soya

• HYPHEN: soy=a

CIDE DICTIONARY

soya, n. [Chinese shōyū.].

•  A Chinese and Japanese liquid sauce for fish, etc., made by subjecting boiled beans (esp. soybeans), or beans and meal, to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water.  [1913 Webster]
•  The soybean.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

soya, n. (in full soya bean)
1 a a leguminous plant, Glycine soja, orig. of SE Asia, cultivated for the edible oil and flour it yields, and used as a replacement for animal protein in certain foods. b the seed of this.
2 (also soya sauce) = SOY 1.

Etymology

Du. soja f. Malay soi (as SOY)