bean

See also Bean

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Middle English bene, from Old English bēan (“bean, pea, legume”), 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”), Danish bønne (“bean”), Icelandic baun (“bean”), Latin faba (“bean”), Russian боб (bob, “bean”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: bēn, IPA: /biːn/, X-SAMPA: /bi:n/

• Audio (US)

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  Homophones: been (in some dialects)

• Rhymes: -iːn

Noun

Wikipedia

Beans.

bean (plural beans)

1. The large edible seed of plants of several genera of Fabaceae.
2. The seed pod of plants of several genera of Fabaceae.
3. A bean-like seed of some other plants, especially coffee; coffee in the general.
4. Stuffing for beanbags and similar items, often made from plastic and resembling a pea or bean in shape.
5. (slang) The head or brain.
   • 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.

6. (UK, slang, archaic) A guinea coin.
7. (UK, slang, usually in the negative) Money.

   I haven't got a bean.

8. (slang) The clitoris.
   • 2010, Cynthia W. Gentry & Dana Fredst, What Women Really Want in Bed: The Surprising Secrets Women Wish Men Knew about Sex, Quiver (2010), ISBN 9781592333394, page 64:

     For one, don't stage a full-frontal assault on her bean.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see the citations page.

Derived terms

Terms derived from bean

adsuki bean, aduki bean, adzuki bean, azuki bean algaroba bean, algarroba bean Anasazi bean asparagus bean, asparagus-bean baked beans baking beans BaseBean bay bean beach bean bean aphid bean aphis bean bag, bean-bag, beanbag bean ball, beanball bean beetle bean-belly bean blight bean bruchid bean-brush bean-butter bean cake bean caper, bean-caper bean choke bean chute bean-cod bean counter, bean-counter bean-crake bean curd bean curve bean dip bean-dolphin bean-eater beaner beanery bean family bean feast, bean-feast, beanfeast bean-fed bean-flicker bean fly, bean-fly bean goose, bean-goose Beanhead bean-hool, bean-hull beanie Beanie Baby® beanie key bean iron ore bean-king bean-like, beanlike bean machine bean masher bean metal bean-mouse bean of St Ignatius bean of Molucca bean oil bean paste bean plant bean-pole, beanpole bean pot Beanpot bean salad Bean Scripting Framework bean seed fly bean-shaped plasma bean-shatter BeanShell bean shoot bean-shooter bean shot bean-shot copper bean-shouter bean sprout bean-stalk, beanstalk

bean-stick bean-straw bean thread noodles, bean threads bean tostada Beantown, Bean Town bean tree, bean-tree bean trefoil, bean-trefoil bean-vine bean wagon bean weevil bean-wood beany Bengal bean, Benghal bean black bean blackbean black-eyed bean black turtle bean blue beans bog bean bogbean borlotti bean broad bean, broadbean buck bean, buck-bean, buckbean bullets and beans bush bean, bush-bean butter bean, butterbean cacao bean Calabar bean calico bean cannellini bean carob bean castor 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 cool beans coral bean corona bean cow bean cowboy beans cranberry bean dragon tongue bean djenkol bean Dutch case-knife bean dwarf bean edible bean Egyptian bean English bean English runner bean Entity Bean European bean faba bean fava bean field bean flageolet bean flick the bean Florida bean Florida velvet bean French bean, french bean French filet bean for beans fresh bean full of beans garbanzo bean gemsbuck beans get beans

giant stock bean give someone beans goa bean goa bean vine great Northern bean green bean guar bean guava bean haricot bean haricot vert bean a hill of beans hog's bean horse bean, horsebean hyacinth bean ice-cream bean Ignatius' bean Indian bean Italian flat bean jack bean JavaBean java bean, java-bean jelly bean, jellybean jequirity bean jering bean jolly bean jumby bean jumping bean Kentucky wonder bean Kersting's bean kidney bean know beans about know how many beans make five Leichhardt's bean lima bean locust bean long-bean lupini bean Lyon bean Mackenzie bean Madagascar bean magotty bay bean managed bean Manila bean marama bean, morama bean marrow bean mash bean mat bean May-bean MBean mescal bean, mescalbean mesquite bean Message-driven Bean Mexican bean Mexican bean beetle Mexican jumping bean Mexican yam bean mini beans Molucca bean moong bean moth bean mung bean mungo bean navy bean NetBeans not care beans not have a bean not know beans old bean ordeal bean pea bean pichurim bean pink bean pinto bean

poison bean pole bean, pole-bean pork and bean pork and beans potato bean, potato-bean prairie-bean Price's potato-bean Pythagorean bean Queensland bean red bean red bean paste refried beans rice and beans rice bean Romano bean runner bean sacred bean sand bean scarlet-bean scarlet runner bean screw bean, screw-bean, screwbean sea bean seabean sea green bean Session Bean shell bean sieva bean smoking bean snail bean snap bean snuffbox bean soja bean, soya bean, soy bean, soybean soup beans Spanish bean speckled butter bean spill the beans St Ignatius' bean, St Ignatius's bean stinking bean trefoil string bean stringless bean sugar bean sword bean tepary bean tick bean, tickbean tonca bean, tonga bean, tonka bean, tonqua bean, tonquin bean turtle bean urd bean vanilla bean velvet bean Walkman Bean wax bean, waxbean wax-pod bean Welsh bean white bean wild bean Windsor bean winged bean wolf bean wonder bean yam bean Yankee bean yard-long bean, yardlong bean yellow bean

Translations

seed

• Afrikaans: boontjie (af)
• Albanian: bathë (sq), fasule (sq)
• Arabic: ‏فَاصُولِيَا (ar) (faṣūliyā) f, ‏لُوبِيَا (ar) (lūbiyā) f

  Egyptian Arabic: فصولية (faṣulya) f

• Armenian: լոբի (hy) (lobi), բակլա (hy) (bakla)
• Azeri: lobya (az)
• Baluchi: ماک (mák)
• Basque: babarrun
• Belarusian: боб (be) (bob) m, фасоль (be) (fasólʹ) f
• Bengali: সীম (bn) (sim)
• Blackfoot: áótooksiinaattsi sg, áótooksiinattsiistsi pl
• Bulgarian: боб (bg) (bob) m, фасул (bg) (fasúl) m
• Catalan: mongeta (ca) f, (Valencian) fesol (ca) m
• Chamicuro: mapolooto
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 豆 (cmn) (dòu)

• Czech: fazole (cs) f
• Danish: bønne (da) c, bønner (da) pl
• Dutch: boon (nl) f
• Esperanto: fabo (eo)
• Estonian: uba (et)
• Ewe: ayi n
• Faroese: bøna (fo)
• Finnish: papu (fi)
• French: haricot (fr) m
• Georgian: ლობიო (ka) (lobio)
• German: Bohne (de) f
• Greek: φασόλι (el) (fasóli) n

  Ancient: φάσηλος (fasilos) m, κύανος (cyanos) m

• Hebrew: שעועית (he) (she’u’ít) f
• Hindi: सेम (hi) (sem)
• Hungarian: bab (hu), paszuly (hu)
• Icelandic: baun (is)
• Ido: fabo (io)
• Inuktitut: nilernait
• Italian: fagiolo (it) m
• Japanese: 豆 (ja) (まめ, mamé)
• Jèrriais: haricot m
• Khmer: សណ្ដែក (km) (sɑndaek)
• Kikuyu: mbosho
• Korean: 콩 (ko) (kong)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: فاسولیا

• Lak: хъюру (khyuru)
• Lakota: omnica
• Lao: ໝາກຖົ່ວ (lo)
• Latin: faba (la), phaseolus (la)
• Latvian: pupa (lv) f
• Luhya: kamakanda
• Macedonian: грав (mk) (grav) m, боб (mk) (bob) m
• Malay: kacang (ms)
• Maltese: fażolla (mt)
• Maori: piini
• Massachusett: tupahquam
• Navajo: naaʼołí
• Norwegian: bønne (no) c
• Ojibwe: mashkodesimin, mashkodesiminag pl; miskodiisimin, miskodiisiminag pl
• Persian: لوبیا (fa) (lubiya), باقالا (fa) (bâqâlâ)
• Pipil: et
• Polish: fasola (pl) f
• Portuguese: feijão (pt) m
• Romanian: fasole (ro) f, bob (ro) m
• Russian: боб (ru) (bob) m, фасоль (ru) (fasólʹ) f
• Scottish Gaelic: pònair (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пасуљ (sh) m, грах (sh) m

  Roman: pasulj (sh) m, grah (sh) m

• Sicilian: faciola f
• Slovak: fazul’a (sk) f
• Slovene: fižol (sl) m
• Somali: digir (so)
• Sotho: nawa (st)
• Spanish: haba (es) f, frijol (es) m, habichuela (es), (Spain) judía (es), alubia (es) f
• Swahili: haragwe sg, maharagwe pl (noun 5/6)
• Swedish: böna (sv) c
• Taos: tą́na
• Thai: ถั่ว (th) (thuàà)
• Turkish: fasulye (tr)
• Uab Meto: fue
• Ukrainian: біб (uk) (bib) m, квасоля (uk) (kvasólja) f, фасоля (uk) (fasólja) f
• Vietnamese: đậu (vi)
• Welsh: ffa (cy)
• West Frisian: bean, beane
• Yiddish: באָב (yi) (bob) m, בעבל (yi) (bebl) n
• Yup'ik: nelernaq

pod

• Finnish: papu (fi) (as food only), palko (fi) (otherwise)
• Macedonian: мешунка (mk) (méšunka) f
• Navajo: naa'ołí
• Romanian: păstaie (ro) f, teacă (ro) f

• Russian: боб (ru) (bob) m
• Scottish Gaelic: pònair (gd) f
• Spanish: vaina (es) f
• Swahili: maharagwe (sw)

other bean-like seed

• Finnish: papu (fi)
• Latvian: pupa (lv) f
• Russian: боб (ru) (bob) m, стручок (ru) (stručók) m, зерно (ru) (zernó) n

• Scottish Gaelic: pònair (gd) f
• Swahili: maharagwe (sw)

stuffing for beanbags and similar items

• Finnish: jyvä (fi)

slang: head or brain

• Finnish: nuppi (fi), polla (fi)

guinea coin — see guinea

slang: money

• Finnish: lati (fi), penni (fi)

Verb

bean (third-person singular simple present beans, present participle beaning, simple past and past participle beaned)

1. (chiefly baseball) To hit deliberately with a projectile, especially in 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.

Anagrams

• bane
• Bena

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Irish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: [bʲan̪ˠ]

Noun

bean f (genitive mná, nominative plural mná)

1. woman
2. wife

Declension

Irregular
Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative bean mná Vocative a bhean a mhná Genitive mná ban Dative bean mná		Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an bhean na mná Genitive na mná na mban Dative leis an mbean don bhean leis na mná

Derived terms

• bean sí
• seanbhean

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
bean	bhean	mbean
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *baunō. Cognate with Old Frisian bām, Old Saxon bōna (Dutch boon), Old High German bōna (German Bohne), Old Norse baun (Danish bønne).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /bæːan/

Noun

bēan f (nominative plural bēana or bēane)

1. bean (specifically the broad bean)

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: [b̊ɛn], /pɛn/

Noun

bean f (genitive mnatha or mnà, plural mnathan)

1. woman, wife

Declension

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	bean	mnathan
Vocative	bhean	mhnathan
Genitive	mnatha/mnà	mnathan
Dative	mnaoi	mnathan

Derived terms

• ban-, bana-, bean-