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English
Etymology
From Middle English ferment, from Middle French ferment, from Latin fermentāre (“to leaven, ferment”), from fermentum (“substance causing fermentation”), from fervēre (“to boil, seethe”). See also fervent.
Pronunciation
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.
2020 November 18, Drachinifel, 6:21 from the start, in The Salvage of Pearl Harbor Pt 2 - Up She Rises!, archived from the original on 22 October 2022:The cleanup job would turn out to be possibly second only to body-recovery duty in terms of being a job that nobody wanted to get assigned to. Imagine, for a moment, a thick soup of oil, paper, ink, clothing, raw meat and other fresh provisions, and worse, that had all been left to collect together in semi-warm water, all enclosed in a large metal container that had then been subjected to heating by first fire and then repeated warm Hawaiian days, and then left to ferment for over a month, and then with most of the water drained away and all the remaining solid and semi-liquid mass collecting together in pools and heaps across multiple decks, still in a relatively-enclosed environment.
- To stir up, agitate, cause unrest or excitement in.
1726, James Thomson, “Winter”, in The Seasons, London: A Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, , published 1768, →OCLC, page 165, lines 10–14:Pleas'd have I wander'd thro' your rough domain; / Trod the pure virgin-ſnows, myſelf as pure; / Heard the winds roar, and the big torrent burſt; / Or ſeen the deep fermenting tempeſt brew'd, / In the grim evening ſky.
Derived terms
Translations
to react using fermentation
- Albanian: thar (sq), ngrydh
- Arabic: خَمَرَ (ar) (ḵamara)
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Basque: hartzitu
- Bulgarian: ферменти́рам (bg) (fermentíram), кипя (bg) (kipja)
- Burmese: အချဉ်ဖောက် (my) (a.hkyanyhpauk)
- Catalan: fermentar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 發酵/发酵 (zh) (fājiào)
- Czech: kvasit (cs)
- Danish: gære, fermentere
- Dutch: gisten (nl)
- Esperanto: fermenti
- Estonian: käärima
- Finnish: käyttää (fi), panna käymään
- Galician: fermentar (gl), cocer (gl)
- Georgian: ფერმენტირდება (permenṭirdeba), აფერმენტირებს (apermenṭirebs)
- German: gären (de)
- Greek: αναβράζω (el) (anavrázo), ζυμώνω (el) (zymóno)
- Hungarian: erjeszt (hu)
- Icelandic: gerja
- Irish: coip
- Italian: fermentare (it)
- Japanese: please add this translation if you can
- Kapampangan: buru
- Khmer: ផ្អាប់ទុក (phʼap tuk), ឡើង (km) (laəng) (of dough)
- Korean: 발효하다 (ko) (balhyohada)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: fermentō
- Latvian: rūgt (lv), raudzēt (lv), rudzināt
- Lü: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: врие (vrie), се кваси (se kvasi), ферменти́ра (fermentíra)
- Malayalam: പുളിപ്പിക്കുക (ml) (puḷippikkuka) (transitive), പുളിക്കുക (ml) (puḷikkuka) (intransitive)
- Maori: māhī, toroī, rēwena, whakamoī
- Mongolian: хөөх (mn) (xööx), исэх (mn) (isex)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: fermentere, gjære
- Polish: fermentować (pl) impf, sfermentować (pl) pf, kisić (pl) impf, skisić pf, ukisić pf, zakisić pf
- Portuguese: fermentar (pt)
- Quechua: p'uchquy
- Romanian: fermenta (ro), dospi (ro)
- Russian: броди́ть (ru) (brodítʹ) (intransitive), ферменти́ровать (ru) (fermentírovatʹ), ква́сить (ru) (kvásitʹ) (transitive)
- Spanish: fermentar (es)
- Swedish: jäsa (sv), fermentera (sv)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: please add this translation if you can
- Vietnamese: lên men (vi)
- Volapük: färmäntön (vo)
- Welsh: eplesu (cy)
- Yiddish: יוירן (yoyrn), יערן (yern), גערן (gern), ייִרן (yirn), אירן (irn)
- Yoruba: bà
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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 gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
- A catalyst.
Translations
substance causing fermentation
See also
References
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Verb
ferment
- third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of fermer
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fermentum.
Pronunciation
Noun
ferment m inan
- ferment, unrest
- (archaic, biochemistry) enzyme
- Synonym: enzym
Declension
Related terms
Further reading
- ferment in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- ferment in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French ferment, from Latin fermentum.
Noun
ferment m (plural fermenți)
- ferment
Declension