"tempura" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈtɛmpʊɹə/ [UK], /tɛmˈpu.ɹə/ [US], /tɛmˈpɚ.ə/ [US] Forms: tempuras [plural], tenpura [alternative]
Rhymes: -ʊəɹə Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 天(てん)麩(ぷ)羅(ら) (tenpura), from Portuguese, ultimately from Latin. Different dictionaries link two different original terms: * Portuguese tempero (“seasoning”) or tempera (“he/she/it seasons; season!”), third-person present singular or imperative tense of temperar (“to season, to temper”), from Latin temperare (“to mix, to temper”). * Portuguese têmpora (“Ember days”), from Latin tempora, plural of tempus (“time; period”). When Portuguese explorers (mostly Jesuit missionaries) arrived in Japan, they abstained from eating beef, pork, and poultry during the Ember days, a Catholic series of holidays. Instead, they ate fried vegetables and fish. This was the first contact of the Japanese with fried food, and since then they began associating the Portuguese word têmpora (which they pronounced tenpura) with such food. Etymology templates: {{bor+|en|ja|-}} Borrowed from Japanese, {{ja-r|天%麩%羅|てん%ぷ%ら}} 天(てん)麩(ぷ)羅(ら) (tenpura), {{der|en|pt|-}} Portuguese, {{der|en|la|-}} Latin, {{der|en|pt|tempero||seasoning}} Portuguese tempero (“seasoning”), {{cog|la|temperare||to mix, to temper}} Latin temperare (“to mix, to temper”), {{der|en|pt|têmpora||Ember days}} Portuguese têmpora (“Ember days”), {{der|en|la|tempora}} Latin tempora, {{,}} , Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} tempura (countable and uncountable, plural tempuras)
  1. A Japanese dish made by deep-frying vegetables, seafood, or other foods in a light batter. Wikidata QID: Q328709 Wikipedia link: Daijirin, Daijisen, Ember days, Kyōsuke Kindaichi, ja:松村明 Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter): تِيمْبُورَا (tīmbūrā) [feminine] (Arabic), тэ́мпура (témpura) [feminine] (Belarusian), те́мпура (témpura) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 天婦羅 /天妇罗 (english: tin¹ fu⁵ lo⁴) (Chinese Cantonese), 天麩羅 /天麸罗 (english: tin¹ fu¹ lo⁴) (Chinese Cantonese), 天婦羅 /天妇罗 (tiānfùluó) (Chinese Mandarin), 天麩羅 /天麸罗 (tiānfūluó) (Chinese Mandarin), 甜不辣 (tiánbúlà) (Chinese Mandarin), 天富羅 /天富罗 (tiānfùluó) (Chinese Mandarin), tempuro (Esperanto), tempura (Finnish), tempura [feminine] (French), Tempura [neuter] (German), τεμπούρα (tempoúra) [feminine] (Greek), טַמְפּוּרָה (tampurá) [feminine] (Hebrew), तेंपुरा (teṅpurā) (Hindi), tempura [feminine, masculine] (Italian), 天ぷら (tenpura) (alt: てんぷら) (Japanese), 天麩羅 (tenpura) (alt: てんぷら) (Japanese), テンプラ (tenpura) (Japanese), 덴뿌라 (denppura) (Korean), 덴푸라 (denpura) (Korean), tempura (Malay), तेम्पुरा (tempurā) [feminine] (Marathi), तरुवा (taruwā) (Nepali), تمپورا (tempurâ) (Persian), tempura [feminine] (Polish), tempurá [Brazil, masculine] (Portuguese), tempura [Portugal, feminine] (Portuguese), тэ́мпура (tɛ́mpura) [feminine] (Russian), те́мпура (tɛ́mpura) [feminine] (Russian), tempura (Spanish), เท็มปุระ (tem-bpù-rá) (Thai), те́мпура (témpura) [feminine] (Ukrainian), tempura (Vietnamese), thiên phu la (note: phonetic respellings) (Vietnamese), thiên phụ la (Vietnamese)

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        "Terms with Greek translations",
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        "Terms with Thai translations",
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          "ref": "2024 October 3, Jordan Valinsky, “McDonald’s is finally selling the Chicken Big Mac in the US”, in CNN:",
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        "Daijirin",
        "Daijisen",
        "Ember days",
        "Kyōsuke Kindaichi",
        "ja:松村明"
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      "tags": [
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      "tags": [
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      "ipa": "/tɛmˈpɚ.ə/",
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        "US"
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "sense": "dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter",
      "tags": [
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    },
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      "sense": "dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter",
      "word": "天婦羅 /天妇罗"
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      "sense": "dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter",
      "word": "天麩羅 /天麸罗"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "tiānfùluó",
      "sense": "dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter",
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      "roman": "tiánbúlà",
      "sense": "dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter",
      "word": "甜不辣"
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      "sense": "dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter",
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      "sense": "dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter",
      "word": "tempuro"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter",
      "word": "tempura"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "tempura"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "Tempura"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "tempoúra",
      "sense": "dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "τεμπούρα"
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    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "tampurá",
      "sense": "dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "טַמְפּוּרָה"
    },
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      "code": "hi",
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      "roman": "teṅpurā",
      "sense": "dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter",
      "word": "तेंपुरा"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "tempura"
    },
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      "alt": "てんぷら",
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      "roman": "tenpura",
      "sense": "dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter",
      "word": "天ぷら"
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      "sense": "dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter",
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      "code": "ja",
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      "roman": "tenpura",
      "sense": "dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter",
      "word": "テンプラ"
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    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "denppura",
      "sense": "dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter",
      "word": "덴뿌라"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
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      "roman": "denpura",
      "sense": "dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter",
      "word": "덴푸라"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter",
      "word": "tempura"
    },
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      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "tempurā",
      "sense": "dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "तेम्पुरा"
    },
    {
      "code": "ne",
      "lang": "Nepali",
      "roman": "taruwā",
      "sense": "dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter",
      "word": "तरुवा"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "tempurâ",
      "sense": "dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter",
      "word": "تمپورا"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tempura"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter",
      "tags": [
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        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tempurá"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter",
      "tags": [
        "Portugal",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tempura"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tɛ́mpura",
      "sense": "dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "тэ́мпура"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tɛ́mpura",
      "sense": "dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "те́мпура"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter",
      "word": "tempura"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "tem-bpù-rá",
      "sense": "dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter",
      "word": "เท็มปุระ"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "témpura",
      "sense": "dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "те́мпура"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter",
      "word": "tempura"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "note": "phonetic respellings",
      "sense": "dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter",
      "word": "thiên phu la"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter",
      "word": "thiên phụ la"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tempura"
}

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