soy

Significado (English)
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- A common East Asian liquid sauce, made by subjecting boiled beans to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water.
- Soybeans, or the protein derived from them.
Concepts
Synonyms
soybean plant
soja bean
Glycine max
soy-bean
elementary knowledge of
grounding in
first coat of plastering
greater bean
Frecuencia
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/sɔɪ/
Etymology (English)
Etymology tree Chinese 醬油/酱油 (jiàngyóu)bor. Japanese 醤油bor. Dutch sojabor. English soy 1670s; borrowed from Dutch soja, from Satsuma Japanese 醤油 (そい, soi), variant of the standard Japanese 醤油 (しょうゆ, shōyu). Doublet of shoyu.
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