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[edit] English

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[edit] 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 Dutch boon (bean), German Bohne (bean), Danish bønne (bean), Icelandic baun (bean), Latin faba (bean), Russian боб (bob, bean).

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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.

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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.

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[edit] Irish

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

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  • IPA: [bʲan̪ˠ]

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bean f.

  1. woman
  2. wife

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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
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.

[edit] Old English

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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).

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  • IPA: /bæːan/

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bēan f. (nominative plural bēana or bēane)

  1. bean (specifically the broad bean)

[edit] Scottish Gaelic

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

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  • IPA: [b̊ɛn], /pɛn/

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bean f. (genitive mnatha or mnà, plural mnathan)

  1. woman, wife

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

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