soy

English

Alternative forms

• soya

Etymology

Probably via Dutch soja, from a Japanese variant of 醤油 (しょうゆ, shōyu), from Chinese 醬油 (jiàngyóu), from 醬 ‘bean paste’ + 油 ‘oil’.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /sɔɪ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔɪ

Noun

soy (uncountable)

1. A Chinese and Japanese liquid sauce for fish, made by subjecting boiled beans to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water. US preference is the term soy sauce.

   I like a little soy with my rice.

   • 1902 — Annie R. Gregory, Woman's Favorite Cookbook, p381

     Pour in four tablespoonfuls of sherry and four tablespoonfuls of soy, as much vinegar as the jar will hold, and cover closely until wanted.

2. Soybeans. Often used attributively.

   These candles are made from soy.

   The soy crop is looking good this year.

Derived terms

• soy bean
• soy milk
• soy sauce

Translations

soy sauce — see soy sauce

soy beans

• Arabic: صويا (ar) (Suuya) f
• Catalan: soia (ca) f, soja (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大豆 (cmn) (dàdòu)

• Finnish: soija (fi), soijapapu (fi)
• French: soja (fr) f
• German: Soja (de) n, Sojabohnen f pl

• Greek: σόγια (el) (sóya) n 
• Hungarian: szója (hu)
• Japanese: 大豆 (ja) (だいず, daizu)
• Portuguese: soja (pt) f
• Russian: соя (ru) (sója) f , соевые бобы (ru) (sójevyje bobý) m pl 
• Slovene: soja (sl) pl
• Spanish: soja (es) f

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Middle French

Pronoun

soy

1. oneself

Descendants

• French: soi

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Spanish

Verb

soy (infinitive ser)

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of ser.

   Yo no soy marinero, soy capitán.

   I am not a sailor, I am a captain.

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Tocharian B

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *suHyús. Cognate with Tocharian A se, Old Armenian ուստր (ustr) and Ancient Greek υἱύς (huiús). Confer also the diminituve form soṃśke reflecting the alternative Proto-Indo-European root for "son".

Noun

soy m

1. son

Related terms

• soṃśke

See also

• tkācer
• pācer
• mācer
• procer
• ṣer

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Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈso·ɪ/

Noun

soy

1. kin
2. sort