"oyster sauce" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: oyster sauces [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} oyster sauce (countable and uncountable, plural oyster sauces)
  1. A rich viscid sauce made from oysters and brine, used in Chinese cooking. Wikipedia link: oyster sauce Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Condiments, Sauces Translations (sauce from oysters): вустрычны соўс (vustryčny soŭs) [masculine] (Belarusian), вустрычная падліўка (vustryčnaja padliŭka) [feminine] (Belarusian), ခရုဆီ (hka.ru.hci) (Burmese), 蠔油 [Hokkien] (Chinese), 蚝油 (ô-iû) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 蠔油 (Chinese Cantonese), 蚝油 (hou⁴ jau⁴) (Chinese Cantonese), 蠔油 (Chinese Mandarin), 蚝油 (háoyóu) (Chinese Mandarin), oestersaus [feminine] (Dutch), 蠔油 (Eastern Min Chinese), 蚝油 (hò̤-iù) (Eastern Min Chinese), austrikaste (Estonian), osterikastike (Finnish), sauce d’huître [feminine] (French), Austernsauce [feminine] (German), רוטב צדפות (Hebrew), osztrigaszósz (Hungarian), osztriga szósz (Hungarian), saus tiram (Indonesian), salsa di ostriche (Italian), 牡蠣油 (kakiabura) (alt: かきあぶら) (Japanese), オイスターソース (oisutā sōsu) (Japanese), saos tiram (Javanese), ទឹកប្រេងខ្យង (tɨk preeng khyɑɑng) (Khmer), 굴 소스 (gul soseu) (Korean), ນ້ຳມັນຫອຍ (Lao), ຊອດໂອດເຕີ (sǭt ʼōt tœ̄) (Lao), austeru mērce [feminine] (Latvian), austrių padažas (Lithuanian), sos tiram (Malay), ऑय्स्टर सॉस (ŏysṭar sŏs) [masculine] (Marathi), østerssaus (Norwegian Bokmål), سس صدف چروک (sos-e sadaf čoruk) (Persian), sos ostrygowy (Polish), molho de ostra [masculine] (Portuguese), molho de ostras [masculine] (Portuguese), sos de stridii (Romanian), у́стричный со́ус (ústričnyj sóus) [masculine] (Russian), omáka iz ostríg (Slovene), salsa de ostras [feminine] (Spanish), ostronsås [common-gender] (Swedish), ซอสหอยนางรม (sɔ́ɔt-hɔ̌i-naang-rom) [formal] (Thai), น้ำมันหอย (nám-man-hɔ̌i) [informal] (Thai), istiridye sosu (Turkish), устричний соус (ustryčnyj sous) (Ukrainian), dầu hàu (Vietnamese)

Inflected forms

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          "roman": "sɔ́ɔt-hɔ̌i-naang-rom",
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          "word": "ซอสหอยนางรม"
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          "word": "istiridye sosu"
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          "roman": "ustryčnyj sous",
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          "sense": "sauce from oysters",
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      "roman": "sǭt ʼōt tœ̄",
      "sense": "sauce from oysters",
      "word": "ຊອດໂອດເຕີ"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "sauce from oysters",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "austeru mērce"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "sauce from oysters",
      "word": "austrių padažas"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "sauce from oysters",
      "word": "sos tiram"
    },
    {
      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "ŏysṭar sŏs",
      "sense": "sauce from oysters",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ऑय्स्टर सॉस"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "sauce from oysters",
      "word": "østerssaus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "sos-e sadaf čoruk",
      "sense": "sauce from oysters",
      "word": "سس صدف چروک"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "sauce from oysters",
      "word": "sos ostrygowy"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "sauce from oysters",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "molho de ostra"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "sauce from oysters",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "molho de ostras"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "sauce from oysters",
      "word": "sos de stridii"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ústričnyj sóus",
      "sense": "sauce from oysters",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "у́стричный со́ус"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "sauce from oysters",
      "word": "omáka iz ostríg"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "sauce from oysters",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "salsa de ostras"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "sauce from oysters",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "ostronsås"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "sɔ́ɔt-hɔ̌i-naang-rom",
      "sense": "sauce from oysters",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ],
      "word": "ซอสหอยนางรม"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "nám-man-hɔ̌i",
      "sense": "sauce from oysters",
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ],
      "word": "น้ำมันหอย"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "sauce from oysters",
      "word": "istiridye sosu"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "ustryčnyj sous",
      "sense": "sauce from oysters",
      "word": "устричний соус"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "sauce from oysters",
      "word": "dầu hàu"
    }
  ],
  "word": "oyster sauce"
}

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