Dry yeast, for use in baking. (3)
A diagram of a typical yeast cell
Etymology
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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 ” ) .
Pronunciation
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yeast (countable and uncountable , plural yeasts )
An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer , leaven bread , and also used in certain medicines.
A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
1903 , Alfred Peter Carlslund Jørgensen (R. Grey, translator), Practical Management of Pure Yeast: The Application and Examination of Brewery, Distillery, and Wine, Yeasts , The Brewing trade review, page 17 :A microscopical examination of the yeast taken from these rapid vigorous fermentations will only be able to give useful conclusions in one respect.
A true yeast or budding yeast in order Saccharomycetales .
baker's yeast , Saccharomyces cerevisiae
A compressed cake or dried granules of this substance used for mixing with flour to make bread dough rise.
brewer's yeast , certain species of Saccharomyces , principally Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces carlsbergensis .
Candida , a ubiquitous fungus that can cause various kinds of infections in humans.
The resulting infection, candidiasis .
( figuratively ) A frothy foam.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville , Moby-Dick; or, The Whale , 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers ; London: Richard Bentley , →OCLC :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 .
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Translations
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fungus
Afrikaans: gis
Albanian: thartinë f , tharm (sq) m , maja (sq) f
Arabic: خَمِيرَة f ( ḵamīra )
Moroccan Arabic: خميرة f ( ḵmīra )
Armenian: խմորիչ (hy) ( xmoričʻ )
Azerbaijani: maya (az) , acıtma
Belarusian: дро́жджы f pl ( dróždžy )
Bengali: খামির (bn) ( khamir )
Bulgarian: дро́жда m ( dróžda ) ( mostly plural )
Burmese: တဆေး (my) ( ta.hce: )
Catalan: llevat (ca) m
Chichewa: yisiti
Chinese:
Cantonese: 酵母 ( haau1 mou5 )
Mandarin: 酵母 (zh) ( mainland China: jiàomǔ; Taiwan: xiàomǔ )
Czech: kvasinka (cs) f
Danish: gær c
Dutch: gist (nl) m
Esperanto: gisto (eo)
Estonian: pärm (et) , pärmseened
Faroese: ger f
Finnish: hiiva (fi) , hiivasieni
French: levure (fr) f
Georgian: სოკო ( soḳo )
German: Hefe (de) f , Hefepilz (de) m
Greek: μαγιά (el) f ( magiá ) , ζύμη (el) f ( zými )
Ancient: ζύμη f ( zúmē )
Gujarati: યીસ્ટના f ( yīsṭanā )
Haitian Creole: ledven
Hebrew: שְׁמָרִים (he) m pl ( sh'marím )
Hindi: ख़मीर (hi) m ( xamīr ) , खमीर (hi) m ( khamīr )
Hungarian: élesztő (hu)
Icelandic: ger (is) n
Ido: hefo (io)
Indonesian: ragi (id)
Ingrian: hiiva , töömees
Irish: giosta m , gabháil f
Italian: lievito (it) m
Japanese: 酵母 (ja) ( こうぼ, kōbo )
Kabuverdianu: furméntu
Kannada: ಹುದುಗು (kn) ( hudugu )
Kazakh: ашытқы ( aşytqy )
Khmer: ដំបែ (km) ( dɑmbae )
Korean: 효모(酵母) (ko) ( hyomo )
Kyrgyz: ачыткы (ky) ( acıtkı )
Lao: ຢັ່ນ ( yan ) , ສ່າ ( sā ) , ຫມັກ ( mak ) , ເຊຶ້ອ ( sưa )
Latgalian: mīlis m
Latin: fermentum n
Latvian: raugs (lv) m , ieraugs (lv) m
Lithuanian: mielės m
Macedonian: квасец m ( kvasec )
Malay: yis , ragi , khamir
Malayalam: യീസ്റ്റ് ( yīsṟṟŭ )
Maltese: ħmira f
Manchu: ᠮᠠᡩᠠᠰᡠ ( madasu )
Maori: īhi
Maranao: tapay
Neapolitan: criscito
Norwegian: gjær (no) m
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: дрождиѩ f pl ( droždiję )
Ottoman Turkish: مایه ( maya )
Persian: مخمر (fa) ( moxammer )
Plautdietsch: Häw f
Polabian: kosăc m
Polish: drożdże (pl) f pl
Portuguese: fermento (pt) , levedura (pt)
Romanian: drojdie (ro) f , levură f , ferment (ro)
Russian: дро́жжи (ru) f pl ( dróžži )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: квас m , квасац m
Roman: kvas (sh) m , kvasac (sh) m
Skolt Sami: jäˊstt
Slovak: kvas m , kvasinka f
Slovene: kvas (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: droždźeje pl
Spanish: levadura (es) f
Swahili: hamira (sw)
Swedish: jäst (sv)
Tagalog: lebadura
Tajik: хамиртуруш (tg) ( xamirturuš )
Thai: ยีสต์ ( yíis ) , ส่า ( sàa ) , เชื้อหมัก
Turkish: maya (tr)
Turkmen: hamyrmaýa
Ukrainian: дрі́жджі m pl ( dríždži )
Urdu: خمیر m ( xamīr )
Uyghur: ئېچىتقۇ ( ëchitqu )
Uzbek: achitqi (uz) , xamirturush (uz) , drojji (uz)
Vietnamese: men (vi)
Welsh: burum m
Yiddish: הייוון f pl ( heyvn )
froth used in medicine, baking and brewing
Afrikaans: gis sg
Albanian: thartinë f
Arabic: خَمِيرَة f ( ḵamīra )
Moroccan Arabic: خميرة f ( ḵmīra )
Armenian: թթխմոր (hy) ( tʻtʻxmor )
Bulgarian: мая́ (bg) f ( majá ) , квас (bg) m ( kvas )
Catalan: llevat (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 酵母 ( haau1 mou5 )
Mandarin: 酵母 (zh) ( mainland China: jiàomǔ; Taiwan: xiàomǔ )
Czech: droždí (cs) n , kvasnice f pl
Danish: gær c
Dutch: gist (nl) m
Esperanto: fermentilo , feĉo
Estonian: pärm (et)
Faroese: ger f
Finnish: hiiva (fi)
French: levure (fr) f
Friulian: levan m
Georgian: საფუარი ( sapuari )
German: Hefe (de) f , ( Northern Germany ) Bärme (de) f , ( southeastern Germany, Austria ) Germ (de) f , ( regional, especially in Northern Germany outdated, in South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal) rare ) Gest (de) m or f , ( South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal) ) Yeast (de) m
Greek:
Ancient: ζύμη f ( zúmē )
Hebrew: שמרים (he)
Hindi: ख़मीर (hi) m ( xamīr ) , खमीर (hi) m ( khamīr )
Ido: hefo (io)
Irish: gabháil f , giosta m
Italian: lievito (it) m , fermento (it) m
Japanese: 酵母 (ja) ( kōbo ) , イースト (ja) ( īsuto )
Korean: 효모(酵母) (ko) ( hyomo )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: hevîrtirş (ku) f
Latin: fermentum n
Latvian: raugs (lv) f
Macedonian: квасец m ( kvasec )
Maori: īhi
Norwegian: gjær (no) m
Occitan: levadura (oc) f
Ottoman Turkish: مایه ( maya )
Persian: مخمر (fa) ( moxammer ) , لوور ( levur )
Polish: drożdże (pl) f pl
Portuguese: fermento (pt) , levedura (pt)
Romanian: drojdie (ro) f , levură f
Romansch: levon m , levànt m , lavamaint m , tschadamaint m , alvo , alvamaint m
Russian: дро́жжи (ru) f pl ( dróžži )
Somali: khamiir (so)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: droždźeje pl
Spanish: levadura (es) f
Swedish: jäst (sv)
Tagalog: lebadura , pampaalsa
Taos: cą̀pienéna
Turkish: maya (tr) , hamur (tr)
Ukrainian: дрі́жджі f pl ( dríždži )
Urdu: خمیر m ( xamīr )
Venetian: levà m
Walloon: yesse (wa) f , yesses (wa) pl or f , leyes (wa) pl or f , leveure f
Welsh: burum m , berem m ( South )
cake or dried granules used to make bread dough rise
Albanian: thartinë f
Arabic: خَمِيرَة f ( ḵamīra )
Moroccan Arabic: خميرة f ( ḵmīra )
Armenian: թթխմոր (hy) ( tʻtʻxmor )
Bulgarian: мая (bg) ( maja )
Catalan: llevat (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 酵母 ( haau1 mou5 ) , 依仕 ( ji1 si6-2 )
Mandarin: 酵母 (zh) ( mainland China: jiàomǔ; Taiwan: xiàomǔ )
Czech: droždí (cs) n , kvasnice f pl
Danish: gær c
Dutch: gist (nl) m
Esperanto: feĉo
Faroese: ger f
Finnish: hiiva (fi) , kuivahiiva (fi)
French: levure (fr) f
German: Hefe (de) f , ( Northern Germany ) Bärme (de) f , ( southeastern Germany, Austria ) Germ (de) f , ( regional, especially in Northern Germany outdated, in South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal) rare ) Gest (de) m or f , ( South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal) ) Yeast (de) m
Icelandic: ger (is) n
Ido: hefo (io)
Interlingua: levatura
Irish: giosta m , gabháil f
Italian: lievito (it) m
Japanese: イースト菌 ( イーストきん, īsuto-kin )
Macedonian: квасец m ( kvasec )
Navajo: bááh bił álʼíní , dííkʼǫsh
Norwegian: ( no gender ) gjær (no)
Persian: خمیرمایه (fa) ( xamirmâye )
Polish: drożdże (pl) pl
Portuguese: levedura (pt) f
Russian: дро́жжи (ru) f pl ( dróžži )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: квасац m , герма f
Roman: kvasac (sh) m , germa (sh) f
Slovak: kvasnice , droždie n
Slovene: kvas (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: droždźeje pl
Spanish: levadura (es) f
Swedish: jäst (sv) c
Turkish: maya (tr)
Ukrainian: дрі́жджі f pl ( dríždži )
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See also
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yeast (third-person singular simple present yeasts , present participle yeasting , simple past and past participle yeasted )
To ferment .
( of something prepared with a yeasted dough ) To rise .
( African-American Vernacular , slang ) To exaggerate . [2]
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