English [ edit ] Alternative forms [ edit ] 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 ( Philippines ) toyo Hyponyms: tamari shoyu Translations [ edit ] 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 jau4-2 ) , 白油 ( bak6 jau4-2 ) , 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 [ edit ] 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 [ edit ] 
