MULTILINGUAL MULTISCRIPT PLANT NAME DATABASE



Sorting Moringa names

Species on this page ( A = names approved by most authorities, s = approved as synonyms) :




Moringa arborea Verdcourt

ENGLISH : Kenyan moringa.

Moringa borziana Mattei

ENGLISH : Kenyan moringa, Somalian moringa.
Moringa concanensis Nimmo

ENGLISH : Indian moringa, Wild Indian horseradish tree..

TAMIL :  காட்டுமுருங்கை   Kattu murunkai, Murungai.


Moringa drouhardii Jumelle

ENGLISH :  Madagascar moringa.

MALAGASY :  Hazomalana, Maroserano, Moringy.

Moringa hildebrandtii Engler

ENGLISH : Madagascar moringa.
Moringa longituba Engler

ENGLISH : Ethiopian moringa, Kenyan moringa, Somalian moringa.

Moringa oleifera Lam.

SYNONYM(S) : Guilandina moringa L., Hyperanthera arborea J.F. Gmel. , Hyperanthera decandra Willd. ,  Hyperanthera moringa (L.) Vahl , Moringa erecta Salisb. ,   Moringa moringa (L.) Small,  Moringa octogona Stokes , Moringa parvifolia Noronha , Moringa polygona DC. ,  Moringa pterygosperma  Gaertn., nom. illeg.,  Moringa zeylanica Pers.

ARABIC : Alim, Halim (Sudan), Habbah ghaliah, Rawag (Sudan), Ruwag (Sudan), Shagara al ruwag (Sudan), Shagara al ruway (Sudan).

ASSAMESE :  Sojina.

BAMBARA :  Anamambo (Mali), Anamorongo (Mali), Feliimorongo (Mali), Felikambo (Mali),  Felikamoranga (Mali), Landihazo (Mali), Moringa, Moringy (Mali), Névrédé.

BENGALI : Munga ara,       Saajanaa (Sajna), Sojna, Sojne danta, Sujana.

BURMESE :  Daintha, Dandalonbin, Dan da lun, Dan da lun bin.

CHINESE : La mu.

CZECH : Moringa olejná.

DANISH : Behennødtræ.

DUTCH : Benboom, Peperwortel boom.

ENGLISH : Ben tree, Behn tree, Behen tree, Benzolive tree (USA), Drumstick, Drumstick tree, Horseradish tree, West Indian ben.

FRENCH : Ben ailé, Ben ailée, Ben oléifère, Moringa ailée, Pois quénique.

GERMAN : Behenbaum, Behennussbaum, Meerrettichbaum, Pferderettichbaum.

GUJARATI :  Midho saragavo, Saragavo, Saragvo, Seeng ni phali, Suragavo.

HAUSA :   Bagaruwar maka (Nigeria), Bagaruwar masar (Nigeria), Barambo, Danga, Koraukin zaila (Nigeria), Mágurua maser (Togo) , Rimin nacara (Nigeria), Rimin turawa (Nigeria), Samarin, Shipka hali (Nigeria), Shuka halinka (Nigeria), Zogalagandi (Cameroun), Zôgala gandi (Niger), Zogalla-gandi (Nigeria), Zogale.

HINDI :      मुनगा   Munagaa, Munga ara, Munuga, Muranka, Muruggai, सहिजन   Sahijan,  सहजन  Sahjan, संजना  Sanjna, सहुनजा   Sahunajaa, Shajmah, सहजना  Shajna, Segra, सेंजन   Senjana,  Shekta (as M. pterygosperma), Sekta ni sing, Soanjna, Suhujna.

HUNGARIAN : Lóretekfa.

ITALIAN : Been, Bemen.

JAPANESE :   マ ルンガイ Marungai,  モ リンガ・オレイフェラ   Marunga oreifera,  ワサビノキ Wasabi no ki,    Wasabi no ki.

KANNADA :  Nuggaeekayee, Nuggekayee.

KHMER : Daem mrom, Daem mrum.

LAOTIAN :  B'loum.

MALAGASY :  Anamambo, Anamorongo, Feliimorongo, Felikambo,  Felikamoranga, Landihazo, Moringa, Moringy.

MALAY :  Kachang kelur, Kelor (Bali, Java), Kalor (Indonesia), Lemunggai,  Meringgai, Remunggai ,  Sajor kelor, Semunggai, Smunggai, Semunggai, Tjelor (Bali).

MALAYALAM : Moringa, Morunna, Muringa, Muringai, Muringakka (fruit), Murinna, Sigru.

MARATHI :  शेवगा  Shevga, Shevga chi seeng, Shivga, Sujna.

NEPALESE :  Sajiwan, Sitachini, Swejan.

ORIYA :   Munigha, Sajana, Saijna, Sajina, Shajna, Soandal,  Sujuna.

PERSIAN :   درخت ترب اسبی

PORTUGUESE : Acácia branca, Moringa, Muringueiro.

PUNJABI :      Saajinaa, Sanjina, Soanjana.

RUSSIAN :   Моринга олейфера   Moringa oleifera, Моринга масличная.

SANSKRIT :  Danshamula,  Shobhanjana, Sigru Shobhanjan, Sobhan jana.

SINHALESE :       Moo rin guu (moh-RIN-guh) ,     Murunga (bean / pod), Murunga gasa (tree),      Murunga kolaya, Murunga kolle (leaves).

SPANISH :  Árbol del ben,  Arbol do los aspáragos,  Arbol de las perlas (Mexico), Arbol do los aspáragos, Babano del arbo, Ben, Jacinto (Panama), Jasmin francés, Jazmin francés (Puerto Rico), Maranga, Maranga calalu (Honduras), Marango (Costa Rica, Nicaragua), Palo de aceite ( Dominican Republic), Palo de abejas (Dominican Republic), Paraíso, Paraíso blanco (Guatemala), Paraíso de Espana (Mexico), Perla de la India (Mexico), Perlas del oriente (Mexico), Perlas (Guatemala), Resada (Puerto Rico).

SWAHILI :  Mboga chungu (Tanzania),  Mjungu moto (Tanzania), Mlonge (Kenya), Mlongo (Kenya), Mronge (Kenya), Mrongo (Kenya), Mlongo (Kenya), Mzunze (Kenya), Mzungu (Kenya) Shingo (Kenya).

TAGALOG :  Kalungai, Kamalungua, Malongai, Malungai, Malunggay talbos, Mulangai, Mulangay, Mulanggay.

TAMIL : Morunga,  முறுங்கை   Murungai,  முருங்கை  Murunkai ,  முருங்கை மரம்  Murungai maram (tree), Murunkak kai.

TELUGU :  Mulakkaya, Mulana, Munaga, Sajana, Tella munaga.

THAI :   กาแน้งเดิง   Ka naeng doeng,  มะค้อนก้อม  Ma khon kom,    มะรุม  Ma rum (bean / pod),  ผักอีฮึม  Phak i huem,  ผักอีฮุม  Phak i hum (Phak eehuem),   ผักเนื้อไก่   Phak nuea kai,    ผักมะรุม  Phak ma rum (leaves),  เส่ช่อยะ  Se cho ya.

URDU :  Sahajna.

VIETNAMESE : Chùm ngây.

VISAYAN :  Alungai, Dool, Malungit, Kamunggay.

YORUBA :  Adagba malero (Nigeria), Ewé igablé (Benin), Ewé igbalé (Nigeria), Ewé ilé (Benin, Nigeria), Ewe igbale (Nigeria), Ewé oyibo (Benin), Idagbo monoyé (Nigeria), Oyibo.


Collection of photos on Dave's Garden site (a world wide multicultural group of gardeners) < http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/221149/ >.


Moringa ovalifolia Dinter ex Berger

AFRIKAANS :  Meelsakboom (Namibia).

ENGLISH : Namibian moringa.

Moringa peregrina (Forssk.) Fiori

SYNONYM(S) :   Gymnocladus arabicus Lam., Hyperanthera peregrina Forssk. ,  Moringa aptera Gaertn. ,  Moringa arabica (Lam.) Pers.

ARABIC :   Al bân (tree) , Al Yassar, El bân, Habb al bân (fruit), Ithi, Jasaar, Shagara al rauwãq (Sudan), Vassar, Yassar.

GERMAN : Echter Bennußbaum.

Moringa pygmaea Verdcourt

ENGLISH :  Somalian moringa.

Moringa rivae Chiovenda

ENGLISH : Ethiopian moringa, Kenyan moringa.
Moringa rivae Chiovenda subsp. rivae

ENGLISH : Short-fruited Ethiopian moringa.
Moringa rivae Chiovenda subsp. longisiliqua

ENGLISH :  Long-fruited Ethiopian moringa.
Moringa ruspoliana Engler

ENGLISH : Ethiopian moringa, Kenyan moringa.
Moringa stenopetala (Baker f.) Cufodontis

ENGLISH : Ethiopian moringa, Kenyan moringa.


NOTES

It is likely that the many names from Africa attributed to Moringa oleifera could apply to other wild African species, especially in Kenya. We have included only few of the many African languages in the above compilation. For more names and language details please refer to the excellent listing  from Lowell Fuglie, 2006, African vernacular names of Moringa oleifera. < http://africasiaeuro.com/Moringanames.html >.





HOW TO CITE THIS PAGE / COLLECTION OF RECORDS

Porcher Michel H. et al. 1995 - 2020, Sorting Moringa Names. Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database   (M.M.P.N.D)  - A Work in Progress. School of Agriculture and Food Systems. Faculty of Land & Food Resources. The University of Melbourne. Australia.
< http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Moringa.html > (2008).

 

REFERENCES
General Bibliography
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Online
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Specific & complementary


ECHO , 1999, The Miracle Tree, Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization (ECHO) Inc. 17391 Durrance Rd. N. Ft. Myers, FL 33917 USA.

ECHO , 2001, The Miracle Tree, The Moringa Tree, Moringa oleifera < http://www.treesforlife.org/drumstick/more_names.htm > (many more names and languages).

EURODICAUTOM, On-line Technical Dictionary in 12 languages provided by the European Commission < http://eurodic.echo.lu/cgi-bin/edicbin/EuroDicWWW.pl?page=expert > (Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Latin with authority names)

Freedman Robert, 1998, Famine Foods, Moringaceae. < http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/FamineFoods/ff_families/MORINGACEAE.html >.

Lowell Fuglie, 2006, African vernacular names of Moringa oleifera. < http://africasiaeuro.com/Moringanames.html >.

Mabberley D.J. 1997, The Plant-Book : a Portable Dictionary of the Vascular Plants, 2d Edition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.

Olson Mark E. 2002, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México - Circuito Exterior s/n, Ciudad Universitaria, México. < http://www.explorelifeonearth.org/moringahome.html >.

Radhika Vathsan, Drumstick Tree, Flowers of India. < http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Drumstick%20Tree.html >.

Solomon Charmaine, 1996, Charmaine Solomon's Encyclopedia of Asian Food, Hamlyn.

Trees For Life International, 2007, List adapted from "The Miracle Tree/Moringa oleifera: Natural Nutrition for the Tropics" by Lowell Fuglie.
< http://www.treesforlife.org/our-work/our-initiatives/moringa/names-of-moringa >.

USDA, ARS, 2001, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN). [Online Database] National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Available: www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxdump.pl? moringa (18 July 2001).

Wiersema J. H. & León B. 1999, World Economic Plants : a Standard Reference. CRC Press LLC.

Xie Zongwa & Yu Youqin (Editors), 1996, Materia Medica, Chinese Terminology, Vol. 1, Renminweisheng Publishing House Beijing, China. (Latin with authority names and Chinese-simplified, text in Chinese).

 

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