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A Japanese dish made by deep-frying vegetables, seafood, or other foods in a light batter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fritter
vegetables and seafood dipped in batter and deep-fried
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: dish
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”). * 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.
Across languages
Translations
37 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
تِيمْبُورَا
(tīmbūrā)
— dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter
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Belarusian:
тэ́мпура
(témpura)
— dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter
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Bulgarian:
те́мпура
(témpura)
— dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter
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Chinese Cantonese:
天婦羅 /天妇罗
— dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter
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Chinese Cantonese:
天麩羅 /天麸罗
— dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter
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Chinese Mandarin:
天婦羅 /天妇罗
(tiānfùluó)
— dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter
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Chinese Mandarin:
天麩羅 /天麸罗
(tiānfūluó)
— dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter
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Chinese Mandarin:
甜不辣
(tiánbúlà)
— dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter
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Chinese Mandarin:
天富羅 /天富罗
(tiānfùluó)
— dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter
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Esperanto:
tempuro
— dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter
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Finnish:
tempura
— dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter
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French:
tempura
— dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter
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German:
Tempura
— dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter
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Greek:
τεμπούρα
(tempoúra)
— dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter
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Hebrew:
טַמְפּוּרָה
(tampurá)
— dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter
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Hindi:
तेंपुरा
(teṅpurā)
— dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter
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Italian:
tempura
— dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter
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Japanese:
天ぷら
(tenpura)
— dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter
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Japanese:
天麩羅
(tenpura)
— dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter
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Japanese:
テンプラ
(tenpura)
— dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter
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Korean:
덴뿌라
(denppura)
— dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter
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Korean:
덴푸라
(denpura)
— dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter
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Malay:
tempura
— dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter
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Marathi:
तेम्पुरा
(tempurā)
— dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter
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Nepali:
तरुवा
(taruwā)
— dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter
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Persian:
تمپورا
(tempurâ)
— dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter
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Polish:
tempura
— dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter
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Portuguese:
tempurá
— dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter
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Portuguese:
tempura
— dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter
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Russian:
тэ́мпура
(tɛ́mpura)
— dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter
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Russian:
те́мпура
(tɛ́mpura)
— dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter
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Spanish:
tempura
— dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter
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Thai:
เท็มปุระ
(tem-bpù-rá)
— dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter
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Ukrainian:
те́мпура
(témpura)
— dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter
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Vietnamese:
tempura
— dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter
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Vietnamese:
thiên phu la
— dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter
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Vietnamese:
thiên phụ la
— dish made by deep-frying food in a light batter
