teem̧bura
Marshallese
editPronunciation
edit- (phonetic) IPA(key): [tˠɛːmbˠurʷɑ], (enunciated) [tˠɛɛmˠ pˠurʷɑ]
- (phonemic) IPA(key): /tˠɛjɛmˠpˠirʷæɰ/
- Bender phonemes: {teyem̧birʷah}
Etymology 1
editBorrowed 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]
Alternative forms
editNoun
editteem̧bura (M.O.D.: teeṃbura)
- fish, basted in flour and deep-fried
- tempura
Verb
editteem̧bura (M.O.D.: teeṃbura)
Etymology 2
editNoun
editteem̧bura (M.O.D.: teeṃbura)
Verb
editteem̧bura (M.O.D.: teeṃbura)
- (vulgar, euphemistic) to have illicit sexual relations
References
edit- ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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