different between zest vs yen

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French zeste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /z?st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

zest (countable and uncountable, plural zests)

1. The outer skin of a citrus fruit, used as a flavouring or garnish.

   The orange zest gives the strong flavor in this dish.

2. General vibrance of flavour.

   I add zest to the meat by rubbing it with a spice mixture before grilling.

   • 1959, Peter De Vries, The Tents of Wickedness, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., “The Treehouse,” Chapter 7, p. 92,^[1]

     He rolled his own cigarettes from a sack of Bull Durham, spilling flakes into his beer, which no doubt gained in zest thereby.

   • 1978, Joseph Singer et al. (translators), Shosha by Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York: Fawcett Crest, Part One, Chapter Five, 1, p. 99,^[2]

     Bashele’s dishes tasted as good as they had when I was a child. No one could give to the borscht such a sweet-and-sour zest as Bashele.

3. (by extension) Enthusiasm; keen enjoyment; relish; gusto.

   Auntie Mame had a real zest for life.

   • 1728, Edward Young, Love of Fame, the Universal Passion, Satire II in The Works of the Reverend Edward Young, London: P. Brown, H. Hill & S. Payne, 1765, Volume I, p. 85,^[3]

     Almighty vanity! to thee they owe

     Their zest of pleasure, and their balm of woe.

   • 1807, Thomas Cogan, An Ethical Treatise on the Passions, Bath: Hazard & Binns, Part 1, Disquisition 1, Chapter 1, Section 1 “On the utility of the Passions and Affections,” p. 51,^[4]

     Liberality of disposition and conduct gives the highest zest and relish to social intercourse.

   • 1928, D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, New York: Barnes & Noble, 1995, Chapter 9, p. 101,^[5]

     Once started, Mrs. Bolton was better than any book, about the lives of the people. She knew them all so intimately, and had such a peculiar, flamey zest in all their affairs, it was wonderful, if just a trifle humiliating to listen to her.

   • 1962, James Baldwin, Another Country, New York: Dell, 1963, Book Two, Chapter 2, p. 221,^[6]

     The singers, male and female, wore blue jeans and long hair and had more zest than talent.
4. (rare) The woody, thick skin enclosing the kernel of a walnut.
   • 2006, N. J. Nusha, On the Edge (Short Stories), Lahore: Sang-e-Meel Publications, p. 85,

     The green zest of walnuts was used by the women to shine their teeth and it also gave a beautiful rust colour to their lips.

Synonyms

• (enthusiasm): gusto, relish
• (general vibrance of flavour): punch, spice, tang, zing

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

zest (third-person singular simple present zests, present participle zesting, simple past and past participle zested)

1. (cooking) To scrape the zest from a fruit.
2. To make more zesty.
   • 1792, James Cobb, The Siege of Belgrade, a Comic Opera, in Three Acts, page 47:

     Strains ?o artle?s tho’ we proffer,
     Hearts o’er flowing zest the offer.

Derived terms

• zester

References

Anagrams

• Tsez

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /z?st/

Noun

zest m (plural zests)

1. zest (of a fruit)

Further reading

• “zest” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Swedish

Noun

zest c

1. zest; the outer skin of a citrus fruit

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?n/
• Rhymes: -?n

Etymology 1

From Medhurst and Hepburn’s romanizations, under the influence of earlier Portuguese romanizations, of Japanese ? (“round; a round object”) as ye or yen, now ? (en), from Chinese ?? (yínyuán, “round silver object(s), especially a piece of eight”): ? (“silver”) + ? (“circular, round; yuan, yen, dollar”). Cognate with Chinese ? (yuán, “monetary unit, especially RMB”) and Korean ? (won, “North or South Korean won”). Doublet of won and yuan.

Noun

yen (plural yen)

1. The unit of Japanese currency (symbol: ¥) since 1871, divided into 100 sen.
2. A coin or note worth one yen.

Synonyms

• JPY

Translations

Etymology 2

Origin uncertain, but probably from Cantonese ? (jan⁵, “craving”) originally in reference to opium addiction, ?? or ?? (jin¹-jan⁵): ?, ? (jin¹, “smoke, specifically opium”). Compare the later yen (“opium”) and yen-yen.

Noun

yen (plural yens)

2. A strong desire, urge, or yearning.

   Synonyms: craving, desire, hankering, jones, longing, urge, yearning

   • 1934, Lew Levenson, chapter XX, in Butterfly Man, New York, N.Y.: Castle Books, ?OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Castle Books, [1960?], ?OCLC, page 208:

     She repeated the words: "You for me and me for you," then hummed: "Two for tea and tea for two …" Her voice trailed off … "All I got is a yen for Diana and my sweet little cute little Zigzag."

Translations

Verb

yen (third-person singular simple present yens, present participle yenning, simple past and past participle yenned)

1. (transitive) To have a strong desire for.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Chinese ?, ? (y?n), or Cantonese ?, ? (jin¹, “smoke, specifically opium”). Compare the earlier yen (“strong desire”) and later yen-yen.

Noun

yen (uncountable)

1. (slang) Opium.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:opium

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• Japanese yen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• -yne, NYE, Ney, Nye, eny, ney, nye

Bambara

Adverb

yen

1. there

See also

• yan

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ? (en, “yen, circle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?n/
• Hyphenation: yen
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

yen m (plural yens)

1. yen, Japanese monetary unit and coin.

French

Etymology

From Japanese.

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /j?n/
• Homophone: hyène (hyène can have aspirate or mute h, whereas yen is always "aspirate")

Noun

yen m (plural yens)

1. yen (currency)

Further reading

• “yen” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Ido

Etymology 1

From Esperanto jen, from German jener.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jen/

Interjection

yen

1. look here, behold, lo

Conjunction

yen

1. here is, there is

Synonyms

• yen hike
• yen ibe

Preposition

yen

1. here is

Synonyms

• yen ke

Derived terms

• yena
• yene

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Japanese ?.

Noun

yen (plural yen)

1. yen (Japanese currency)

Indonesian

Etymology

From the influence of earlier Portuguese romanizations, of Japanese ? (“round; a round object”) as ye or yen, now ? (en), from Chinese ?? (yínyuán, “round silver object(s), especially a piece of eight”): ? (“silver”) + ? (“circular, round; yuan, yen, dollar”). Cognate with Chinese ? (yuán, “monetary unit, especially RMB”) and Korean ? (won, “North or South Korean won”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?n/, /jen/
• Hyphenation: yèn

Noun

yen (first-person possessive yenku, second-person possessive yenmu, third-person possessive yennya)

1. yen, the unit of Japanese currency (symbol: ¥) since 1871, divided into 100 sen.

References

Further reading

• “yen” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Koko-Bera

Pronoun

yen (accusative yintéw, dative yintéw)

1. you; second person singular pronoun, nominative case

References

• 2008, Paul Black, Pronominal Accretions in Pama-Nyungan, in Morphology and Language History ?ISBN, edited by Claire Bowern, Bethwyn Evans, Luisa Miceli)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

yen m (definite singular yenen, indefinite plural yen, definite plural yenane)

1. (numismatics) yen

References

• “yen” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish lleno.

Adjective

yen

1. full

Spanish

Etymology

From Japanese ? (en).

Pronunciation

Noun

yen m (plural yenes)

1. yen

Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ye? (“sleeve”).

Noun

yen (definite accusative yeni, plural yenler)

1. sleeve

Verb

yen

1. second-person singular imperative of yenmek

Volapük

Etymology

From Japanese ? (en)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [jen]

Noun

yen (nominative plural yens)

1. yen

Declension

Zhuang

Etymology

From Mandarin ??? (xiàn).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /je?n??/
• Tone numbers: yen⁵
• Hyphenation: yen

Noun

yen (old orthography yen)

1. county