yeast

Significat (Anglès)

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.

Conceptes

llevat

rent

Sinònims

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

Traduccions

levure

Hefe

levadura

lievito

gist

μαγιά

levedura

fermento

ζύμη

maya

Germ

προζύμι

schuim

خميرة

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/jiːst/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: yest

Heretat de anglès antic: ġist

Cognat amb Saterfriesisch: Jääst

Cognat amb frisó occidental: gêst

Cognat amb neerlandès: gist

Cognat amb alemany: Gischt

Cognat amb suec: jäst

Cognat amb noruec: jest

Cognat amb islandès: 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”).