Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread: in the first day there shall be no leaven in your houses; whosoever shall eat any thing leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall perish out of Israel.
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Leaven
//ˈlɛv.ən//
Synonyms for "leaven" (117 found)
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Related words (58)
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2 entriesrelated to
12 entriesTranslations
105 translations across 54 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ζύμη noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
Arabic
1 entries- خَمِيرَة noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
Armenian
1 entries- թթխմոր noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- maya noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
Bulgarian
1 entries- набухвател noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
Catalan
1 entries- llevat noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- ھەوێن noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 酵母 noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
- 麵肥 /面肥 noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
- 膨鬆 /膨松 verb (to cause to rise by fermentation)
Classical Nahuatl
1 entries- xocotextli noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
Cornish
1 entries- gwel noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
Dutch
1 entries- rijsmiddel noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
Esperanto
1 entries- fermentilo noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
Finnish
4 entries- nostatusaine noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
- kohottaa verb (to cause to rise by fermentation)
- nostattaa verb (to add leavening)
- nostattaa verb (to cause to rise by fermentation)
French
4 entries- ferment noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
- levain noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
- faire fermenter verb (to cause to rise by fermentation)
- faire lever verb (to cause to rise by fermentation)
Friulian
1 entries- levan noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
Galician
4 entries- fermento noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
- isco noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
- lévedo noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
- levedar verb (to cause to rise by fermentation)
Georgian
1 entries- საფუარი noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
German
3 entries- Ferment noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
- Treibmittel noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
- Triebmittel noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌱𐌴𐌹𐍃𐍄 noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
Gurani
1 entries- ئامیان noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
Hawaiian
1 entries- hū verb (to cause to rise by fermentation)
Hebrew
2 entries- שאור noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
- הֶחְמִיץ verb (to cause to rise by fermentation)
Hungarian
4 entries- kovász noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
- élesztő noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
- erjeszt verb (to cause to rise by fermentation)
- keleszt verb (to cause to rise by fermentation)
Ido
2 entries- hefo noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
- hefizar verb (to add leavening)
Irish
1 entries- gabháil noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
Italian
3 entries- lievito noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
- lievitare verb (to add leavening)
- lievitare verb (to cause to rise by fermentation)
Japanese
2 entries- パン種 noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
- 膨張剤 noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
Latvian
1 entries- rauga noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
Lithuanian
1 entries- raugas noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
Malay
1 entries- bahan penaik noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
Manx
3 entries- jastee noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
- jiastyn noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
- soorid noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
Middle English
2 entries- levayn noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
- sour dogh noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
Māori
2 entries- rēwena noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
- rēwena verb (to cause to rise by fermentation)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- havên noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
Norwegian
2 entries- hevingsmiddel noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
- heve verb (to cause to rise by fermentation)
Occitan
1 entries- levam noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
Old Church Slavonic
1 entries- квасъ noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- خامور noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
- مایه noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
Persian
3 entries- برازده noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
- مایه noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
- وراوردن verb (to cause to rise by fermentation)
Polish
3 entries- drożdże noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
- zaczyn noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
- zakwas noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
Portuguese
2 entries- fermento noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
- levedura noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
Romanian
4 entries- covoseală noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
- maia noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
- plămadă noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
- plămădeală noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
Romansch
4 entries- alvamaint noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
- alvo noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
- lavamaint noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
- levon noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
Russian
2 entries- заква́ска noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
- разрыхли́тель noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
Sicilian
1 entries- criscenti noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
Spanish
4 entries- levadura noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
- polvos de hornear noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
- leudar verb (to add leavening)
- leudar verb (to cause to rise by fermentation)
Swahili
2 entries- chachu noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
- hamira noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
Tagalog
1 entries- lebadura noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
Tahitian
1 entries- hōpue verb (to cause to rise by fermentation)
Turkish
1 entries- maya noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
Venetan
1 entries- levà noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
Walloon
1 entries- lewin noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
Welsh
3 entries- eples noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
- lefain noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
- surdoes noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
Zazaki
3 entries- ameyn noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
- amên (diq) noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
- amîn noun (any agent used to make dough rise)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
Seven days there shall not be found any leaven in your houses: he that shall eat leavened bread, his soul shall perish out of the assembly of Israel, whether he be a stranger or born in the land.
Source: tatoeba (8018726)
My first experiments were failures and I was discouraged because, instead of saving food, I was wasting it, and yet I was unwilling to acknowledge myself defeated by the little square of leaven that came to me so attractively done up in tinfoil.
Source: tatoeba (11674065)
Both Decadence and Aestheticism, as intellectual movements, have fallen into the nadir of oblivion, and the dust lies heavy upon them, but they left a little leaven to lighten the heavy inertness of correct and academic literature; and now Symbolism, a greater movement than either, is in the ascendant, giving another turn to the wheel, and to all who think deeply about such matters it seems as though Symbolist literature is to be the literature of the future.
Source: tatoeba (11704012)
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