teem̧būra

Etymology
Borrowed from, from , ultimately from. Different dictionaries link two different original terms:
 * or, third-person present singular or imperative tense of , from 🇨🇬.
 * , from, plural of . When Portuguese explorers (mostly Jesuit missionaries) arrived in Japan, they abstained from eating beef, pork, and poultry during the , 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.

Noun

 * 1) fish, basted in flour and deep-fried
 * 2) tempura

Verb

 * 1) to cook food tempura-style