Vicia faba (Common names)

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Common names: Vigna radiata


Names in common use


  • English: broad bean; faba bean (USA); pigeon bean, tick bean2; horse bean3
  • German: Ackerbohne, Pferdebohne, Puffbohne
  • Dutch: tuinboon, paardeboon
  • Swedish:
  • Danish:
  • Norwegian:
  • Icelandic:


  • French: fève; fève des marais (B); gourgane (Canada)1; féverole2
  • Italian: fava
  • Spanish: haba; haboncillo2; haba caballar3
  • Catalan:
  • Portuguese: fava
  • Romanian:


  • Russian:
  • Polish:
  • Czech:
  • Slovak:
  • Bulgarian:
  • Croatian:
  • Serb:
  • Slovenian:


  • Albanian:
  • Greek:
  • Turkish:
  • Hungarian: óriás paszulybab
  • Finnish:

Sources and commentaries

(1) In Canadian French, fève is a usual name of Phaseolus vulgaris, givinc 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.