yeast

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.
2. (countable, uncountable) A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
3. (countable, uncountable) A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
4. (countable, uncountable) A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
5. (countable, uncountable) A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
6. (countable, uncountable) A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
7. (countable, uncountable) A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
8. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) A frothy foam.

Verb

1. To ferment.
2. To rise.
3. (slang) To exaggerate.

Sinonieme

leaven

ferment

barm

leavening agent

zyme

malt

baking powder

foam

froth

lather

leavening

mash

mother

👩‍🍼

paste

pastry

powdery

rising

sediment

spume

yeasty

sexually aroused

yeast fungus

leavenbent

saccharomyces

saccharomycete

flour for fermentation

emptyings

fermented preparation

baking soda

cream

crooked

dough

east

flexure

Vertalings

levure

levadura

Hefe

lievito

gist

μαγιά

levedura

fermento

ζύμη

maya

προζύμι

llevat

Germ

خميرة

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/jiːst/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: yest

Geërf van Old English: ġist

Verwante met Saterfriesisch: Jääst

Verwante met Fries: gêst

Verwante met Nederlands: gist

Verwante met Duits: Gischt

Verwante met Sweeds: jäst

Verwante met Noors: jest

Verwante met Yslands: jöstur

In summary

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”).