leaven

Etymology
From, borrowed from , from , a noun based on.

Noun

 * 1) Any agent used to make dough rise or to have a similar effect on baked goods.
 * 2)  Anything that induces change, especially a corrupting or vitiating change.

Synonyms

 * leavening agent, raising agent

Hypernyms

 * agent, substance

Hyponyms

 * baking powder, yeast

Translations

 * Arabic: خَمِيرَة
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bulgarian: набухвател
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Classical Nahuatl: xocotextli
 * Cornish: gwel
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: fermentilo
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Friulian: levan
 * Galician:, , isco
 * German: Treibmittel, Triebmittel,
 * Gothic: 𐌱𐌴𐌹𐍃𐍄
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ζύμη
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ido:
 * Irish: gabháil
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: パン種, 膨張剤
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ھەوێن
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Latvian: rauga
 * Lithuanian: raugas
 * Malay: bahan penaik
 * Manx: jastee, jiastyn, soorid
 * Maori: rēwena
 * Middle English: sour dogh, levayn
 * Norwegian: hevingsmiddel
 * Occitan:
 * Old Church Slavonic: квасъ
 * Ottoman Turkish: مایه
 * Persian:
 * Polish: zaczyn
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, , covoseală,
 * Romansch: levon, levànt, lavamaint, tschadamaint, alvo, alvamaint
 * Russian: ,
 * Sicilian:
 * Spanish:, polvos de hornear
 * Swahili: ,
 * Tagalog: lebadura
 * Turkish:
 * Venetian: levà
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: surdoes, eples, lefain

Verb

 * 1)  To add a leavening agent.
 * 2)  To cause to rise by fermentation.
 * 3)  To temper an action or decision.
 * 4)  To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.
 * 5) To rise or become larger.
 * 1)  To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.
 * 2) To rise or become larger.
 * 1) To rise or become larger.
 * 1) To rise or become larger.

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * Ido: hefizar
 * Italian:
 * Spanish:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: faire lever, faire fermenter
 * Galician:
 * Hungarian:, megkeleszt,
 * Italian:
 * Maori: rēwena
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Spanish: