tempura

• tenpura

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”).^[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)

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

   Hypernym: fritter

   • 2024 October 3, Jordan Valinsky, “McDonald’s is finally selling the Chicken Big Mac in the US”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The Chicken Big Mac is similar to its beefy sibling; however, it replaces the two burgers with two tempura chicken patties.

Possibly from Spanish tempura (“breaded or battered like (Japanese) tempura”), from Japanese 天麩羅(てんぷら) (tenpura), from Portuguese, from Latin.

• Hyphenation: tem‧pu‧ra
• IPA^(key): /temˈpuɾa/ [t̪emˈpu.ɾ̪ɐ]

tempura

1. (colloquial) kikiam (deep fried elongated beancurd roll over meat (usually ground pork) and vegetables, served as a streetfood snack)

From Japanese 天麩羅 (てんぷら, tenpura).

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

tempura

1. tempura

• “tempura”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

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: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of 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 Polish dictionaries at PWN

• tempurá (Brazil)

• 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 f (plural tempuras)

1. tempura

tempura m or f (masculine and feminine plural tempuras)

1. (said of food) breaded or battered like tempura

• “tempura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

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

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /temˈpuɾa/ [t̪ɛmˈpuː.ɾɐ]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: tem‧pu‧ra

tempura (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒᜋ᜔ᜉᜓᜇ)

1. tempura (Japanese dish)

• “tempura”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018