soja

See also: Soja, sója, and šoja

English

Noun

soja (uncountable)

1. Dated form of soya.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “soja”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Jaso

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Catalan

Alternative forms

• soia

Noun

soja f (plural soges)

1. soy
2. soy sauce

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Dutch

Etymology

From そや (soya), topicalized form of そい (soi), itself the Kagoshima dialectal form of Japanese 醤油 (shōyu, “soy sauce”).

Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: so‧ja

Noun

soja f (plural soja's, diminutive sojaatje n)

1. soy

Derived terms

Derived terms

• sojaboon
• sojamelk
• sojaolie
• sojasaus
• sojascheut

Descendants

• → Arabic: صُويَا f (ṣūyā)
• → Catalan: soia f, soja f
• → English: soy, soya
• → Finnish: soija, soija
• → French: soja
• → German: Soja n
• → Greek: σόγια n (sógia)
• → Hungarian: szója
• → Malay: soya
• → Portuguese: soja f
• → Russian: со́я f (sója)
• → Slovene: soja pl
• → Spanish: soja f

 

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔ.ʒa/

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Noun

soja m (plural sojas)

1. soy (sauce)
2. soy (plant)

Further reading

• “soja”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Neapolitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔjə/
• Homophone: soje

Adjective

soja

1. feminine singular of sujo

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔ.ja/

Noun

soja f

1. soy

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Portuguese

Noun

soja f (plural sojas)

1. soybean; soy (Glycine max, a legume plant)
2. soybean; soy (seeds of the soybean plant)

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sǒːja/
• Hyphenation: so‧ja

Noun

sója f (Cyrillic spelling со́ја)

1. soya, soybean
2. soy (soy sauce)

Declension

Declension of soja

	singular
nominative	soja
genitive	soje
dative	soji
accusative	soju
vocative	sojo
locative	soji
instrumental	sojom

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Spanish

Alternative forms

• soya

Etymology

From Dutch soja; from the Satsuma dialect そや soya [soja], which is the topicalized form of 醤油 (そい, soi) [soj] (cognate to the standard (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Japanese word 醤油 (しょうゆ, shōyu)); from Old to Middle Japanese 醤油 (しやうゆ, shiyauyu); from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Chinese 醬油 (tsjàng-yuw); from 醬 (t͡sɨɐŋ^H, “bean paste”) + 油 (“oil”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsoxa/ [ˈso.xa]

Noun

soja f (plural sojas)

1. soya, soybean
2. soy (soy sauce)

Synonyms

• (soy sauce): salsa de soya, salsa de soja, sillao

References

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

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Veps

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian со́я (sója).

Noun

soja

1. soya, soy

References

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “соя”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[1], Petrozavodsk: Periodika