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.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈsɔ.ʒə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈsɔ.d͡ʒa]

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soja f (plural soges)

1. soy
2. soy sauce

• soja borda

• “soja”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

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

• 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 [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

From English soldier and Zarma sooje.

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

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/ [ˈso.d͡ʒa]
• Rhymes: -od͡ʒa
• Syllabification: so‧ja

soja

1. to give homage, to bow

   Synonyms: tunduk, hormat

• “soja”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), 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^[1]:

     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.

Borrowed from Spanish soya.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔ.ja/

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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^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “soja”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)

Borrowed from Dutch soja, borrowed from Japanese そや, from 醤油, an orthographic borrowing 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 Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “soja”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “soja”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

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

sója f (Cyrillic spelling со́ја)

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

• soya (Mexico, Central America, Caribbean, Andes Mountains, 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/ [ˈso.xa]
• 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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

soja c

1. soy sauce

   Synonym: (less common) 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 [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “soja”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “soja”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

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

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sòja.

soja f

1. Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius)

   Synonyms: kabija, škrěkawa

Borrowed from German Soja.

soja f

1. soybean (Glycine max)

• “soja”, in Mudra corpus [Upper Sorbian–Czech dictionary] (in Czech), 2024–2026
• “soja” in Soblex

Borrowed from Russian со́я (sója).

soja

1. soya, soy

Inflection of soja (inflection type 6/kuva)
nominative sing.	soja
genitive sing.	sojan
partitive sing.	sojad
partitive plur.	—
	singular	plural
nominative	soja	—
accusative	sojan	—
genitive	sojan	—
partitive	sojad	—
essive-instructive	sojan	—
translative	sojaks	—
inessive	sojas	—
elative	sojaspäi	—
illative	sojaha	—
adessive	sojal	—
ablative	sojalpäi	—
allative	sojale	—
abessive	sojata	—
comitative	sojanke	—
prolative	sojadme	—
approximative I	sojanno	—
approximative II	sojannoks	—
egressive	sojannopäi	—
terminative I	sojahasai	—
terminative II	sojalesai	—
terminative III	sojassai	—
additive I	sojahapäi	—
additive II	sojalepäi	—

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “соя”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[4], Petrozavodsk: Periodika