soy sauce

English

Alternative forms

soya sauce (British)

Noun

soy sauce (countable and uncountable, plural soy sauces)

A condiment sauce and ingredient, common in Asian cuisine, made from fermented soybeans, salt, and sometimes wheat.
Synonyms: soy, (Phillipines) toyo
Hyponyms: tamari, shoyu

Translations

a condiment and ingredient made from fermented soybeans

Arabic: صَلْصَةْ اَلصُّويَا‎ f (ṣalṣat aṣ-ṣūyā)
Bikol Central: tawyo
Bulgarian: соев сос m (soev sos)
Burmese: ပဲငံပြာရည် (my) (pai:ngamprarany), ကြာညို့ (my) (kra-nyui.)
Catalan: salsa de soia f, soia f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 豉油 (si⁶ jau⁴), 抽油 (cau¹ jau^4-2), 白油 (bak⁶ jau^4-2), 醬油, 酱油 (zoeng³ jau⁴)
Hakka: 豆油 (theu-yù)
Mandarin: 醬油／酱油 (zh) (jiàngyóu)
Min Nan: 豆油 (zh-min-nan) (tāu-iû), 豉油 (si⁷ iu⁵), 醬清, 酱清 (chiùⁿ-chheng), 醬油, 酱油 (chiùⁿ-iû)
Czech: sójová omáčka f
Danish: soja (da) c, sojasovs c, sojasauce c
Dutch: sojasaus (nl) f, ketjap (nl) m
Finnish: soija (fi), soijakastike (fi)
French: sauce de soja (fr) f, sauce soja (fr) f
German: Sojasoße (de) f
Greek: σάλτσα σόγιας f (sáltsa sógias)
Halkomelem: chólmelelh tl’álhem
Hebrew: רוטב סויה‎ (rotev soya)
Hungarian: szójaszósz (hu)
Indonesian: kecap (id)
Italian: salsa di soia (it) f
Japanese: 醤油 (ja) (しょうゆ, shōyu), 醬油 (ja) (しょうゆ, shōyu), しょうゆ (ja) (shōyu)
Jeju: 물장 (muljang), ᄀᆞᆫ장 (gawnjang), 장물 (jangmul), 국물장 (gungmuljang), 장 (jang)
Khmer: ទឹកស៊ីអ៊ីវ (tɨk s’iiv), តៅអ៊ីវ (tav ’iiv), សាអ៊ីវ (saa ’iiv), ស៊ីអ៊ីវ (sii ’iiv)
Kazakh: соя тұздығы (soä tūzdyğy), жаңйұ (jañiū)
Korean: 간장 (ko) (ganjang)
Lao: ເຕົ້າຈ້ຽວ (tao chiāu)
Macedonian: соја-сос m (soja-sos), соин сос m (soin sos)
Malay: kicap (ms)
Maltese: zalza tas-soja
Marathi: सोया सॉस m (soyā sŏs)
Marshallese: joiu
Mon: ဍာ်ဗစး
Polish: sos sojowy (pl) m
Portuguese: molho de soja (pt) m, shoyu (pt) m
Russian: со́евый со́ус (ru) m (sójevyj sóus)
Shan: ၵျႃႇၺူဝ်ႉ (kjàa nyô̰), ၵျႃႇၶျိၼ်း (kjàa khjín)
Slovene: sojina omaka f
Spanish: salsa de soja, salsa de soya, soja (es) f
Swedish: soja (sv) c, sojasås (sv) c
Tagalog: toyo (tl)
Thai: ซอสถั่วเหลือง (sót tùa lĕuang), ซีอิ๊ว (th) (sii-íu)
Tibetan: ཇང་ཡུའི (jang yu'i)
Turkish: soya sosu
Uyghur: جاڭيۇ‎ (jangyu)
Vietnamese: nước tương, xì dầu (vi), tàu vị yểu
White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
Zhuang: ciengqyouz

References

1897 Universal Dictionary of the English Language, Robert Hunter and Charles Morris, eds., v4 p4363 ["A sauce prepared in China and Japan from the seeds of Dolichos Soja, a kind of bean. It is eaten with fish, cold meat, &c." Here also is cited the use of soy and soy sauce in Pall Mall Gazette, Nov. 6, 1885.]

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