hyacinth bean

English

hyacinth bean in flower

Pronunciation

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Noun

hyacinth bean (plural hyacinth beans)

1. A climbing leguminous plant (Lablab purpureus), with white or dark purple flowers, native to Africa, widely cultivated in the tropics.

Translations

the plant or its produce of seed

• Arabic: لَبْلَاب m (lablāb)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Assamese: উৰহী (urohi)
• Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can
• Bengali: শিম (bn) (śim)
• Cebuano: bataw
• Chinese: 扁豆 (zh) (biǎndòu)
• Danish: hjelmbønne c
• Dutch: koelieboontjes n pl (Suriname)
• Finnish: hyasinttipapu (fi)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Helmbohne f
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: the Ancients only knew the cowpea, perhaps extending its names in a generic fashion.

• Gujarati: વાલ (vāl)
• Hungarian: bivalyborsó
• Indonesian: kacang komak, kacang bado, kacang biduk, bitsuwelas, bataw
• Japanese: 藤豆 (ja) (fujimame)
• Kannada: ಅವರೆ (kn) (avare)
• Kikuyu: njahĩ
• Latin: the Ancients only knew the cowpea, perhaps extending its names in a generic fashion.
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Malayalam: അമര (ml) (amara), അമര (ml) (amara)
• Mizo: bepui
• Nepali: टाटे सिमी (ṭāṭe simī)
• Polish: wspięga pospolita f, fasolnik egipski m, chropawiec pospolity m
• Russian: ло́бия f (lóbija), гиаци́нтовые бобы́ m (giacíntovyje bobý) (in botanical jargon; only grown in Transcaucasia and there allegedly called by the vulgar just фасо́ль (fasólʹ))
• Sanskrit: निष्पाव (sa) (niṣpāva), राजशिम्बी (rājaśimbī), वल्लक (sa) (vallaka)
• Sholaga: ಅವರೆ (avare)
• Sindhi: سيم (sīm)
• Swedish: hjälmböna
• Sylheti: ꠃꠞꠤ (uri)
• Tagalog: bataw
• Tamil: அவரை (ta) (avarai)
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: гіаци́нтові боби́ m (hiacýntovi bobý) (in botanical jargon)

Further reading

• hyacinth bean on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Lablab purpureus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Lablab purpureus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons