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soy sauce

soy sauce noun: a condiment sauce and ingredient, common in Asian cuisine, made from fermented soybeans, salt, and sometimes wheat.

soy sauce: a condiment sauce and ingredient, common in Asian cuisine, made from fermented soybeans, salt, and...
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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, toyo

soy sauce meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Tagalog and Arabic

soy sauce in Tamil

சோயா மொச்சைக்குழம்பு

soy sauce in Marathi

a condiment and ingredient made from fermented soybeans
सोया सॉस soyā sŏs

soy sauce in Tagalog

a condiment and ingredient made from fermented soybeans
toyo

soy sauce in Arabic

a condiment and ingredient made from fermented soybeans
صَلْصَةْ اَلصُّويَا ṣalṣat aṣ-ṣūyā
More languagesFewer languages
soy sauce in Malay
kicap, toyu
soy sauce in Indonesian
kecap
soy sauce in Thai
ซอสถั่วเหลือง sót tùa lĕuang, ซีอิ๊ว sii-íu
soy sauce in Vietnamese
nước tương, xì dầu, tàu vị yểu
soy sauce in Myanmar
ပဲငံပြာရည် pai:ngamprarany, ကြာညို့ kra-nyui.

Synonyms of soy sauce

Forms of soy sauce

pluralsoy sauces
alternative UKsoya sauce

Questions about soy sauce

What does soy sauce mean?
Soy sauce means a condiment sauce and ingredient, common in Asian cuisine, made from fermented soybeans, salt, and sometimes wheat.
What is soy sauce in Tamil?
Soy sauce in Tamil is சோயா மொச்சைக்குழம்பு. See Soy sauce meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is soy sauce?
Soy sauce is a noun.
What is the plural of soy sauce?
The plural of soy sauce is soy sauces.

Words near soy sauce in the dictionary

  1. soy milk makers
  2. soy milks
  3. soy nut
  4. soy nuts
  5. soy out
  6. soy sauce
  7. soy sauces
  8. soy yogurt
  9. soy yogurts
  10. soya
  11. soya bean

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Adapted from Wiktionary: soy sauce (page history and authors); soy sauce (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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