Yeast

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Noun 1.1.1 Translations 1.1.2 Derivatives 1.2 See also

English

Noun

yeast (uncountable and countable; plural: yeasts)

1. A type of single-celled fungus.
2. an often humid, yellowish froth, made of these fungi, used in medicine, in baking and in brewing beer.
3. a compressed cake of this substance used for mixing with flour to make bread dough rise.
4. said of mental distress or agitation.
5. (figurative) a frothy foam on sea waves.

Translations

• Arabic: خميرة
• Armenian: թթխմոր
• Chinese: 酵母
• Danish: gær
• Dutch: gist m (1, 2), schuim (4)
• Faroese: ger
• French: levure f (1, 2)
• Finnish: hiiva
• German: Hefe f (1, 2)
• Greek: ζύμη f
• Interlingua: levatura (1)
• Italian: lievito m (1, 2)
• Japanese: イースト (Ä«suto)
• Korean: 효모
• Polish: Drożdże
• Portuguese: fermento m
• Russian: дрожди (drozhdi)
• Spanish: levadura f (1)
• Swedish: jäst (1,2)
• Turkish: maya

Derivatives

• yeasty

See also

• leaven
• nutritional yeastfr:yeast

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