soya

See also: søya and soþa

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch soja.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔɪ.ə/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔɪə
• Homophone: sawyer (some accents)

Noun

soya (uncountable)

1. (British) Alternative form of soy [from late 17th c.]

Derived terms

• soya bean
• soya sauce

Further reading

• soybean on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• soy protein on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Soay

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch soja, from Japanese そや (soya), topicalized form of そい (soi), itself the Kagoshima dialectal form of Japanese 醤油 (shōyu, “soy sauce”), from Chinese 醬油／酱油 (jiàngyóu).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsoja]
• Hyphenation: so‧ya

Noun

soya (first-person possessive soyaku, second-person possessive soyamu, third-person possessive soyanya)

1. soya

   Synonym: kedelai

Further reading

• “soya” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Japanese

Romanization

soya

1. Rōmaji transcription of そや

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈsoʝa/ [ˈso.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈsoʝa/ [ˈso.ʝa]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈsoʃa/ [ˈso.ʃa]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈsoʒa/ [ˈso.ʒa]

• Rhymes: -oʝa
• Syllabification: so‧ya

Noun

soya f (plural soyas)

1. (Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Philippines) Alternative form of soja

Derived terms

• salsa de soya
• suero de soya

 

Further reading

• “soya”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014