soy sauce

English

Alternative forms

• soya sauce (British)

Noun

soy sauce (countable and uncountable, plural soy sauces)

1. A condiment sauce and ingredient, common in Asian cuisine, made from fermented soybeans, salt, and sometimes wheat.

   Synonyms: soy, (Philippines) toyo

   Hyponyms: tamari, shoyu

Translations

a condiment and ingredient made from fermented soybeans

• Arabic: صَلْصَةْ اَلصُّويَا f (ṣalṣat aṣ-ṣūyā)
• Baba Malay: tauyu
• Bikol Central: tawyo (bcl)
• 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)

  Hokkien: 豆油 (zh-min-nan) (tāu-iû), 醬清／酱清 (chiùⁿ-chheng), 醬油／酱油 (chiùⁿ-iû)

  Mandarin: 醬油／酱油 (zh) (jiàngyóu)

  Teochew: 豉油 (si⁷ iu⁵)

• 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
• Hawaiian: koiū
• Hebrew: רוטב סויה (rotev soya)
• Hungarian: szójaszósz (hu)
• Indonesian: kecap (id)
• Irish: anlann soighe m
• 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)
• Kazakh: соя тұздығы (soä tūzdyğy), жаңйұ (jañiū)
• Khmer: ទឹកស៊ីអ៊ីវ (tɨk s’iiv), តៅអ៊ីវ (tav ’iiv), សាអ៊ីវ (saa ’iiv), ស៊ីអ៊ីវ (sii ’iiv)
• Korean: 간장 (ko) (ganjang)
• Lao: ເຕົ້າຈ້ຽວ (tao chiāu)
• Lisu: ꓚꓬꓸ ꓬꓱꓼ (tʃɑ́ jø̱̀)
• Macanese: sutate, siao
• Macedonian: соја-сос m (soja-sos), соин сос m (soin sos)
• Malay: kicap (ms), tauyu (Malacca), toyu (ms) (Northern Peninsular)
• 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)
• Slovak: sójová omáčka f
• 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.]

Further reading

• soy sauce on Wikipedia.Wikipedia