yeast

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

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

Translations

levure

levadura

Hefe

lievito

gist

μαγιά

levedura

fermento

ζύμη

maya

προζύμι

llevat

Germ

خميرة

Pronounced as (IPA)

/jiːst/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: yest

Inherited from Old English: ġist

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: Jääst

Cognate with Western Frisian: gêst

Cognate with Dutch: gist

Cognate with German: Gischt

Cognate with Swedish: jäst

Cognate with Norwegian: jest

Cognate with Icelandic: 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”).