bean – English noun declension

English noun forms of bean

Noun: bean
Singularbean
Pluralbeans

Sample Sentences

  • 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); […] .
  • Green beans, also called French beans, can be pickled.
  • Now, there was a perfectly sound forecast for you. Certainly a case of using the old bean. The surmise was perfectly logical. [1959, Maxwell Droke, You and the World to Come, page 173:]
  • 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.
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  • Well, as I say, it was from his fertile bean that the idea sprang. [1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XI and XV:]
  • For one, don't stage a full-frontal assault on her bean. [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:]
  • Sparky is a good bean, even if he is a carpet-bagging bean at that. [2000 April 9, Richard G Cheek, “Apologies, DimWit Dana”, in talk.politics.guns (Usenet):]
  • i dont want boid (whoever said that) he is mean. boid is a mean bean. [2002 March 21, Yena, "oh my bloody god boys!", microsoft.public.xbox, Usenet]
  • "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. [2007, Alex Bradley, Hot Lunch, Penguin, →ISBN:]
  • I haven't got a bean.
  • The singerOne bean has values for both the name and age properties, so it passes through the init() method with absolutely no changes. [2017, Iuliana Cosmina, Rob Harrop, Chris Schaefer, Clarence Ho, Pro Spring 5, 5th edition, Apress, →ISBN, page 131:]
  • Once the bean kicked in I started wilding. [2022, Sean Thor Conroe, Fuccboi, Hachette, →ISBN:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ-?
3. Proto-Germanic *babnōder.?
4. Proto-Germanic *baunō
5. Proto-West Germanic *baunu
6. Old English bēan
7. Middle English bene
8. English bean
9. 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. See: Middle English Nouns 'bene', Old English Nouns 'bēan', Dutch Nouns 'boon', German Nouns 'Bohne', Danish Nouns 'bønne', Faroese Nouns 'bøn', Icelandic Nouns 'baun', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns 'bønne', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'bauna', Swedish Nouns 'böna', Irish Nouns 'pónaire', Latin Nouns 'faba', Russian Nouns 'боб'.

Verbs referencing "bean"

German Nouns Bohne, French Nouns bine, Old Norse Nouns baun, Slovak Nouns bôb.