Phrase guide

oyster sauce

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A rich viscid sauce made from oysters and brine, used in Chinese cooking.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Across languages

Translations

43 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Belarusian: вустрычны соўс (vustryčny sows) — sauce from oysters
  • Belarusian: вустрычная падліўка (vustryčnaja padliwka) — sauce from oysters
  • Burmese: ခရုဆီ (hka.ru.hci) — sauce from oysters
  • Chinese Cantonese: 蠔油 /蚝油 (hou4 jau4) — sauce from oysters
  • Eastern Min Chinese: 蠔油 /蚝油 (hò̤-iù) — sauce from oysters
  • Chinese: 蠔油 /蚝油 (ô-iû) — sauce from oysters
  • Chinese Mandarin: 蠔油 /蚝油 (háoyóu) — sauce from oysters
  • Dutch: oestersaus — sauce from oysters
  • Estonian: austrikaste — sauce from oysters
  • Finnish: osterikastike — sauce from oysters
  • French: sauce d'huître — sauce from oysters
  • German: Austernsauce — sauce from oysters
  • Hebrew: רוטב צדפות — sauce from oysters
  • Hungarian: osztrigaszósz — sauce from oysters
  • Hungarian: osztriga szósz — sauce from oysters
  • Indonesian: saus tiram — sauce from oysters
  • Italian: salsa di ostriche — sauce from oysters
  • Japanese: 牡蠣油 (kakiabura) — sauce from oysters
  • Japanese: オイスターソース (oisutā sōsu) — sauce from oysters
  • Javanese: saos tiram — sauce from oysters
  • Khmer: ទឹកប្រេងខ្យង (tɨk preeng khyɑɑng) — sauce from oysters
  • Korean: 굴소스 (gulsoseu) — sauce from oysters
  • Lao: ນ້ໍາມັນຫອຍ (nam man hǭi) — sauce from oysters
  • Lao: ຊອດໂອດເຕີ (sǭt ʼōt tœ̄) — sauce from oysters
  • Latvian: austeru mērce — sauce from oysters
  • Lithuanian: austrių padažas — sauce from oysters
  • Malay: sos tiram — sauce from oysters
  • Marathi: ऑय्स्टर सॉस (ŏysṭar sŏs) — sauce from oysters
  • Norwegian Bokmål: østerssaus — sauce from oysters
  • Persian: سس صدف چروک (sos-e sadaf čoruk) — sauce from oysters
  • Polish: sos ostrygowy — sauce from oysters
  • Portuguese: molho de ostra — sauce from oysters
  • Portuguese: molho de ostras — sauce from oysters
  • Romanian: sos de stridii — sauce from oysters
  • Russian: у́стричный со́ус (ústričnyj sóus) — sauce from oysters
  • Slovene: omáka iz ostríg — sauce from oysters
  • Spanish: salsa de ostras — sauce from oysters
  • Swedish: ostronsås — sauce from oysters
  • Thai: ซอสหอยนางรม (sɔ́ɔt-hɔ̌i-naang-rom) — sauce from oysters
  • Thai: น้ํามันหอย (nám-man-hɔ̌i) — sauce from oysters
  • Turkish: istiridye sosu — sauce from oysters
  • Ukrainian: устричний соус (ustryčnyj sous) — sauce from oysters
  • Vietnamese: dầu hàu — sauce from oysters