Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: suurdeeg
- Amharic: እርሾ
- Arabic: leaven
- Azerbaijani: закваска
- Bashkir: әсетке
- Belarusian: закваска
- Bulgarian: мая
- Bengali: খামির
- Bosnian: leaven
- Catalan: llevat
- Cebuano: igpapatubo
- Czech: kvásek
- Welsh: surdoes
- Danish: surdej
- German: Sauerteig
- Greek: προζύμι
- Esperanto: fermentajxo
- Spanish: levadura
- Estonian: juuretist
- Basque: altchagarri
- Persian: خمیر مایه
- Finnish: hapate
- French: levain
- Irish: leaven
- Scottish Gaelic: leaven
- Galician: fermento
- Gujarati: leaven
- Hebrew: לוון
- Hindi: खमीर
- Croatian: закваска
- Haitian: ledven
- Hungarian: kovász
- Armenian: թթխմոր
- Indonesian: ragi
- Icelandic: súrdeig
- Italian: lievito
- Japanese: 種
- Javanese: leaven
- Georgian: შედედებული
- Kazakh: ашытқы
- Khmer: ដំបែ
- Kannada: ಹುದುಗು
- Korean: 누룩
- Kyrgyz: закваска
- Latin: fermentum
- Luxembourgish: Sauerteig
- Lao: ແປ້
- Lithuanian: raugas
- Latvian: raugam
- Malagasy: masirasira
- Mari: ру
- Maori: rewena
- Macedonian: квас
- Malayalam: പുളിച്ച.
- Mongolian: leaven
- Marathi: यीस्ट
- Hill Mari: руш
- Malay: ragi
- Maltese: ħmira
- Burmese: တဆေး
- Nepali: खमिर
- Dutch: zuurdesem
- Norwegian: surdeig
- Punjabi: ਖਮੀਰ
- Papiamento: zürdeg
- Polish: zaczyn
- Portuguese: fermento
- Romanian: aluat
- Russian: закваска
- Sinhalese: මුහුන්
- Slovak: kvas
- Slovenian: kvas,
- Albanian: maja
- Serbian: закваска
- Sundanese: leaven
- Swedish: surdeg
- Swahili: chachu
- Tamil: கமீர்
- Telugu: leaven
- Tajik: закваска
- Thai: leaven
- Tagalog: lebadura
- Turkish: mayalamak
- Tatar: закваска
- Udmurt: шӧмын
- Ukrainian: закваска
- Urdu: خمیر
- Uzbek: xamirturush
- Vietnamese: men
- Xhosa: leaven
- Yiddish: זויערטייג
- Chinese: 酵
Synonyms, close and similar words for leaven
- starter culture
- ferment
- sourdough
- barm
- yeast