Vicia faba (Common names)

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Names in common use

• English: broad bean; faba bean (USA); pigeon bean, tick bean²; horse bean³
• German: Ackerbohne, Pferdebohne, Puffbohne
• Dutch: tuinboon, paardeboon
• Swedish: bondböna; åkerböna², hästböna³
• Danish: hestebønne
• Norwegian: hestebønne; bondebønne, fababønne, favabønne
• Icelandic:
  

• French: fève; fève des marais (B); gourgane (Canada)¹; féverole, féverolle²
• Italian: fava
• Spanish: haba; haboncillo²; haba caballar³
• Catalan: fava
• Portuguese: fava
• Romanian: bob
  

• Russian: боб, боб конский - bob, bob konskij
• Polish: bób; bobik²
• Czech: bob obecný, bob koňský
• Slovak: bôb
• Bulgarian: бакла
• Croatian: konjski bob
• Serb: боб
• Slovenian: bob
  

• Latvian:
• Lithuanian:
• Albanian: bathë (batha with the article)
• Greek: κουκιά (f) / κουκί (n sg, κουκιά n pl) - kukia, kuki
• Turkish: bakla
• Maltese: ful
• Hungarian: lóbab, lóbükköny, babó
• Finnish: härkäpapu
• Estonian:
  

Sources and commentaries

(1) In Canadian French, fève is a usual name of Phaseolus vulgaris, giving the famous dish "fèves au lard". MC

(2) Only for Minor Group, including types with small roundish seeds, grown for fodder or protein crop in Europe and Northern America, but for food in Egypt (arabic fūl).

(3) Only for Equina Group, sometimes distinguished, with intermediate types of seeds.