"天麩羅" meaning in Japanese

See 天麩羅 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [tẽ̞mpɯ̟ɾa̠] Forms: 天麩羅 [canonical] (ruby: (てん), (), ()), 天麩羅 [canonical] (ruby: 天麩羅(テンプラ)), tenpura [romanization]
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese, ultimately from Latin. Different dictionaries link two different original terms: * Portuguese tempero (“seasoning”) or tempera (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 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 Portuguese têmpora (IPA: /ˈtẽ.pu.ɾɐ/) with such food. The kanji are ateji (当て字). Etymology templates: {{bor+|ja|pt|-|sort=てんぷら}} Borrowed from Portuguese, {{der|ja|la|-|sort=てんぷら}} Latin, {{cog|pt|tempero||seasoning}} Portuguese tempero (“seasoning”), {{cog|la|temperare||to mix, to temper}} Latin temperare (“to mix, to temper”), {{cog|pt|têmpora||Ember days}} Portuguese têmpora (“Ember days”), {{cog|la|tempora}} Latin tempora, {{,}} ,, {{cog|pt|têmpora|pos=IPA: /ˈtẽ.pu.ɾɐ/}} Portuguese têmpora (IPA: /ˈtẽ.pu.ɾɐ/), {{sortkey|ja|天麩羅}} てんふら, {{ateji}} ateji (当て字) Head templates: {{ja-noun|てんぷら|テンプラ}} 天(てん)麩(ぷ)羅(ら) or 天麩羅(テンプラ) • (tenpura)
  1. tempura: a Japanese dish made from seafood, chicken, or vegetables dipped in batter and deep fried Wikipedia link: Daijirin, Daijisen, Kyōsuke Kindaichi, Tempura, ja:天ぷら, ja:松村明 Derived forms: 天丼: a tempura donburi (tendon), rice bowl, 海老天 (ebiten) (ruby: 海老(えび), (てん)) (english: shrimp tempura), 天むす (tenmusu) (ruby: (てん)), 天ぷら油: tempura oil (tenpura abura) (ruby: (てん), (あぶら)) Coordinate_terms: 揚げ物 (agemono) (ruby: (), (もの)) (english: deep-fried food)
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        "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
        "Japanese lemmas",
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        "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
        "Japanese nouns",
        "Japanese terms borrowed from Portuguese",
        "Japanese terms derived from Latin",
        "Japanese terms derived from Portuguese",
        "Japanese terms spelled with ateji",
        "Japanese terms spelled with first grade kanji",
        "Japanese terms spelled with hyōgai kanji",
        "Japanese terms spelled with secondary school kanji",
        "Japanese terms with 3 kanji",
        "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Japanese terms with audio pronunciation",
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        "ja:Foods"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "tempura: a Japanese dish made from seafood, chicken, or vegetables dipped in batter and deep fried"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "tempura",
          "tempura"
        ],
        [
          "batter",
          "batter"
        ],
        [
          "deep fried",
          "deep fried"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Daijirin",
        "Daijisen",
        "Kyōsuke Kindaichi",
        "Tempura",
        "ja:天ぷら",
        "ja:松村明"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "てんぷら"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[tẽ̞mpɯ̟ɾa̠]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "天麩羅"
}

Download raw JSONL data for 天麩羅 meaning in Japanese (6.3kB)

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  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
    "天麩羅"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "天麩羅",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-20 using wiktextract (3dadd05 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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