天麩羅

See also: 天麸罗

Chinese

		phonetic
trad. (天麩羅)		天	麩	羅
simp. (天麸罗)		天	麸	罗

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 天麩羅(てんぷら) (tenpura).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tiānfūluó

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢ ㄈㄨ ㄌㄨㄛˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tin¹ fu¹ lo⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: tiānfūluó
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢ ㄈㄨ ㄌㄨㄛˊ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tianfuluo
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tianfuluó
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰjɛn⁵⁵ fu⁵⁵ lwɔ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: tin¹ fu¹ lo⁴
    • Yale: tīn fū lòh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tin¹ fu¹ lo⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: tin¹ fu¹ lo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiːn⁵⁵ fuː⁵⁵ lɔː²¹/

Noun

天麩羅

1. tempura

Synonyms

• 天婦羅／天妇罗 (tiānfùluó)
• 甜不辣 (tiánbùlà)
• 天富羅／天富罗 (tiānfùluó)

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Japanese

天麩羅 (tenpura): a plate of shrimp tempura.

Kanji in this term
天	麩	羅
てん Grade: 1	ふ > ぷ Hyōgaiji	ら Grade: S
on’yomi

Alternative spellings
天婦羅 天ぷら テンプラ てんぷら

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 the Portuguese word têmpora (which they pronounced tenpura) with such food.

The kanji are ateji (当て字), though the initial kanji 天 is typically still used in post-ateji writing.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) てんぷら [tèńpúrá] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [tẽ̞mpɯ̟ᵝɾa̠]

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Noun

天(てん)麩(ぷ)羅(ら) • (tenpura) 

1. tempura: a Japanese dish made from seafood, chicken, or vegetables dipped in batter and deep fried

Coordinate terms

Related terms →

• 揚(あ)げ物(もの) (agemono): deep-fried food

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 天(てん)丼(どん) (tendon): a tempura donburi or rice bowl
• 海老(えび)天(てん) (ebiten): shrimp tempura
• 天(てん)むす (tenmusu)
• 天(てん)ぷら油(あぶら) (tenpura abura): tempura oil

Descendants

Descendants of 天麩羅 in other languages

• Chinese: 天婦羅／天妇罗 (tiānfùluó), 甜不辣 (tiánbùlà), 天富羅／天富罗 (tiānfùluó)
• English: tempura
• Hebrew: טמפורה‎
• Italian: tempura

• Korean: 덴푸라 (denpura)
• Portuguese: tempurá
• Russian: тэ́мпура (tɛ́mpura), те́мпура (témpura)
• Spanish: tempura