Vigna radiata (Common names)

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Names in common use

• English: mung bean, green gram, golden gram / bean sprouts
• German: Mung-Bohne
• Dutch: mungboon, katjang idjo / taugé
• Swedish: mungböna
• Danish: mung-bønne
• Norwegian: mungbønne
• Icelandic:
  

• French: haricot mungo; ambérique (Réunion) /germes de mungo, germes de soja, pousses de soja (pl)
• Italian: fagiolo mungo
• Spanish: judía mung, judía mungo, fríjol chino, soja verde / brotes de soja, germinado de soya
• Catalan: mongeta mung
• Portuguese: feijão mungo
• Romanian:
  

• Russian: боб мунг, маш, фасоль золотистая / ростки бобов мунг - bob mung, maš, fasolj zolotistaja / rostki bobov mung
• Polish: fasola złota, fasolka mung / kiełki sojowe
• Czech: mungo fazole; zelená soja
• Slovak:
• Bulgarian: папуда
• Croatian:
• Serb:
• Slovenian:
  

• Albanian:
• Greek: μάχος, πράσινο φασουλάκι, φασουλάκι τῶν καλαμῶν - makhos, prasino fasoulaki, fasoulaki ton kalamon
• Turkish:
• Hungarian:
• Finnish: mungopapu
  

Sources and commentaries

(1) In French, germes de soja is the usual name for bean sprouts. The governement tries to eradicate it, with little success. Most bean sprouts are produced from seeds of Vigna radiata, although some may also be produced from the true soybean, Glycine max. MC

• Greek
  • Φασίολος ὁ Μάχος. ... ἡ πρασινόσπερμος δὲ αὐτοῦ διαφορὰ (Phasolus Mungo viridissimus) ἀπαντᾶ καλλιεργουμένη καὶ εἰς τὴν νοτ. Ἰταλίαν, τὴν Κύπρον καὶ τὴν νοτ. Πελοππόνησου (Μεσσηνίαν καὶ Λακωνίαν). Καὶ εἰς μὲν τὴν Κύπρον φέρει ἐξελληνισμένον τὸ ἀραβικὸν τοὺ εἴδους ὄνομα, Μάχος, εἰς δὲ τὴν Πελοππόνησον εἶναι γνωστὸν ὑπὸ τὸ ὄνομα Πράσινον φασουλάκι. Τὸ ὄσπριον τοῦτο ἀπαντᾶ εἰς τὴν ἀγορὰν τῶν Αθηνῶν ἔνθα ὀνομάζεται Φασουλάκια τῶν Καλαμῶν. - Fasiolos o Makhos. ... The variety with green seeds of this species (Phasolus Mungo viridissimus) is found cultivated also in southern Italy, in Cyprus and in southern Pelopponese (Messinia and Lakonia). And in Cyprus, it bears in Greek its Arabic name, makhos, in Pelopponese it is known by the name prasinon fasoulaki [green bean]. Its pods are found in Athens markets where they are called fasoulakia ton Kalamon [stubble beans]. Gennadios, 1959.