Definition of "soi"

soi

noun
plural soi or sois
1. In Thailand, a side-street branching off a major street; an alley or lane.
  Quotations
  When a motorbike sped too fast down their little side street, [...] Daeng and Nat would be revisiting many ranting conversations they'd had about motorbikes treating this tiny soi like it was the highway.
  2019, The Mysterious Case of the Missing Tuk-Tuk, Zach J Brodsky, Brodsky Press, Chapter 2