English Explanatory Dictionary

yeast

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.
  2. A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
  3. A true yeast or budding yeast in order Saccharomycetales.
  4. baker's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae
  5. A compressed cake or dried granules of this substance used for mixing with flour to make bread dough rise.
  6. brewer's yeast, certain species of Saccharomyces, principally Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces carlsbergensis.
  7. Candida, a ubiquitous fungus that can cause various kinds of infections in humans.
  8. The resulting infection, candidiasis.
  9. A frothy foam.
verb
  1. To ferment.
  2. To rise.
  3. To exaggerate.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

yēst /jiːst/ /jist/ /iːst/ En-au-yeast.ogg

Word forms

yeast yeasts yeasting yeasted

Etymology

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”).

Related words

leaven nutritional yeast

Derived words

active dry yeast anti-yeast baker's yeast brewer's yeast compressed yeast fresh yeast pseudoyeast red yeast rice selenium yeast sphere-yeast true yeast turbo yeast yeast-bitten yeast bread yeast cake yeast dumpling yeast extract yeast infection yeasty

Translations

Afrikaans: gis Albanian: thartinë Albanian: tharm Albanian: maja Arabic: خَمِيرَة Arabic: خميرة Armenian: խմորիչ Azerbaijani: maya Azerbaijani: acıtma Belarusian: дро́жджы Bengali: খামির Bulgarian: дро́жда Burmese: တဆေး Catalan: llevat m rent Chichewa: yisiti Chinese Cantonese: 酵母 Chinese Mandarin: 酵母 Cornish: burm Cornish: burmen Czech: kvasinka Danish: gær Dutch: gist Esperanto: gisto Estonian: pärm Estonian: pärmseened Faroese: ger Finnish: hiiva Finnish: hiivasieni French: levure Galician: fermento Georgian: სოკო German: Hefe German: Hefepilz Greek: μαγιά Greek: ζύμη Ancient Greek: ζύμη Gujarati: યીસ્ટના Haitian Creole: ledven Hebrew: שְׁמָרִים Hindi: ख़मीर Hindi: खमीर Hungarian: élesztő Icelandic: ger Ido: hefo Indonesian: ragi Ingrian: hiiva Ingrian: töömees Irish: giosta Irish: gabháil Italian: lievito Japanese: 酵母 Kabuverdianu: furméntu
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