| English | flax | | | 1 | Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. |
| English | linseed | | | 1 | Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants |
| Arabic | kettan | | | 2 | Boulos, L. 1999-. Flora of Egypt |
| English (Canada) | flax | | Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada official name | 2 | Darbyshire, S. J. 2003. Inventory of Canadian Agricultural Weeds Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. 157. |
| French | lin | | | 2 | Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants |
| French (Canada) | lin cultivé | | Agriculture & Agroalimentaire Canada nom officiel | 2 | Darbyshire, S. J. 2003. Inventory of Canadian Agricultural Weeds Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. 157. |
| German | Flachs | | | 2 | Erhardt, W. et al. 2000. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 16. Auflage |
| German | Saatlein | | | 2 | Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants |
| Italian | lino | | | 2 | International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2. |
| Portuguese | linhaça | | | 2 | PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource). |
| Portuguese | linho | | | 2 | Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants |
| Spanish | lino | | | 2 | Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants |
| Swahili | kitani | | | 2 | PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource). |
| Swedish | lin | | | 2 | Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource) |
| Transcribed Chinese | ya ma | | | 2 | Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition). |
| Transcribed Korean | ama | | | 2 | Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:105. |