different between ferment vs tempeh

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)

1. To react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by aging or by allowing yeast to act on sugars; to brew.
2. To stir up, agitate, cause unrest or excitement in.

Translations

Noun

ferment (plural ferments)

1. Something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation.
2. 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.

3. A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
4. 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

1. third-person plural present indicative of fermer
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of fermer

Romanian

Etymology

From French ferment, from Latin fermentum.

Noun

ferment m (plural fermen?i)

1. ferment

Declension

English

Etymology

From Indonesian tempe, possibly from Old Javanese tumpi (a food made from starch and tempeh), or Indonesian tapai (“fermentation”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?t?mpe?/

Noun

tempeh (countable and uncountable, plural tempehs)

1. An Indonesian food made from partially-cooked fermented soybeans, mixed with a fungus (Rhizopus oligosporus).
   • 2015, Labodalih Sembiring, translating Eka Kurniawan, Man Tiger, Verso 2015, p. 1:

     The leaves were of use only to the tempeh factories, which collected them every night.

Translations

References

French

Noun

tempeh m (plural tempehs)

1. tempeh

Malay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tempeh/
• Rhymes: -empeh, -peh, -eh

Noun

tempeh (Jawi spelling ???????, plural tempeh-tempeh, informal 1st possessive tempehku, impolite 2nd possessive tempehmu, 3rd possessive tempehnya)

1. Nonstandard spelling of tempe.