soja

• IPA^(key): /ˈsəʊdʒə/

soja (uncountable)

1. Dated form of soya.

• “soja”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• AOJs, Jaos, Jaso

• soia

Borrowed from Spanish soja.

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• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

soja f (plural soges)

1. soy
2. soy sauce

• soja borda

• “soja”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies , 2007 April

Borrowed from Japanese そや (soya), topicalized form of そい (soi), itself the Kagoshima dialectal form of Japanese 醤油 (shōyu, “soy sauce”), from Chinese 醬油 / 酱油.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsoː.jaː/

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• Hyphenation: so‧ja

soja f (plural soja's, diminutive sojaatje n)

1. soy

• Afrikaans: soja
• → Arabic: صُويَا (ṣūyā)
• → Catalan: soia, soja
• → English: soy, soya
• → Finnish: soija
• → French: soja
• → German: Soja
• → Greek: σόγια (sógia)
• → Hungarian: szója
• → Malay: soya
  • Indonesian: soya
• → Portuguese: soja
• → Russian: со́я (sója)
• → Slovene: soja
• → Spanish: soja

French Wikipedia has an article on:

soja

Wikipedia ^fr

• soya (Canada)

• IPA^(key): /sɔ.ʒa/

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soja m (plural sojas)

1. soy (sauce)
2. soy (plant)

• sauce de soja

• “soja”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

From English soldier and Zarma sooje.

• IPA^(key): /sóː.(d)ʒà/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key):

sōjà m (plural sōjojī, possessed form sōjàn)

1. soldier
2. army

From Pre-modern Malay soja, from Cantonese 作揖 (zok³ jap¹, “to bow”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈsod͡ʒa/
• Rhymes: -od͡ʒa
• Syllabification: so‧ja

soja

1. to give homage, to bow

   Synonyms: tunduk, hormat

• “soja” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔjə/
• Homophone: soje

soja

1. feminine singular of sujo

From English soldier.

soja

1. soldier
   • 2024, “You go see skeletons and pesin wey dem don kill three months ago - Deadly border for South Africa”, in BBC News Pidgin‎:

     Occasionally, John tell us, sojas arrive and make arrests. But advance warning dey usually dey, e add, and e dey easy but risky to melt into di bush.

     Occasionally, John tells us, soldiers arrive and make arrests. But there is usually advance warning, he adds, and it is easy but risky to melt into the bush.

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

soja

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Borrowed from Spanish soya.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔ.ja/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔja
• Syllabification: so‧ja
• Homophone: Soja

soja f (related adjective sojowy)

1. (uncountable) soy, soybean (plant)
2. (countable) soy (soy beans)

• soja in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• soja in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

soja

Wikipedia ^pt

Borrowed from Dutch soja, borrowed from Japanese そや, from 醤油, borrowed from Chinese 醬油 / 酱油. Doublet of shoyu.

• Rhymes: -ɔʒɐ
• Hyphenation: so‧ja

soja f (plural sojas)

1. soybean; soy (Glycine max, a legume plant)
2. soybean; soy (seeds of the soybean plant)

• → Hunsrik: Soja

• “soja”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “soja”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• IPA^(key): /sǒːja/
• Hyphenation: so‧ja

sója f (Cyrillic spelling со́ја)

1. soya, soybean
2. soy (soy sauce)

• soya (Mexico, Central America, Caribbean, Andes, Philippines)

Borrowed from Dutch soja; from the Satsuma dialectal Japanese そや (soya), which is the topicalized form of 醤油 (そい, soi) (cognate to standard Japanese 醤油 (しょうゆ, shōyu)), from Late Middle Japanese 醤油 (しやうゆ, shiyauyu), orthographic borrowing from Middle Chinese 醬油 (tsjàng-yuw), from 醬 (tsjang^H, “bean paste”) + 油 (“oil”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsoxa/
• Rhymes: -oxa
• Syllabification: so‧ja

soja f (plural sojas)

1. (Spain, Rioplatense, Paraguay, Equatorial Guinea) alternative form of soya
2. soya, soybean
3. soy (soy sauce)

   Synonyms: salsa de soya, salsa de soja, sillao

• “soja”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy , 2024 December 10

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

soja

Wikipedia ^sv

soja c

1. soy sauce

   Synonym: sojasås

   Du Nisse, kan du skicka sojan?

   Hey Nisse, could you pass the soy sauce?

   doppa sushi i soja

   dip sushi in soy sauce

2. soybean (plant and seed)

   Synonym: sojaböna

• soja in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• soja in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• soja in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔja/
• Rhymes: -ɔja
• Hyphenation: so‧ja
• Syllabification: so‧ja

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sòja.

soja f

1. (zoology) Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius)

   Synonyms: kabija, škrěkawa

Borrowed from German Soja.

soja f

1. (botany) soybean (Glycine max)

• “soja” in Soblex

Borrowed from Russian со́я (sója).

soja

1. soya, soy

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “соя”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ ‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika