tempura

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Japanese 天麩羅 (tenpura), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Portuguese têmpora (“Ember days”). When Portuguese explorers (mostly Jesuit missionaries) arrived in Japan, they abstained from eating beef, pork and poultry during the Ember days. 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.

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛmpʊrə/

Noun

tempura (countable and uncountable, plural tempuras)

1. A dish made by deep-frying vegetables, seafood, or other foods in a light batter.

Synonyms

• tenpura

Translations

tempura

• Arabic: تِيمْبُورَا f (tīmbūrā)
• Belarusian: тэ́мпура f (témpura)
• Bulgarian: те́мпура f (témpura)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 天婦羅／天妇罗 (tin¹ fu⁵ lo⁴), 天妇罗 (tin¹ fu⁵ lo⁴), 天麩羅／天麸罗 (tin¹ fu¹ lo⁴), 天麸罗 (tin¹ fu¹ lo⁴)

  Hakka: ^{(please verify)} 天婦羅／天妇罗, ^{(please verify)} 天妇罗 (thên-pu-lá)

  Mandarin: 天婦羅／天妇罗 (zh) (tiānfùluó), 天妇罗 (zh) (tiānfùluó), 天麩羅／天麸罗 (tiānfūluó), 天麸罗 (tiānfūluó), 甜不辣 (tiánbúlà), 天富羅／天富罗 (tiānfùluó), 天富罗 (tiānfùluó)

  Min Nan: ^{(please verify)} 天麩羅／天麸罗, ^{(please verify)} 天麸罗 (thian35 pu55 lah3)

• Finnish: tempura
• French: tempura (fr) m
• German: Tempura n
• Greek: τεμπούρα (tempoúra)
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• Hebrew: טַמְפּוּרָה (he) f (tempura)
• Italian:
• Japanese: 天ぷら (てんぷら, tenpura), 天麩羅 (てんぷら, tenpura), テンプラ (tenpura)
• Korean: 덴푸라 (ko), 뎀뿌라
• Malay: tempura
• Marathi: तेम्पुरा f (tempurā)
• Persian: تمپورا (tempurâ)
• Polish: tempura (pl) f
• Portuguese: tempurá m
• Russian: тэ́мпура (ru) f (tɛ́mpura), те́мпура f (tɛ́mpura)
• Thai: เท็มปุระ (tem-bpù-rá)
• Ukrainian: те́мпура f (témpura)
• Vietnamese: tempura (vi), thiên phu la, thiên phụ la (phonetic respellings)

See also

• fritter

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Spanish

Noun

tempura f (plural tempuras)

1. tempura