frijole
noun
fri·jo·le frē-ˈhō-lē 
variants or less commonly frijol
frē-ˈhōl
ˈfrē-ˌ
plural frijoles frē-ˈhō-lēz
ˈfrē-ˌ
: any of various beans used in Mexican style cooking —usually used in plural
Word History
Etymology
American Spanish frijol, from Spanish, kidney bean, from earlier fesol, fresol, probably modification of Galician feijoo, from Latin phaseolus, diminutive of phaselus cowpea, from Greek phasēlos
First Known Use
1577, in the meaning defined above