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Pronunciation
AHD|y�st, IPA|/ji�st/, SAMPA|/ji:st/ (also IPA|/i�st/, SAMPA|/i�st/)
:* rhymes|i�st

Image:Dry yeast.jpg|thumb|right|Dry yeast, for use in baking. (3)

Noun
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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 or dried granules of this substance used for mixing with flour to make bread dough rise.
4. figuratively A frothy foam on sea waves.

Derived terms
yeasty

Translations
trans-top|fungus
Chinese: �� xiào m�
Czech: kvasinka f
Danish: gær c
Dutch: t+|nl|gist|m
Estonian: pärm, pärmseened
Finnish: hiiva, hiivasieni
French: levure f
German: Hefe f
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Greek: μαγιά f, ζ�μη f
Japanese: �� (k�bo)
Korean: �모 (hyomo)
Polish: drożdże f|p
Russian: д�ожжи (dróžži) f|p
Spanish: levadura f
Swedish: jäst
Irish: giosta m
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trans-top|froth used in medicine, baking and brewing
Arabic: ARchar|خ��رة (khamíra) f
Czech: droždí n, kvasnice f|p
Danish: gær c
Dutch: t+|nl|gist|m
Estonian: pärm
Finnish: hiiva
French: levure f
German: Hefe f
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Italian: lievito m
Japanese: �� (k�bo), ���� (īsuto)
Korean: �모 (hyomo)
Polish: drożdże f|p
Russian: д�ожжи (dróžži) f|p
Spanish: levadura f
Swedish: jäst
Irish: gabháil f giosta m
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trans-top|cake or dried granules used to make bread dough rise
Arabic: ARchar|خ��رة (khamíra) f
Czech: droždí n, kvasnice f|p
Danish: gær c
Dutch: t+|nl|gist|m
Finnish: hiiva, kuivahiiva
French: levure f
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Icelandic: ger n
Italian: lievito m
Japanese: ����� (īsuto-kin)
Russian: д�ожжи (dróžži) f|p
Spanish: levadura f
Irish gabháil f giosta m
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trans-top|frothy foam
Dutch: t|nl|schuim|n
Finnish: vaahto
Greek: μαγιά f
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Italian: schiuma di un'onda f
Irish: coipeadh m cúr m
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trans-top|Translations to be checked
ttbc|Arabic: ARchar|خ��رة (khamíra) f
ttbc|Armenian: թթխմո� (tt��mor)
ttbc|Chinese: �� (jiàom�)
ttbc|Croatian: kvasac m
ttbc|Faroese: ger
ttbc|Hungarian: éleszt�
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ttbc|Interlingua: levatura (1)
ttbc|Portuguese: fermento m
ttbc|Romanian: ferment, levur�, ţaic�, drojdie
ttbc|Slovene: kvas m, droži f|p
ttbc|Turkish: maya
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See also
leaven
nutritional yeast

Category:Fungi

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