Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 100.

themes: 
Food, Eating, Cooking