ferment

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈfɜː.mɛnt/
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• General-American: /ˈfɚ.mɛnt/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /fəˈmɛnt/
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• General-American: /fɚˈmɛnt/
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• rhymes with -ɛnt
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• CMU ARPABET: F ER0 M EH1 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: F ER1 M EH0 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English ferment, from Middle French ferment, from Latin fermentāre (“to leaven, ferment”), from fermentum (“substance causing fermentation”), possibly from contraction of *fervimentum, from fervēre. See also fervent.

145 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: ферме́нт (fermént) — substance causing fermentation
• Bulgarian: мая (maja) — substance causing fermentation
• Catalan: ferment — substance causing fermentation
• Dutch: gist — substance causing fermentation
• Finnish: hapate — substance causing fermentation
• Finnish: fermentti — substance causing fermentation
• Finnish: käyte — substance causing fermentation
• French: ferment — substance causing fermentation
• Galician: fermento — substance causing fermentation
• German: Gärmittel — substance causing fermentation
• Irish: gabháil — substance causing fermentation
• Italian: fermento — substance causing fermentation
• Korean: 발효소 (balhyoso) — substance causing fermentation
• Latin: fermentum — substance causing fermentation
• Macedonian: маја (maja) — substance causing fermentation
• Macedonian: ферме́нт (fermént) — substance causing fermentation
• Portuguese: fermento — substance causing fermentation
• Romanian: ferment — substance causing fermentation
• Romanian: enzimă — substance causing fermentation
• Russian: ферме́нт (fermént) — substance causing fermentation
• Spanish: fermento — substance causing fermentation
• Swedish: jäsningsämne — substance causing fermentation
• Swedish: jäsämne — substance causing fermentation
• Welsh: eples — substance causing fermentation
• Bulgarian: ферментация (fermentacija) — state of agitation
• Bulgarian: кипене (kipene) — state of agitation
• Catalan: ferment — state of agitation
• Czech: kvas — state of agitation
• Finnish: kuohunta — state of agitation
• Finnish: käymistila — state of agitation
• Irish: corraíl — state of agitation
• Irish: suaitheadh — state of agitation
• Irish: rírá — state of agitation
• Macedonian: превирање (previranje) — state of agitation
• Russian: возбужде́ние (vozbuždénije) — state of agitation
• Russian: волне́ние (volnénije) — state of agitation
• Spanish: fermento — state of agitation
• Welsh: achor — state of agitation
• Finnish: käymistila — gentle internal movement
• Finnish: käyminen — gentle internal movement
• Finnish: katalyytti — catalyst
• French: ferment — catalyst
• Spanish: fermento — catalyst
• Albanian: thar — to react using fermentation
• Albanian: ngrydh — to react using fermentation
• Arabic: خَمَرَ (ḵamara) — to react using fermentation
• Armenian: խմորել (xmorel) — to react using fermentation
• Basque: hartzitu — to react using fermentation
• Bulgarian: ферменти́рам (fermentíram) — to react using fermentation
• Bulgarian: кипя (kipja) — to react using fermentation
• Burmese: အချဉ်ဖောက် (a.hkyanyhpauk) — to react using fermentation
• Catalan: fermentar — to react using fermentation
• Chinese Mandarin: 發酵 /发酵 (fājiào) — to react using fermentation
• Czech: kvasit — to react using fermentation
• Danish: gære — to react using fermentation
• Danish: fermentere — to react using fermentation
• Dutch: gisten — to react using fermentation
• Esperanto: fermenti — to react using fermentation
• Estonian: käärima — to react using fermentation
• Finnish: käyttää — to react using fermentation
• Finnish: panna käymään — to react using fermentation
• French: fermenter — to react using fermentation
• Galician: fermentar — to react using fermentation
• Galician: cocer — to react using fermentation
• Georgian: ფერმენტირდება (permenṭirdeba) — to react using fermentation
• Georgian: აფერმენტირებს (apermenṭirebs) — to react using fermentation
• German: gären — to react using fermentation
• Greek: αναβράζω (anavrázo) — to react using fermentation
• Greek: ζυμώνω (zymóno) — to react using fermentation
• Hawaiian: hū — to react using fermentation
• Hebrew: הִתְסִיס (hit'sís) — to react using fermentation
• Hungarian: erjeszt — to react using fermentation
• Icelandic: gerja — to react using fermentation
• Irish: coip — to react using fermentation
• Italian: fermentare — to react using fermentation
• Japanese: 発酵する (hakkō suru) — to react using fermentation
• Kapampangan: buru — to react using fermentation
• Khmer: ផ្អាប់ទុក (phʼap tuk) — to react using fermentation
• Khmer: ឡើង (laəng) — to react using fermentation
• Komi-Zyrian: шутны (šutny) — to react using fermentation
• Korean: 발효하다 (balhyohada) — to react using fermentation
• Latin: fermentō — to react using fermentation
• Latvian: rūgt — to react using fermentation
• Latvian: raudzēt — to react using fermentation
• Latvian: rudzināt — to react using fermentation
• Macedonian: врие (vrie) — to react using fermentation
• Macedonian: се кваси (se kvasi) — to react using fermentation
• Macedonian: ферменти́ра (fermentíra) — to react using fermentation
• Malayalam: പുളിപ്പിക്കുക (puḷippikkuka) — to react using fermentation
• Malayalam: പുളിക്കുക (puḷikkuka) — to react using fermentation
• Māori: māhī — to react using fermentation
• Māori: māī — to react using fermentation
• Māori: moī — to react using fermentation
• Māori: whakamoī — to react using fermentation
• Māori: mara — to react using fermentation
• Māori: whakamara — to react using fermentation
• Māori: toroī — to react using fermentation
• Māori: rēwena — to react using fermentation
• Mizo: ṭâwng — to react using fermentation
• Mongolian: хөөх (xööx) — to react using fermentation
• Mongolian: исэх (isex) — to react using fermentation
• Khiamniungan Naga: tháng — to react using fermentation
• Norwegian Bokmål: fermentere — to react using fermentation
• Norwegian Bokmål: gjære — to react using fermentation
• Polish: fermentować — to react using fermentation
• Polish: sfermentować — to react using fermentation
• Polish: kisić — to react using fermentation
• Polish: skisić — to react using fermentation
• Polish: ukisić — to react using fermentation
• Polish: zakisić — to react using fermentation
• Portuguese: fermentar — to react using fermentation
• Quechua: p'uchquy — to react using fermentation
• Romanian: fermenta — to react using fermentation
• Romanian: dospi — to react using fermentation
• Russian: броди́ть (brodítʹ) — to react using fermentation
• Russian: ферменти́ровать (fermentírovatʹ) — to react using fermentation
• Russian: ква́сить (kvásitʹ) — to react using fermentation
• Spanish: fermentar — to react using fermentation
• Swedish: jäsa — to react using fermentation
• Swedish: fermentera — to react using fermentation
• Tahitian: hōpue — to react using fermentation
• Thai: หมัก (màk) — to react using fermentation
• Turkish: mayalamak — to react using fermentation
• Udmurt: шутыны (šutyny) — to react using fermentation
• Ukrainian: броди́ти (brodýty) — to react using fermentation
• Ukrainian: ферментува́ти (fermentuváty) — to react using fermentation
• Vietnamese: lên men — to react using fermentation
• Volapük: färmäntön — to react using fermentation
• Welsh: eplesu — to react using fermentation
• Yiddish: יוירן (yoyrn) — to react using fermentation
• Yiddish: יערן (yern) — to react using fermentation
• Yiddish: גערן (gern) — to react using fermentation
• Yiddish: ייִרן (yirn) — to react using fermentation
• Yiddish: אירן (irn) — to react using fermentation
• Yoruba: bà — to react using fermentation
• Dutch: stoken — to cause unrest
• Finnish: lietsoa — to cause unrest
• Finnish: nostattaa — to cause unrest
• Finnish: kuohuttaa — to cause unrest
• Finnish: hämmentää — to cause unrest
• German: stören — to cause unrest
• German: anstacheln — to cause unrest
• Italian: fermentare — to cause unrest
• Russian: волнова́ть (volnovátʹ) — to cause unrest
• Russian: возбужда́ть (vozbuždátʹ) — to cause unrest