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• tenpura

語源

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.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈtɛmpʊɹə/
• (米国発音) IPA: /tɛmˈpu.ɹə/, /tɛmˈpɚ.ə/
• 韻: -ʊəɹə

名詞

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

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

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

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