# bean
## English
### Etymology

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”), West Frisian bean (“bean”), Dutch boon (“bean”), German Bohne (“bean”), Swedish böna (“bean”), Danish bønne (“bean”), Norwegian bønne (“bean”), Icelandic baun (“bean”), Latin faba (“bean”), Russian боб (bob, “bean”), Serbo-Croatian бо̏б/bȍb. Doublet of fava.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: bēn, IPA: /biːn/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Homophone: been (in some dialects)
* Rhymes: -iːn

### Noun

bean (plural beans)
* Any plant of several genera of the taxonomic family Fabaceae that produces large edible seeds or edible seedpods.
    Coordinate term: pea
** 2004, T. N. Shivenanda, B. R. V. Iyengar, Phosphorus Management in French Bean (Phaseolus Vulgaris L.), Ramdane Dris, S. Mohan Jain (editors), Production Practices and Quality Assessment of Food Crops, Volume 2: Plant Mineral Nutrition and Pesticide Management, page 79,
    Beans are a large group of leguminous vegetables that serve as a main source of proteins in human diet. This group comprises several species and some of them are Adzuki bean (Vigna angularis); Broad bean (Vicia faba); Cluster bean (Cyamposis tetragonoloba); French bean (Phaseolus vulgaris); […] .
* The large edible seed of such a plant (for example, a broad bean, navy bean, or garbanzo bean).
* The edible seedpod of such a plant.
    Green beans, also called French beans, can be pickled.
* (by extension) The bean-like seed of certain other plants, such as a vanilla bean or (especially) a coffee bean.
* (by extension) An object resembling a pea or bean in shape, often made from plastic or styrofoam and used in large numbers as packing material or as stuffing for beanbags and similar items.
* (slang) The head or brain.
    Synonym: noggin
** 1959, Maxwell Droke, You and the World to Come, page 173:Now, there was a perfectly sound forecast for you. Certainly a case of using the old bean. The surmise was perfectly logical.
** 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XI and XV:I saw her quiver and kept a wary eye on the ginger ale bottle. But even if she had raised it and brought it down on [my] bean, I couldn't have been more stunned than I was by the words that left her lips. [...] Well, as I say, it was from his fertile bean that the idea sprang.
* (slang) The human clitoris.
** 2010, Cynthia W. Gentry, Dana Fredst, What Women Really Want in Bed: The Surprising Secrets Women Wish Men Knew about Sex, Quiver, published 2010, →ISBN, page 64:For one, don't stage a full-frontal assault on her bean.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:bean.
* (slang, often endearing) A person; especially, a baby.
** 2000 April 9, Richard G Cheek, “Apologies, DimWit Dana”, in talk.politics.guns (Usenet):Sparky is a good bean, even if he is a carpet-bagging bean at that.
** 2002 March 21, Yena, "oh my bloody god boys!", microsoft.public.xbox, Usenet:
    i dont want boid (whoever said that) he is mean. boid is a mean bean.
** 2007, Alex Bradley, Hot Lunch, Penguin, →ISBN:"Good, because we like you. You're okay. You're a good bean." "I never thought I'd be friends with a cheerleader," I said.
* (British, slang, archaic) A guinea coin or sovereign.
* (British, slang, chiefly in the negative) Money.
    I haven't got a bean.
* (Java programming language) Clipping of JavaBean.
** 2017, Iuliana Cosmina, Rob Harrop, Chris Schaefer, Clarence Ho, Pro Spring 5, 5th edition, Apress, →ISBN, page 131:The singerOne bean has values for both the name and age properties, so it passes through the init method with absolutely no changes.
* (slang) Any form of tablet, especially benzedrine (benny).
** 2022, Sean Thor Conroe, Fuccboi‎, Hachette, →ISBN:Once the bean kicked in I started wilding.
* (colloquial, chiefly in the plural) A toe bean.

#### Usage notes

Beans and peas are sometimes misidentified (confused with one another); they are both legumes (belonging to the family Fabaceae) and seeds. The word bean has referred to a wide class of seeds since pre-Columbian times (when only the Eurasian types were known to Germanic language speakers), but, after Columbian contact, it was extended to other seeds belonging to the New World genus Phaseolus (runner beans, lima beans, and so on; see bean § Terminology for details). The fruits or seeds of some other non-Fabaceae plants (e.g., coffee beans, cocoa beans, vanilla beans, castor beans) are also referred to as beans, because of their resemblance to beans as named in the stricter sense.
Peas are a type of bean with smaller, round seeds in the pod, in contrast to the oval or kidney-shaped seeds usually referred to as beans. Because both terms are applied to a wide range of different legumes, the distinction is not always clear: garbanzo bean is a synonym of chickpea.

#### Hyponyms

* adsuki bean
* aduki bean
* adzuki bean
* algaroba bean
* algarroba bean
* Anasazi bean
* asparagus bean
* azuki bean
* baked beans, baked bean
* baking beans
* bay bean
* beach bean
* Bengal bean
* Benghal bean
* bitter bean
* blackbean
* black bean
* black-eyed bean
* black turtle bean
* blue beans
* bog bean
* bogbean
* Bolita bean
* bonavist bean
* borlotti bean
* boston bean
* broadbean
* broad bean
* brown bean
* buckbean
* buck bean
* buffalo bean
* bush bean
* butter bean
* butterbean
* cacao bean
* Calabar bean
* calico bean
* calico beans
* cannellini bean
* carob bean
* castor bean
* castor-oil bean
* ceci bean
* chili beans
* China bean
* Chinese long bean
* civet bean
* cluster bean
* cocoa bean
* coffee bean
* common bean
* coral bean
* corona bean
* cow bean
* cowboy beans
* cranberry bean
* djenkol bean
* dragon tongue bean
* Dutch case-knife bean
* dwarf bean
* edible bean
* Egyptian bean
* English bean
* English runner bean
* Entity Bean
* European bean
* faba bean
* fava bean
* fetish bean
* field bean
* flageolet bean
* flick the bean
* Florida bean
* Florida velvet bean
* French bean
* french bean
* French filet bean
* fresh bean
* full of beans
* garbanzo bean
* gemsbuck beans
* giant stock bean
* give someone beans
* goa bean
* great Northern bean
* great northern bean
* green bean
* green bean galaxy
* guar bean
* guava bean
* haricot bean
* haricot vert bean
* hog's bean
* horse bean
* horsebean
* human bean
* hyacinth bean
* ice-cream bean
* Ignatius' bean
* Indian bean
* Italian flat bean
* jack bean
* java bean
* jellybean
* jelly bean
* jequirity bean
* jering bean
* jolly bean
* jumby bean
* jumping bean
* Kentucky wonder bean
* Kersting's bean
* kidney bean
* Leichhardt's bean
* lima bean, Lima bean
* locust bean
* lupini bean
* Lyon bean
* Mackenzie bean
* Madagascar bean
* magotty bay bean
* Manila bean
* marama bean
* marrow bean
* mash bean
* mat bean
* matpe bean
* mescal bean
* mescalbean
* mesquite bean
* Message-driven Bean
* Mexican bean
* Mexican jumping bean
* Mexican yam bean
* mini beans
* Molucca bean
* moong bean
* morama bean
* morning bean
* moth bean
* mung bean
* mungo bean
* navy bean
* old bean
* ordeal bean
* pea bean
* pearl haricot bean
* pichurim bean
* pink bean
* pinto bean
* poison bean
* pole bean
* Price's potato-bean
* Pythagorean bean
* Queensland bean
* red bean
* refried beans, refried bean
* rice and beans
* rice bean (Vigna umbellata)
* Romano bean
* runner bean
* sacred bean
* sand bean
* scarlet runner bean
* screwbean
* screw bean
* sea bean
* seabean
* sea green bean
* shell bean
* sieva bean
* smoking bean
* snail bean
* snap bean
* snuffbox bean
* soja bean
* soup beans
* soya bean
* soybean
* soy bean
* Spanish bean
* speckled butter bean
* spill the beans
* St Ignatius' bean
* St Ignatius's bean
* stink bean
* stinky bean
* string bean
* stringless bean
* St. Thomas bean
* sugar bean
* sword bean
* tepary bean
* tickbean
* tick bean
* tonca bean
* tonga bean
* tonka bean
* tonqua bean
* tonquin bean
* turtle bean
* twisted cluster bean
* urd bean
* vanilla bean
* velvet bean
* Walkman Bean
* waxbean
* wax bean
* wax-pod bean
* Welsh bean
* white bean
* white pea bean
* wild bean
* Windsor bean
* winged bean
* wolf bean
* wonder bean
* yam bean
* Yankee bean
* yardlong bean
* yard-long bean
* yellow bean
* managed bean

#### Derived terms

* African locust bean
* a hill of beans
* asparagus-bean
* Banstead
* BaseBean
* bean aphid
* bean aphis
* beanbag
* bean bag
* bean-bag
* bean ball
* beanball
* bean beetle
* bean-belly
* bean blight
* beanbrain
* beanbrawl
* beanbreath
* bean bruchid
* bean-brush
* beanburger
* bean-butter
* beancake
* bean cake
* bean-cake
* bean-caper
* bean caper
* bean choke
* bean chute
* bean clam
* bean-cod
* bean counter
* bean-counter
* bean cowrie
* bean-crake
* bean curd
* bean curve
* bean dip
* bean-dolphin
* bean-eater
* beaner
* beanery
* bean family
* bean feast
* beanfeast
* bean-feast
* bean-fed
* beanfield
* bean-flicker
* bean flicker
* bean flicking
* beanflour
* bean-fly
* bean fly
* bean goose
* bean-goose
* Beanhead
* bean hole
* beanhole
* bean-hool
* bean-hull
* beanie
* Beanie Baby
* beanie baby
* beanie key
* bean iron ore
* bean jar
* bean king
* bean-king
* bean leafroller
* beanless
* beanlike
* bean-like
* bean machine
* bean masher
* beanmeal
* bean metal
* bean-mouse
* bean mouth
* bean of Molucca
* bean of St Ignatius
* bean oil
* bean paste
* bean pie
* bean plant
* beanplot
* beanpole, bean-pole, bean pole
* Beanpot
* bean pot
* beanpot
* bean queen
* bean rag
* bean salad
* beans bunny
* Bean Scripting Framework
* bean seed fly
* bean-shaped plasma
* bean-shatter
* bean shoot
* bean-shooter
* bean shot
* bean-shot copper
* bean-shouter
* bean slot
* beans on toast
* beanspilling
* bean sprout
* beanstalk, bean-stalk
* bean stitch
* bean-straw
* bean thread noodles
* bean threads
* bean-to-bar
* bean tostada
* Beantown
* Bean Town
* bean-tree
* bean tree
* bean-trefoil
* bean trefoil
* bean-vine
* bean wagon
* beanwater
* beanweed
* bean weevil
* bean-wood
* beany
* blackbean
* black bean aphid
* bobby bean
* bogbean
* boring as beans
* broadbean
* buck-bean
* buckbean
* bullets and beans
* bush-bean
* butterbean
* campfire beans
* castor-bean
* castor bean tick
* charro bean
* chuckwagon beans
* clean as a bean
* cool beans
* cowboy beans
* desert bean
* dilly bean
* Enola bean
* fine bean
* flick one's bean
* for beans
* full of beans
* gemsbok bean
* get beans
* goa bean vine
* goober bean
* gully bean
* horsebean
* hot bean
* hot boiled beans
* Ignatius bean
* JavaBean
* java-bean
* jellybean
* jugo bean
* keen as a bean
* keep it a bean
* kewl beans
* know beans about
* know how many beans make five
* le dollar bean
* locust bean gum
* long-bean
* Malacca-bean
* Malacca bean
* Malacca-bean tree
* Malacca bean tree
* maloga bean
* May-bean
* MBean
* Mexican bean beetle
* mole bean
* multiflora bean
* NetBeans
* nicker bean
* not care beans
* not have a bean
* not know beans
* not worth beans
* peachy keen jelly bean
* pole-bean
* pork and bean
* pork and beans
* potato-bean
* prairie-bean
* red bean paste
* refried bean
* scarlet bean
* scarlet-bean
* screw-bean
* seabean
* session bean
* silly bean
* snake bean
* snoutbean
* snuff box sea bean
* soup beans
* soybean
* spill the beans
* stinking bean trefoil
* sweet bean sauce
* tickbean
* toe bean
* tough beans
* tundra bean goose
* waxbean

#### Descendants

* → Fiji Hindi: biin

#### Translations
### Verb

bean (third-person singular simple present beans, present participle beaning, simple past and past participle beaned)
* (chiefly baseball) To hit with a projectile, especially a deliberately aimed blow to the head.
    The pitcher beaned the batter, rather than letting him hit another home run.
** 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter IX and XI:Though I shall have to exercise an iron self-restraint to keep me from beaning that pie-faced little hornswoggler Mrs Bertram Wooster, nee Wickham, with the shaker. [...] dudgeon might easily lead her to reach for the ginger ale bottle and bean me with it.

### Further reading

* bean on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Bean (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* “bean n.$^1$”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

### Anagrams

* Bane, Bena, bane, nabe

## Basque
### Noun

bean
* inessive singular of be

## Gagauz
### Pronoun

bean (definite accusative beni, plural biz)
* Obsolete spelling of bän.

### Further reading

* Ciachir, Mihail (1938) “bean”, in Dicționar gagauzo (tiurco)–român pentru gagauzii din Basarabia (in Romanian), Chișinău, page 14

## Irish
### Pronunciation

* (Munster) IPA: /bʲan̪ˠ/
* (Aran) IPA: /bʲæn/
* (Cois Fharraige) IPA: /bʲæːn̪ˠ/
* (Mayo, Ulster) IPA: /bʲanˠ/, /bʲan̪ˠ/

### Etymology 1

* PIE word
* *gʷḗn
From Old Irish ben, from Proto-Celtic *benā, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn.

#### Noun

bean f (genitive singular mná, nominative plural mná)
* woman
* wife

##### Declension

bare forms
singular
plural
nominative
bean
mná
vocative
a bhean
a mhná
genitive
mná
ban
dative
bean mnaoi (archaic or dialectal)
mná mnáibh (archaic)
forms with the definite article
singular
plural
nominative
an bhean
na mná
genitive
na mná
na mban
dative
leis an mbean don bhean leis an mnaoi (archaic or dialectal) don mhnaoi (archaic or dialectal)
leis na mná leis na mnáibh (archaic) :

##### Derived terms

* áilleagán mná (“useless pretty woman”)
* alaisceach mná f (“big strong woman”)
* bean abhrais (“spinner”)
* bean aimrid (“barren woman”)
* bean chabhrach (“midwife”)
* bean chaointe (“keening woman”)
* bean chéile (“wife”)
* bean choibhche (“mistress”)
* bean choimhdeachta (“lady's maid”)
* bean choiteann (“prostitute”)
* bean chrosach (“palmist, fortune-teller”)
* bean feasa (“wise woman, fortune-teller”)
* bean fuála (“needlewoman”)
* bean ghaoil (“female relative”)
* bean ghlúine (“midwife”)
* bean lóistín (“landlady”)
* bean luí (“concubine”)
* bean níocháin (“washerwoman”)
* bean rialta (“nun”)
* bean seoil (“woman in childbirth”)
* bean seolta (“woman in childbirth”)
* bean sí (“banshee, fairy woman”)
* bean siúil (“travelling woman”)
* bean snáthaide (“needlewoman”)
* bean sráide (“prostitute”)
* bean thíosach (“good housewife”)
* bean tí (“housewife; housekeeper”)
* bean tíre (“countrywoman”)
* bean tuaithe (“countrywoman”)
* bean uasal (“lady”)
* bunbhean (“middle-aged woman”)
* callaire mná (“scold”)
* dochtúir ban (“gynaecologist”)
* drochbhean (“bad woman”)
* éigean mná (“rape”)
* lia ban (“gynaecologist”)
* liacht bhan (“gynaecology”)
* macaomh mná (“girl, young woman”)
* maistín mná (“virago”)
* ógbhean (“young woman”)
* puisbhean (“aging spinster”)
* raibiléir mná (“harlot, hussy”)
* ropaire mná (“virago”)
* scafaire mná (“strapping girl”)
* seanbhean (“old woman”)
* siollaire mná (“strong comely woman”)
* stiúireachán mná (“virago”)

#### Pronoun

bean
* one (of women, girls)
    Tá triúr iníonacha agam; tá bean acu trasinscneach.I have three daughters; one of them is transgender.

#### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bean”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “bean”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 60
* “bean”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025

### Etymology 2

From a conflation of Old Irish benaid (“beat, strike”) and bongaid (“break, cut”).

#### Verb

bean (present analytic beanann, future analytic beanfaidh, verbal noun beant, past participle beanta)
* (ambitransitive) Alternative form of bain

##### Inflection

| verbal noun | beant | beant | beant | beant | beant | beant | beant | beant |
| past participle | beanta | beanta | beanta | beanta | beanta | beanta | beanta | beanta |
| tense | singular | singular | singular | plural | plural | plural | relative | autonomous |
| tense | first | second | third | first | second | third | relative | autonomous |
| indicative |||||||||
| present | beanaim | beanann tú; beanair$^†$ | beanann sé, sí | beanaimid | beanann sibh | beanann siad; beanaid$^†$ | a bheanann; a bheanas / a mbeanann* | beantar |
| past | bhean mé; bheanas | bhean tú; bheanais | bhean sé, sí | bheanamar; bhean muid | bhean sibh; bheanabhair | bhean siad; bheanadar | a bhean / ar bhean* | beanadh |
| past habitual | bheanainn / mbeanainn‡‡ | bheantá / mbeantá‡‡ | bheanadh sé, sí / mbeanadh sé, sí‡‡ | bheanaimis; bheanadh muid / mbeanaimis‡‡; mbeanadh muid‡‡ | bheanadh sibh / mbeanadh sibh‡‡ | bheanaidís; bheanadh siad / mbeanaidís‡‡; mbeanadh siad‡‡ | a bheanadh / a mbeanadh* | bheantaí / mbeantaí‡‡ |
| future | beanfaidh mé; beanfad | beanfaidh tú; beanfair$^†$ | beanfaidh sé, sí | beanfaimid; beanfaidh muid | beanfaidh sibh | beanfaidh siad; beanfaid$^†$ | a bheanfaidh; a bheanfas / a mbeanfaidh* | beanfar |
| conditional | bheanfainn / mbeanfainn‡‡ | bheanfá / mbeanfá‡‡ | bheanfadh sé, sí / mbeanfadh sé, sí‡‡ | bheanfaimis; bheanfadh muid / mbeanfaimis‡‡; mbeanfadh muid‡‡ | bheanfadh sibh / mbeanfadh sibh‡‡ | bheanfaidís; bheanfadh siad / mbeanfaidís‡‡; mbeanfadh siad‡‡ | a bheanfadh / a mbeanfadh* | bheanfaí / mbeanfaí‡‡ |
| subjunctive |||||||||
| present | go mbeana mé; go mbeanad$^†$ | go mbeana tú; go mbeanair$^†$ | go mbeana sé, sí | go mbeanaimid; go mbeana muid | go mbeana sibh | go mbeana siad; go mbeanaid$^†$ | — | go mbeantar |
| past | dá mbeanainn | dá mbeantá | dá mbeanadh sé, sí | dá mbeanaimis; dá mbeanadh muid | dá mbeanadh sibh | dá mbeanaidís; dá mbeanadh siad | — | dá mbeantaí |
| imperative |||||||||
| – | beanaim | bean | beanadh sé, sí | beanaimis | beanaigí; beanaidh$^†$ | beanaidís | — | beantar |
* indirect relative † archaic or dialect form ‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 107, page 58
* ↑ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 38
* ↑ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 244, page 88
* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ben”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “benaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “boingid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Middle English
### Etymology 1
#### Verb

bean (third-person singular simple present is, present participle beinge, first-/third-person singular past indicative was, past participle beon)
* Alternative form of been (“to be”)

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

bean (plural beanen)
* Alternative form of bene (“bean”)

## Old English
### Alternative forms

* bīen

### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *baunu.
Cognate with Old Frisian bāne, bām (West Frisian bean), Old Saxon bōna (Low German Bohn), Dutch boon, Old High German bōna (German Bohne), Old Norse baun (Danish bønne, Swedish böna).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bæ͜ɑːn/

### Noun

bēan f (nominative plural bēana or bēane)
* bean (especially the broad bean)

#### Declension

Strong ō-stem:

#### Descendants

* Middle English: bene, beane, beene, beyn, ben, bean
** English: bean
** Scots: bein, bene
** Yola: beanès, beanes, baanès, baanes, banès (plural)

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French béjaune.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɛ.an/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛan
* Syllabification: be‧an

### Noun

bean m animal
* (archaic) greenhorn
    Synonym: żółtodziób
* (archaic) rude person
    Synonyms: cham, prostak

### References

* 1 2 Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “bean”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna: “‘fryc’, cham’, z gwary żakowskiej, łac. beanus z franc. béjaune, ‘żółtodziób’”

### Further reading

* bean in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Scottish Gaelic
### Etymology

From Middle Irish ben, from Old Irish ben. Cognates include Irish bean and Manx ben.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /b̥ɛ̃n/, (Lewis) [b̥æ̃n]

### Noun

bean f
* wife
* (archaic) woman
    Synonym: boireannach

#### Derived terms

* ban-
* bana-
* bean bhàsail
* bean-

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ben”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* ↑ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
* ↑ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap

### Further reading

* Edward Dwelly (1911) “bean”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
* Colin Mark (2003) “bean”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 68

## Swedish
### Noun

bean
* definite singular of bea

## West Frisian
### Alternative forms

* beane, beanne

### Etymology

From Old Frisian bāne, from Proto-West Germanic *baunu.
Cognate with Dutch boon, English bean, German Bohne.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɪə̯n/

### Noun

bean c (plural beanen, diminutive beantsje)
* bean

#### Further reading

* “bean”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011