Phaseolus coccineus (Common names)

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Names in common use

• English: runner bean, scarlet runner bean; butter bean (South Africa)
• German: Feuerbohne, Prunkbohne, türkische Bohne
• Dutch: pronkboon
• Swedish: böna
• Danish: bønne
• Norwegian: bønne
• Icelandic:
  

• French: haricot d'Espagne; haricot géant
• Italian: fagiolo di Spagna
• Spanish: ayocote
• Catalan: fesol fava de Sóller, mongeta vermella
• Portuguese: feijoca, feijão espanhol
• Romanian: fasole
  

• Russian: фасоль, фасоль обыкновенная - fasolj obyknovennaja
• Polish: fasola, fasola zwykła
• Czech: fazol, fazol obyčejný
• Slovak: fazul'a obyčajná
• Bulgarian: фасул, боб
• Croatian: pasulj
• Serb: пасуљ
• Slovenian: fižol
  

• Albanian: fasule (fasulja with the article), groshë
• Greek: φασόλι, φασολιά, φασουλιά - fasoli, fasolia, fasoulia
• Turkish: fasulye
• Hungarian: veteménybab, paszuly, paszulybab
• Finnish: torapapu
  

Sources and commentaries

Beans may be named according to many criteria: growth type (bush / climbing) or product: young pods (French bean, wax bean), form and colour of seed (kidney, pea), popping seeds (pop bean). Most popular names are limited to one or the other use, and it is difficult to assign them to a particular group. MC

• Rumanian
  • regional names: mazăre, păsulă (Borza)
• Turkish
  • fasulya (Bedevian)