fermen

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈfɛr.mən]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈfər.mən]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈfeɾ.men]

fermen

1. third-person plural present indicative of fermar

From Dutch ferment, from Middle French ferment, from Latin fermentare (“to leaven, ferment”), from fermentum (“substance causing fermentation”), from fervere (“to boil, seethe”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈfermen]
• Hyphenation: fér‧mén

fermen (plural fermen-fermen)

1. (uncommon) ferment: something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation

   Synonym: ragi

• “fermen”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

From Old English feormian, possibly from Proto-West Germanic *furbēn.

• feermen, feormen, ferme

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛrmən/

fermen

1. To cleanse; to scour.

• English: farm (dialectal)

• “fermen, v.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman fermer; equivalent to ferme (“lease”) +‎ -en (infinitival suffix).

• ferme, fermyn

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛrmən/

fermen

1. To take on an office for a fixed fee.
2. To lease land for a fixed fee.

• English: farm
• Scots: ferm

• “fermen, v.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Borrowed from Old French fermer, from Latin firmō, firmāre; equivalent to ferme (“firm”) +‎ -en (infinitival suffix).

• ferme, fermye

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛrmən/

fermen

1. To make firm or strong.
2. To affirm; to confirm.

• affermen
• confermen

• English: firm
• Scots: firm

• “fermen, v.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.