Phaseolus lunatus (Common names)

Common names: Phaseolus vulgaris

Names in common use

• English: Lima bean, Sieva bean, butter bean
• German: Limabohne, Kapbohne, Sievabohne
• Dutch: limaboon
• Swedish:
• Danish:
• Norwegian: limabønne
• Icelandic:
  

• French: haricot de Lima; pois du Cap (Réunion); pois savon, pois souche (Antilles)
• Italian: fagiolo di Lima
• Spanish: poroto de manteca, frijol lima; pallar (Peru)
• Catalan:
• Portuguese: feijoa; feijão espadinho (Angola)
• Romanian:
  

• Russian: фасоль лима - fasolj lima
• Polish: fasola półksężycowata, fasola limeńska
• Czech: Lima-bob, fazol měsiční
• Slovak:
• Bulgarian:
• Croatian:
• Serb:
• Slovenian:
  

• Albanian:
• Greek:
• Turkish:
• Hungarian: holdas bab, madagaszkári bab
• Finnish:
  

Sources and commentaries

The Lima bean being quite unknown in Europe, names don't exist, are only scholarly names or are not stabilized. MC

• English
  • In the USA, immature green beans are called butter beans, and much used as the flageolet beans in France. MC