| English | butter bean | | | 1 | Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. |
| English | Lima bean | | | 1 | Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. |
| English | Sieva bean | | | 1 | Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance |
| English | sugar bean | | | 1 | Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance |
| French | haricot de Lima | | | 2 | Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants |
| French | haricot du Cap | | | 2 | Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants |
| French | pois du Cap | | | 2 | Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants |
| German | Limabohne | | | 2 | Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants |
| German | Mondbohne | | | 2 | Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants |
| Italian | fagiolo di Lima | | | 2 | International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2. |
| Japanese Rōmaji | aoi-mame | | | 2 | Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands. |
| Portuguese | feijão-de-Lima | | | 2 | Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | fava-Belém | | | 2 | Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | feijão-fava | | | 2 | Silva, V. B. et al. 2015. Genetic diversity and promising crosses indication in lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus) accessions. Semina: Ciências Agrárias 36:683-692. DOI: 10.5433/1679-0359.2015v36n2p683. |
| Spanish | frijol de luna | | | 2 | Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants |
| Spanish | haba lima | | | 2 | Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants |
| Spanish | judía de Lima | | | 2 | Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants |
| Spanish | pallar | | | 2 | Soukup, J. 1970. Vocabulario de los nombres vulgares de la flora peruana. 259. |
| Spanish (Mexico) | frijol navajita | | | 2 | Lira, R. et al., eds. 2016. Ethnobotany of Mexico Springer, New York, US. 89. |
| Spanish (Spain) | garrofó | | | 2 | Martínez-Nieto, M. I. et al. 2020. Resilience capacity assessment of the traditional Lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus L.) landraces facing climate change. Agron. Open Access 10:758. DOI: 10.3390/agronomy10060758. Note: this study assessed local cultivars developed in Valencia, Spain, and compared them with a widely commercial cultivar |
| Swedish | limaböna | | | 2 | Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource) |
| Transcribed Chinese | main dou | | | 2 | Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition). |
| Transcribed Korean | chaedu | | | 2 | Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:116. |