Soy (Alejandra Guzman album)
WordNet
noun
(1) Most highly proteinaceous vegetable crop known
(2) Thin sauce made of fermented soy beans
(3) Erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers; extensively cultivated for food and forage and soil improvement but especially for its nutritious oil-rich seeds; native to Asia
(4) A source of oil; used for forage and soil improvement and as food
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Etymology
Probably via Dutch, from a Japanese variant of 醤油 (しょうゆ, shōyu), from Chinese 醬油 (jiàngyóu), from 醬 ‘bean paste’ + 油 ‘oil’.
Noun
- A Chinese and Japanese liquid sauce for fish, made by subjecting boiled beans to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water. US preference is the term soy sauce.
- I like a little soy with my rice.
- 1902 — Annie R. Gregory, Woman's Favorite Cookbook, p381
- Pour in four tablespoonfuls of sherry and four tablespoonfuls of soy, as much vinegar as the jar will hold, and cover closely until wanted.
- Soybeans. Often used attributively.
- These candles are made from soy.
- The soy crop is looking good this year.
Verb
- ; I am.
- Yo no soy marinero, soy capitán.
- I am not a sailor, I am a captain.
- Yo no soy marinero, soy capitán.
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Etymology
From . Cognate with Tocharian A , Old Armenian and Ancient Greek . Confer also the diminituve form reflecting the alternative PIE word for "son".