soy sauce

especially British, soy·a sauce

[soi saws]

noun

1. a salty, fermented sauce prepared from soybeans, used in East Asian cuisine.

soy sauce

/ sɔɪ /

noun

1. Also called: soya sauce. a salty dark brown sauce made from fermented soya beans, used esp in Japanese and Chinese cookery

Word History and Origins

Origin of soy sauce¹

First recorded in 1785–95