NOPAZ BEAN see NOPAS . Tree native to America, dark brown. 8 complete pods weigh about 1 kg. Frijol is a deformation of fresol, from Old Spanish, which took it from the Latin phaseolus, 'bean' and phaselus. 'boat, canoe', for the similarity of the pod. In Panama, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Cuba is called bean, without tílde, with the accent in the o. In Peru and Ecuador it is called a bean. This legume is known by several other names: in Chile it is called poroto, derived from Quechua purutu. In Honduras it is called chimbaro and in El Salvador it is called chojol. Bean or beans derived from the Latin daba. In Spain they call it beans, from Arabic to (la) and from Persian lubiya.