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thin sauce made of fermented soy beans

see soy 1

a salty, fermented sauce much used on fish and other dishes in the Orient, prepared from soybeans. Also, soya sauce.

[1785-95]

soy sauce UK US noun [uncountable]

a dark brown sauce made from soya beans

Thesaurus: savoury sauces and vinegars_hyponym types of food or drink_hypernym

(also chiefly Brit. soya sauce) n. a sauce made with fermented soybeans, used in Chinese and Japanese cooking

noun [noncount]

: a brown sauce that is made from soybeans and used especially in Chinese and Japanese cooking — called also (Brit) soya sauce

soy sauce f94 [soy sauce soy sauces] [ˌsɔɪ ˈsɔːs] [ˌsɔɪ ˈsɔːs] (also ˌsoya ˈsauce) noun uncountable

a thin dark brown sauce that is made from ↑soya beans and has a salty taste, used in Chinese and Japanese cooking