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ferment
English
Etymology
From Middle French ferment, from Latin fermentare (“to leaven, ferment”), from fermentum (“substance causing fermentation”), from fervere (“to boil, seethe”). See also fervent.
Pronunciation
- (verb):
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /f??m?nt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /f??m?nt/
- (noun):
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?f??m?nt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?f?m?nt/
Verb
ferment (third-person singular simple present ferments, present participle fermenting, simple past and past participle fermented)
- To react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by aging or by allowing yeast to act on sugars; to brew.
- To stir up, agitate, cause unrest or excitement in.
Translations
Noun
ferment (plural ferments)
- Something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation.
- A state of agitation or of turbulent change.
- a. 1729, John Rogers, The Difficulties of Obtaining Salvation
- Subdue and cool the ferment of desire.
- 14 November, 1770, Junius, letter to the Right Honourable Lord Mansfield
- The nation is in a ferment.
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 104
- Clad in a Persian-Renaissance gown and a widow's tiara of white batiste, Mrs Thoroughfare, in all the ferment of a Marriage-Christening, left her chamber on vapoury autumn day and descending a few stairs, and climbing a few others, knocked a trifle brusquely at her son's wife's door.
- a. 1729, John Rogers, The Difficulties of Obtaining Salvation
- A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
- A catalyst.
Translations
See also
- foment
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “ferment”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
- ferment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- Fermentation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- fretmen
French
Verb
ferment
- third-person plural present indicative of fermer
- third-person plural present subjunctive of fermer
Romanian
Etymology
From French ferment, from Latin fermentum.
Noun
ferment m (plural fermen?i)
- ferment
Declension
ferment From the web:
- what fermentation
- what fermentation does yeast use
- what fermentation makes bread
- what fermentation occurs in animals
- what ferments wine
- what fermentation occurs in yeast
- what fermented foods are good for you
- what ferments kimchi
mwenge
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Luganda omwenge.
Noun
mwenge (uncountable)
- An alcoholic drink of Uganda, made with fermented bananas and sorghum.
Bemba
Noun
mwenge 3
- A species of tree, Diplorhynchus mossambicensis.
Maore Comorian
Noun
mwenge 3 (plural menge 4)
- electricity
- light
References
- “mwenge” in Outils & Ressources pour l'Exploitation de la Langue Comorienne, 2008.
Pohnpeian
Noun
mwenge
- food
Swahili
Pronunciation
Noun
mwenge (m-mi class, plural mienge)
- (flaming) torch, firebrand
mwenge From the web:
- what does mwenge mean
- what does menge mean in swahili
- mwenge meaning
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