tempura

• tenpura

Borrowed from Japanese 天麩羅 (てんぷら, 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”).[1][2][3]
• 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.[3][4]

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛmpʊɹə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tɛmˈpu.ɹə/, /tɛmˈpɚ.ə/
• Rhymes: -ʊəɹə

tempura (countable and uncountable, plural tempuras)

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

   Hypernym: fritter

From Japanese 天麩羅 (てんぷら, tenpura).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtempurɑ/, [ˈt̪e̞mpurɑ]
• Rhymes: -empurɑ
• Syllabification^(key): tem‧pu‧ra

tempura

1. tempura

Borrowed from Japanese 天麩羅 (てんぷら, 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”).[1][2][3]
• 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.[3][4]

• IPA^(key): /təm.pu.ra/
• Hyphenation: têm‧pu‧ra

tempura

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

• “tempura” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from Japanese 天麩羅 (てんぷら, tenpura), from Portuguese, ultimately from Latin, cognate with either temperare or tempo, tempora. See above for more.

• IPA^(key): /temˈpu.ra/
• Rhymes: -ura
• Hyphenation: tem‧pù‧ra

tempura m or f (invariable)

1. tempura

   Hypernym: frittura

• permuta, premuta

Borrowed from Japanese 天麩羅 (てんぷら, tenpura), from Portuguese, from Latin.

• IPA^(key): /tɛmˈpu.ra/
• Rhymes: -ura
• Syllabification: tem‧pu‧ra

tempura f

1. tempura

• tempura in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• tempura in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• tempurá (Brazilian)

• Rhymes: -uɾɐ
• Hyphenation: tem‧pu‧ra

tempura f (plural tempuras)

1. European Portuguese standard form of tempurá.

Borrowed from Japanese 天麩羅 (てんぷら, tenpura), from Portuguese, ultimately from Latin. See above for more.

• IPA^(key): /temˈpuɾa/ [t̪ẽmˈpu.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: tem‧pu‧ra

tempura m or f (plural tempuras)

1. tempura

• “tempura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Borrowed from traditional Hepburn romaji of Japanese 天麩羅(てんぷら) (tenpura), from Portuguese, from Latin.

• Hyphenation: tem‧pu‧ra
• IPA^(key): /temˈpuɾa/, [tɛmˈpu.ɾɐ]

tempura

1. tempura (Japanese dish)

• “tempura”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018