Phrase guide

pasta e fagioli

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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Pronunciation

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  • UK: /ˌpastə ɛ faˈdʒəʊlɪ/
  • UK: /ˌpastə faˈdʒəʊlɪ/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -əʊli

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noun

Meaning 1

An Italian soup made with pasta and cannellini beans.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: pasta fazool

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pasta e fagioli (literally “pasta and beans”). Doublet of pasta fazool, a borrowing from Neapolitan.

Across languages

Translations

31 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: بَاسْتَا الحُبُوب (bāstā l-ḥubūb) — soup made with pasta and beans
  • Arabic: بَاسْتَا بِالفَاصُولِيَا (bāstā bi-l-fāṣūliyā) — soup made with pasta and beans
  • Arabic: مَعْكَرُونَة بِالفَاصُولِيَا (maʕkarūna bi-l-fāṣūliyā) — soup made with pasta and beans
  • Chinese Mandarin: 意大利麵豆湯 /意大利面豆汤 (yìdàlìmiàn dòu tāng) — soup made with pasta and beans
  • Finnish: pasta e fagioli -keitto — soup made with pasta and beans
  • Finnish: italialainen pasta-papukeitto — soup made with pasta and beans
  • Friulian: paste e fasûi — soup made with pasta and beans
  • German: Bohnen-Nudel-Suppe — soup made with pasta and beans
  • Greek: φασόλια και ζυμαρικά (fasólia kai zymariká) — soup made with pasta and beans
  • Greek: ζυμαρικά και φασόλια (zymariká kai fasólia) — soup made with pasta and beans
  • Italian: pasta e fagioli — soup made with pasta and beans
  • Japanese: パスタ・エ・ファジョーリ (pasuta e fajōri) — soup made with pasta and beans
  • Korean: 파스타 에 파지올리 (paseuta e pajiolli) — soup made with pasta and beans
  • Ladin: pasta e fajói — soup made with pasta and beans
  • Ladin: pasta e fajöi — soup made with pasta and beans
  • Ladin: pasta e fajei — soup made with pasta and beans
  • Ladin: pasta e fajuoi — soup made with pasta and beans
  • Ligurian: pasta e faxeu — soup made with pasta and beans
  • Lombard: pasta e fasöi — soup made with pasta and beans
  • Lombard: pasta e fasoeu — soup made with pasta and beans
  • Neapolitan: pasta e fasule — soup made with pasta and beans
  • Piedmontese: pasta e faseuj — soup made with pasta and beans
  • Polish: makaron z fasolą — soup made with pasta and beans
  • Russian: па́ста с фасо́лью (pásta s fasólʹju) — soup made with pasta and beans
  • Sicilian: pasta e fasoli — soup made with pasta and beans
  • Sicilian: pasta chî fasoli — soup made with pasta and beans
  • Sicilian: pasta e fasola — soup made with pasta and beans
  • Sicilian: pasta chî fasola — soup made with pasta and beans
  • Venetan: pasta e faxołi — soup made with pasta and beans
  • Venetan: pasta e faxułi — soup made with pasta and beans
  • Venetan: pasta e faxiołi — soup made with pasta and beans