Glycine max (Common names)

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Names in common use

• English: soya bean (UK); soybean (USA)
• German: Sojabohne
• Dutch: soja
• Swedish: soja, sojaböna
• Danish: soja, sojabønne
• Norwegian: soyabønne
• Icelandic: sojabaun
  

• French: soja¹; soya
• Italian: soia, soja
• Spanish: soja¹, soya
• Catalan: soia, soja¹
• Portuguese: soja
• Romanian: soia
  

• Russian: соя - soja
• Polish: soja
• Czech: sója
• Slovak: sója
• Bulgarian: соя - soja
• Croatian: soja
• Serb: соја
• Slovenian: soja
• Macedonian: соја - soja
  

• Latvian: soja
• Lithuanian: gauruotoji soja, soja
• Albanian: sojë
• Greek: σόγια; σοΐα, σοΰα - soya, soïa
• Turkish: soya
• Maltese:
• Hungarian: szójabab
• Finnish: soijapapu
• Estonian: sojauba, soja
  

Sources and commentaries

(1) The French name was borrowed from Dutch as a written word, and is pronounced [soʒa].For the same reasons, soja is pronounced [soʒa] in Catalan and [soxa] in Spanich.