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• /biːn/
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• rhymes with -iːn
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• homophone: bean
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• homophone: been
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• /ˈbi(ː)n/
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• [ˈbɪin]
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Probably an occupational surname for a bean farmer, from bean.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bhabh-? Proto-Germanic *babnōder.? Proto-Germanic *baunō Proto-West Germanic *baunu Old English bēan Middle English bene English bean From Middle English bene, from Old English bēan, from Proto-West Germanic *baunu, from Proto-Germanic *baunō (“bean”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhabh- (“bean”). Cognate with Scots bene, bein (“bean”), North Frisian buan (“bean”), Saterland Frisian Boone (“bean”), West Frisian bean, beanne (“bean”), Dutch boon (“bean”), German Bohne (“bean”), Luxembourgish Boun (“bean”), Danish bønne (“bean”), Faroese bøn, bøna (“bean”), Icelandic baun (“bean”), Norwegian Bokmål bønne (“bean”), Norwegian Nynorsk bauna, baune, bogna, bønne, Swedish böna (“bean”), Irish pónaire (“bean”), Manx poanrey (“bean”), Scottish Gaelic pònair (“bean”), Latin faba (“bean”), Russian боб (bob, “bean”), Serbo-Croatian бо̏б/bȍb. Doublet of fava.

251 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• German: Bohnenpflanze — plant of Fabaceae that produces edible seeds or pods
• Romagnol: fașöl — plant of Fabaceae that produces edible seeds or pods
• Lower Sorbian: bob — plant of Fabaceae that produces edible seeds or pods
• Walloon: feve — plant of Fabaceae that produces edible seeds or pods
• Acehnese: kacang — seed
• Afrikaans: boontjie — seed
• Albanian: bathë — seed
• Albanian: fasule — seed
• Southern Altai: мырчак (mïrčak) — seed
• Amharic: ባቄላ (baḳela) — seed
• Andi: гьоли (holi) — seed
• Western Apache: béʼistsʼǫ́z — seed
• Arabic: فَاصُولِيَا (fāṣūliyā) — seed
• Arabic: لُوبِيَا (lūbiyā) — seed
• Arabic: فول (fūl) — seed
• Arabic: فولة (fūla) — seed
• Aragonese: faba — seed
• Argobba: ባቄላ (bāqelā) — seed
• Armenian: լոբի (lobi) — seed
• Armenian: բակլա (bakla) — seed
• Asturian: faba — seed
• Avar: гьоло (holo) — seed
• Azerbaijani: lobya — seed
• Balinese: buncis — seed
• Baluchi: ماک (mák) — seed
• Basque: babarrun — seed
• Belarusian: боб (bob) — seed
• Belarusian: фасо́ль (fasólʹ) — seed
• Bengali: সীম (śim) — seed
• Bengali: শিম (śim) — seed
• Blackfoot: áótooksiinaattsi — seed
• Blackfoot: áótooksiinattsiistsi — seed
• Breton: favenn — seed
• Bulgarian: боб (bob) — seed
• Bulgarian: фасу́л (fasúl) — seed
• Burmese: ပဲ (pai:) — seed
• Catalan: fesol — seed
• Catalan: mongeta — seed
• Chamicuro: mapolooto — seed
• Cherokee: ᏚᏯ (duya) — seed
• Chichewa: nyemba — seed
• Chinese Mandarin: 豆 (dòu) — seed
• Cornish: faven — seed
• Czech: fazole — seed
• Danish: bønne — seed
• Danish: bønner — seed
• Dutch: boon — seed
• Erzya: покра (pokra) — seed
• Esperanto: fabo — seed
• Estonian: uba — seed
• Ewe: ayi — seed
• Faroese: bøna — seed
• Finnish: papu — seed
• French: haricot — seed
• North Frisian: buan — seed
• Saterland Frisian: Boone — seed
• West-Frisian: beane — seed
• Galician: feixón — seed
• Galician: faba — seed
• Ge'ez: ባቄላ (baḳela) — seed
• Georgian: ლობიო (lobio) — seed
• German: Bohne — seed
• Greek: φασόλι (fasóli) — seed
• Ancient Greek: φάσηλος (phásēlos) — seed
• Ancient Greek: κύαμος (kúamos) — seed
• Mbya Guarani: kumanda — seed
• Haitian Creole: pwa — seed
• Hebrew: שְׁעוּעִית (sh'u'ít) — seed
• Hindi: सेम (sem) — seed
• White Hmong: noob taum — seed
• White Hmong: taum — seed
• Hungarian: bab — seed
• Hungarian: paszuly — seed
• Hunsrik: Bohn — seed
• Icelandic: baun — seed
• Ido: fabo — seed
• Indonesian: kacang — seed
• Ingrian: papu — seed
• Inuktitut: nilernait — seed
• Irish: pónaire — seed
• Italian: fagiolo — seed
• Iu Mien: dopc — seed
• Japanese: 豆 (mame) — seed
• Japanese: 隠元 (ingen) — seed
• Jarai: rơtă — seed
• Javanese: ꦏꦕꦁ (kacang) — seed
• Old Javanese: kacaṅ — seed
• Kazakh: бұршақ (būrşaq) — seed
• Khmer: សណ្ដែក (sɑndaek) — seed
• K'iche': kinaq' — seed
• Kikuyu: mbosho — seed
• Korean: 콩 (kong) — seed
• Central Kurdish: فاسولیا (fasulya) — seed
• Northern Kurdish: fasûlî — seed
• Kyrgyz: буурчак (buurcak) — seed
• Ladino: ava — seed
• Ladino: fijon (Salonik) — seed
• Ladino: fasulya — seed
• Lak: хъюру (quʕru) — seed
• Lakota: omníča — seed
• Lakota: omníčahu — seed
• Lao: ຫມາກຖົ່ວ (māk thūa) — seed
• Lao: ຖົ່ວ (thūa) — seed
• Latin: faba — seed
• Latin: phaseolus — seed
• Latvian: pupa — seed
• Ligurian: faxeu — seed
• Lingala: nkúnde — seed
• Lithuanian: pupelė — seed
• Lithuanian: pupa — seed
• Lombard: fasoeul — seed
• Low German: Boon — seed
• Lü: ᦷᦏᧈ (ṫho1) — seed
• Luhya: kamakanda — seed
• Macedonian: грав (grav) — seed
• Macedonian: боб (bob) — seed
• Malagasy: tsaramaso — seed
• Malay: kacang — seed
• Maltese: fażola — seed
• Maltese: fula — seed
• Manchu: ᡨᡠᡵᡳ (turi) — seed
• Manx: poanrey — seed
• Māori: piini — seed
• Massachusett: tupahquam — seed
• Mongolian: шош (šoš) — seed
• Mongolian: буурцаг (buurcag) — seed
• Nahuatl: etl — seed
• Navajo: naaʼołí — seed
• Neapolitan: fasulo — seed
• Norman: haricot — seed
• Norwegian: bønne — seed
• Occitan: mongeta — seed
• Occitan: favòl — seed
• Ojibwe: mashkodesimin — seed
• Ojibwe: mashkodesiminag — seed
• Ojibwe: miskodiisimin — seed
• Ojibwe: miskodiisiminag — seed
• Old Prussian: babo — seed
• Oromo: baaqelaa — seed
• Pannonian Rusyn: пасуля (pasulja) — seed
• Pennsylvania German: Buhn — seed
• Persian: لوبیا (lubiyâ) — seed
• Persian: باقالا (bâqâlâ) — seed
• Pipil: et — seed
• Plautdietsch: Boon — seed
• Polish: fasola — seed
• Portuguese: feijão — seed
• Quechua: chuwi — seed
• Quechua: jawas — seed
• Réunion Creole French: zariko — seed
• Romanian: fasole — seed
• Romanian: bob — seed
• Romansh: fav — seed
• Romansh: bagiauna — seed
• Russian: боб (bob) — seed
• Russian: фасо́ль (fasólʹ) — seed
• Northern Sami: báhpu — seed
• Scottish Gaelic: pònair — seed
• Serbo-Croatian: па̀сӯљ — seed
• Serbo-Croatian: гра̏х — seed
• Serbo-Croatian: pàsūlj — seed
• Serbo-Croatian: grȁh — seed
• Shan: ထူဝ်ႇ (thò) — seed
• Sicilian: faciola — seed
• Sinhalese: බෝංචි (bōṁci) — seed
• Slovak: fazuľa — seed
• Slovene: fižol — seed
• Somali: digir — seed
• Lower Sorbian: bobowka — seed
• Upper Sorbian: buna — seed
• Sotho: nawa — seed
• Spanish: haba — seed
• Spanish: frijol — seed
• Spanish: habichuela — seed
• Spanish: judía — seed
• Spanish: alubia — seed
• Spanish: poroto — seed
• Spanish: caraota — seed
• Spanish: xpelón — seed
• Swahili: haragwe — seed
• Swedish: böna — seed
• Tagalog: katsang — seed
• Tai Dam: ꪖ꪿ꪺ — seed
• Tajik: лӯбиё (lübiyo) — seed
• Taos: tą́na — seed
• Tarifit: baw — seed
• Thai: ถั่ว (tùua) — seed
• Tigrinya: ባልደንጓ (baldängwa) — seed
• Turkish: fasulye — seed
• Turkish: lobya — seed
• Ottoman Turkish: فاصولیه (fasulya, fasulye) — seed
• Turkmen: kösük — seed
• Turkmen: noýba — seed
• Uab Meto: fue — seed
• Ukrainian: біб (bib) — seed
• Ukrainian: квасо́ля (kvasólja) — seed
• Ukrainian: фасо́ля (fasólja) — seed
• Unami: malàxkwsit — seed
• Urdu: لوبیا (lubiyā) — seed
• Urdu: سیم (sem) — seed
• Uyghur: پۇرچاق (purchaq) — seed
• Uzbek: loviya — seed
• Vietnamese: đậu — seed
• Walloon: feve — seed
• Welsh: ffa — seed
• Wintu: friholis — seed
• Yiddish: באָב (bob) — seed
• Yiddish: בעבל (bebl) — seed
• Yiddish: פֿאַסאָליע (fasolye) — seed
• Yucatec Maya: iib — seed
• Yup'ik: nelernaq — seed
• Bulgarian: шушулка (šušulka) — pod
• Finnish: papu — pod
• Finnish: palko — pod
• Lakota: suóžuha — pod
• Macedonian: мешунка (mešunka) — pod
• Navajo: naaʼołí — pod
• Romanian: păstaie — pod
• Romanian: teacă — pod
• Russian: боб (bob) — pod
• Scottish Gaelic: pònair — pod
• Lower Sorbian: tšuka — pod
• Lower Sorbian: tšuk — pod
• Spanish: vaina — pod
• Swahili: haragwe — pod
• Bulgarian: боб (bob) — other bean-like seed
• Finnish: papu — other bean-like seed
• Hebrew: פּוֹל (pol) — other bean-like seed
• Latvian: pupa — other bean-like seed
• Malay: biji — other bean-like seed
• Polish: ziarno — other bean-like seed
• Russian: боб (bob) — other bean-like seed
• Russian: стручо́к (stručók) — other bean-like seed
• Russian: зерно́ (zernó) — other bean-like seed
• Scottish Gaelic: pònair — other bean-like seed
• Slovak: zrnko — other bean-like seed
• Spanish: grano — other bean-like seed
• Swahili: haragwe — other bean-like seed
• Finnish: jyvä — stuffing for beanbags and similar items
• Bulgarian: тиква (tikva) — slang: head or brain
• Dutch: knikker — slang: head or brain
• Dutch: kop — slang: head or brain
• Dutch: harses — slang: head or brain
• Finnish: nuppi — slang: head or brain
• Finnish: polla — slang: head or brain
• Bulgarian: мангизи (mangizi) — slang: money
• Finnish: lati — slang: money
• Finnish: penni — slang: money
• Esperanto: fabo — software: short for JavaBean
• German: Bean — software: short for JavaBean
• Turkish: eleman — software: short for JavaBean