yeast
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English yest, yeest, gest, gist, from Old English ġist, ġyst, from Proto-West Germanic *jestu, from Proto-Germanic *jestuz. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Jääst (“yeast”), West Frisian gêst, gist (“yeast”), Dutch gist (“yeast”), German Low German Gest (“yeast”), German Gischt (“sea foam”), Swedish jäst (“yeast”), Norwegian jest (“yeast”), Icelandic jöstur (“yeast”).
Inflected forms:
form: yeasts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: yeasts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: yeasting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: yeasted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: yeasted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A single-celled fungus of any of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A microscopical examination of the yeast taken from these rapid vigorous fermentations will only be able to give useful conclusions in one respect.
gloss: A single-celled fungus of any of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A single-celled fungus of any of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A single-celled fungus of any of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A single-celled fungus of any of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A single-celled fungus of any of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A frothy foam.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: But what most puzzled and confounded you was a long, limber, portentous, black mass of something hovering in the centre of the picture over three blue, dim, perpendicular lines floating in a nameless yeast.
gloss: To ferment.
pos: verb
gloss: To rise.
pos: verb
gloss: To exaggerate.
pos: verb
tags: slang
Related words: leaven
nutritional yeast
Derived words: active dry yeast
anti-yeast
baker's yeast
brewer's yeast
compressed yeast
fresh yeast
pseudoyeast
red yeast rice
selenium yeast
sphere-yeast
true yeast
turbo yeast
yeast-bitten
yeast bread
yeast cake
yeast dumpling
yeast extract
yeast infection
yeasty
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: gis
lang: Albanian
word: thartinë
lang: Albanian
word: tharm
lang: Albanian
word: maja
lang: Arabic
word: خَمِيرَة
roman: ḵamīra
lang: Arabic
word: خميرة
roman: ḵmīra
lang: Armenian
word: խմորիչ
roman: xmoričʻ
lang: Azerbaijani
word: maya
lang: Azerbaijani
word: acıtma
lang: Belarusian
word: дро́жджы
roman: dróždžy
lang: Bengali
word: খামির
roman: khamir
lang: Bulgarian
word: дро́жда
roman: dróžda
lang: Burmese
word: တဆေး
roman: ta.hce:
lang: Catalan
word: llevat m rent
lang: Chichewa
word: yisiti
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 酵母
roman: haau¹ mou⁵
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 酵母
roman: mainland China: jiàomǔ; Taiwan: xiàomǔ
lang: Cornish
word: burm
lang: Cornish
word: burmen
lang: Czech
word: kvasinka
lang: Danish
word: gær
lang: Dutch
word: gist
lang: Esperanto
word: gisto
lang: Estonian
word: pärm
lang: Estonian
word: pärmseened
lang: Faroese
word: ger
lang: Finnish
word: hiiva
lang: Finnish
word: hiivasieni
lang: French
word: levure
lang: Galician
word: fermento
lang: Georgian
word: სოკო
roman: soḳo
lang: German
word: Hefe
lang: German
word: Hefepilz
lang: Greek
word: μαγιά
roman: magiá
lang: Greek
word: ζύμη
roman: zými
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ζύμη
roman: zúmē
lang: Gujarati
word: યીસ્ટના
roman: yīsṭanā
lang: Haitian Creole
word: ledven
lang: Hebrew
word: שְׁמָרִים
roman: sh'marím
lang: Hindi
word: ख़मीर
roman: xamīr
lang: Hindi
word: खमीर
roman: khamīr
lang: Hungarian
word: élesztő
lang: Icelandic
word: ger
lang: Ido
word: hefo
lang: Indonesian
word: ragi
lang: Ingrian
word: hiiva
lang: Ingrian
word: töömees
lang: Irish
word: giosta
lang: Irish
word: gabháil
lang: Italian
word: lievito
lang: Japanese
word: 酵母
roman: kōbo
lang: Kabuverdianu
word: furméntu
lang: Kannada
word: ಹುದುಗು
roman: hudugu
lang: Kazakh
word: ашытқы
roman: aşytqy
lang: Khmer
word: ដំបែ
roman: dɑmbae
lang: Korean
word: 효모
roman: hyomo
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: hevîrtirş
lang: Kyrgyz
word: ачыткы
roman: acıtkı
lang: Lao
word: ຢັ່ນ
roman: yan
lang: Lao
word: ສ່າ
roman: sā
lang: Lao
word: ຫມັກ
roman: mak
lang: Lao
word: ເຊຶ້ອ
roman: sưa
lang: Latgalian
word: mīlis
lang: Latin
word: fermentum
lang: Latvian
word: raugs
lang: Latvian
word: ieraugs
lang: Lithuanian
word: mielės
lang: Macedonian
word: квасец
roman: kvasec
lang: Malay
word: yis
lang: Malay
word: ragi
lang: Malay
word: khamir
lang: Malayalam
word: യീസ്റ്റ്
roman: yīsṟṟŭ
lang: Maltese
word: ħmira
lang: Manchu
word: ᠮᠠᡩᠠᠰᡠ
roman: madasu
lang: Māori
word: īhi
lang: Māori
word: ihi
lang: Maranao
word: tapay
lang: Neapolitan
word: criscito
lang: Norwegian
word: gjær
lang: Norwegian
word: jest
lang: Church Slavic
word: дрождиѩ
roman: droždiję
lang: Pashto
word: سپېسته
roman: spésta
lang: Pashto
word: تومنه
roman: twámna
lang: Pashto
word: مايه
roman: māyá
lang: Persian
word: مخمر
roman: moxammer
lang: Persian
word: بوزک
roman: buzak
lang: Persian
word: خمیرترش
roman: xamirtorš
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Häw
lang: Polabian
word: kosăc
lang: Polish
word: drożdże
lang: Portuguese
word: fermento
lang: Portuguese
word: levedura
lang: Romanian
word: drojdie
lang: Romanian
word: levură
lang: Romanian
word: ferment
lang: Russian
word: дро́жжи
roman: dróžži
lang: Skolt-Sami
word: jäˊstt
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: квас
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: квасац
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: kvas
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: kvasac
lang: Slovak
word: kvas
lang: Slovak
word: kvasinka
lang: Slovene
word: kvas
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: droždźeje
lang: Spanish
word: levadura
lang: Spanish
word: levadura fúngica
lang: Swahili
word: hamira
lang: Swedish
word: jäst
lang: Tagalog
word: lebadura
lang: Tajik
word: хамиртуруш
roman: xamirturuš
lang: Thai
word: ยีสต์
roman: yíis
lang: Thai
word: ส่า
roman: sàa
lang: Thai
word: เชื้อหมัก
lang: Tibetan
word: ཕབས
roman: phabs
lang: Turkish
word: maya
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: مایه
roman: maya
lang: Turkmen
word: hamyrmaýa
lang: Ukrainian
word: дрі́жджі
roman: dríždži
lang: Urdu
word: خمیر
roman: xamīr
lang: Uyghur
word: ئېچىتقۇ
roman: ëchitqu
lang: Uzbek
word: achitqi
lang: Uzbek
word: xamirturush
lang: Uzbek
word: drojji
lang: Vietnamese
word: men
lang: Welsh
word: burum
lang: Yiddish
word: הייוון
roman: heyvn