yeast

Etymology
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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  in order.
 * 4) A compressed cake or dried granules of this substance used for mixing with flour to make bread dough rise.
 * 5) brewer's yeast, certain species of, principally  and.
 * 6) Candida, a ubiquitous fungus that can cause various kinds of infections in humans.
 * 7) The resulting infection, candidiasis.
 * 8)  A frothy foam.
 * 1) The resulting infection, candidiasis.
 * 2)  A frothy foam.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: gis
 * Albanian: thartinë, ,
 * Arabic: خَمِيرَة
 * Moroccan Arabic: خميرة
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:, acıtma
 * Belarusian: дро́жджы
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: дро́жда
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chichewa: yisiti
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 酵母
 * Mandarin:
 * Cornish: burm, burmen
 * Czech:
 * Danish: gær
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:, pärmseened
 * Faroese: ger
 * Finnish:, hiivasieni
 * French:
 * Georgian: სოკო
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: ζύμη
 * Gujarati: યીસ્ટના
 * Haitian Creole: ledven
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: hiiva, töömees
 * Irish: giosta, gabháil
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kabuverdianu: furméntu
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: ашытқы
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ຢັ່ນ, ສ່າ, ຫມັກ, ເຊຶ້ອ
 * Latgalian: mīlis
 * Latin: fermentum
 * Latvian: ,
 * Lithuanian: mielės
 * Macedonian: квасец
 * Malay: yis, ragi, khamir
 * Malayalam: യീസ്റ്റ്
 * Maltese: ħmira
 * Manchu: ᠮᠠᡩᠠᠰᡠ
 * Maori: īhi, ihi
 * Maranao: tapay
 * Neapolitan: criscito
 * Norwegian:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: дрождиѩ
 * Ottoman Turkish: مایه
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Häw
 * Polabian: kosăc
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, levură,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: квас, квасац
 * Roman: ,
 * Skolt Sami: jäˊstt
 * Slovak: kvas, kvasinka
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: droždźeje
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: lebadura
 * Tajik:
 * Thai: ยีสต์, ส่า, เชื้อหมัก
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: hamyrmaýa
 * Ukrainian: дрі́жджі
 * Urdu: خمیر
 * Uyghur: ئېچىتقۇ
 * Uzbek:, ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: burum
 * Yiddish: הייוון


 * Afrikaans: gis
 * Albanian: thartinë
 * Arabic: خَمِيرَة
 * Moroccan Arabic: خميرة
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 酵母
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:, kvasnice
 * Danish: gær
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: fermentilo, feĉo
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: ger
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: levan
 * Georgian: საფუარი
 * German:, ,  ,  ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ζύμη
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Ido:
 * Irish: gabháil, giosta
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Latin: fermentum
 * Latvian:
 * Macedonian: квасец
 * Maori: īhi
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:
 * Ottoman Turkish: مایه
 * Persian:, لوور
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, levură
 * Romansch: levon, levànt, lavamaint, tschadamaint, alvo, alvamaint
 * Russian:
 * Somali:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: droždźeje
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: lebadura, pampaalsa
 * Taos: cą̀pienéna
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: дрі́жджі
 * Urdu: خمیر
 * Venetian: levà
 * Walloon:, , , leveure
 * Welsh: burum, berem


 * Albanian: thartinë
 * Arabic: خَمِيرَة
 * Moroccan Arabic: خميرة
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 酵母, 依仕
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:, kvasnice
 * Danish: gær
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: feĉo
 * Faroese: ger
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:, ,  ,  ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Interlingua: levatura
 * Irish: giosta, gabháil
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: イースト菌
 * Macedonian: квасец
 * Navajo: bááh bił álʼíní, dííkʼǫsh
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: квасац, герма
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: kvasnice, droždie
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: droždźeje
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: дрі́жджі


 * Arabic:
 * Moroccan Arabic: رغوة
 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Irish: coipeadh cúir
 * Italian: ,
 * Maltese: ragħwa
 * Portuguese:
 * Swedish:


 * Slovene: ,
 * Turkish:

Verb

 * 1) To ferment.
 * 2)  To rise.
 * 3)  To exaggerate.