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Yes. The word tempura is a Scrabble US word. The word tempura is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word tempura is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

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7-letter words (1 found)

TEMPURA,

6-letter words (5 found)

EMPART,MATURE,TAMPER,UPRATE,UPTEAR,

5-letter words (25 found)

APERT,APTER,ARMET,ERUPT,MATER,MPRET,MUTER,PAREU,PATER,PEART,PETAR,PRATE,PRUTA,RAMET,REMAP,TAMER,TAPER,TAUPE,TRAMP,TRAPE,TREMA,TRUMP,TURME,UPTER,URATE,

4-letter words (57 found)

APER,ARET,ARUM,EMPT,MARE,MART,MATE,MAUT,MEAT,META,MURA,MURE,MUTE,PARE,PART,PATE,PATU,PEAR,PEAT,PERM,PERT,PRAM,PRAT,PRAU,PREM,PUER,PUMA,PURE,RAMP,RAPE,RAPT,RATE,RATU,REAM,REAP,RUME,RUMP,TAME,TAMP,TAPE,TAPU,TARE,TARP,TEAM,TEAR,TEMP,TEPA,TERM,TRAM,TRAP,TREM,TRUE,TUMP,TURM,UMRA,UPTA,UREA,

3-letter words (56 found)

AME,AMP,AMU,APE,APT,ARE,ARM,ART,ATE,AUE,EAR,EAT,EAU,EMU,ERA,ERM,ETA,MAE,MAP,MAR,MAT,MET,MEU,MUT,PAM,PAR,PAT,PEA,PER,PET,PRE,PUR,PUT,RAM,RAP,RAT,REM,REP,RET,RUE,RUM,RUT,TAE,TAM,TAP,TAR,TAU,TEA,TUM,TUP,UME,UMP,URE,URP,UTA,UTE,

2-letter words (20 found)

AE,AM,AR,AT,EA,EM,ER,ET,MA,ME,MU,PA,PE,RE,TA,TE,UM,UP,UR,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 165 words from tempura according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of tempura

tempura

Alternative forms

  • tenpura

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtɛmpʊɹə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /tɛmˈpu.ɹə/, /tɛmˈpɚ.ə/
  • Rhymes: -ʊəɹə

Noun

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

Translations

References

Cebuano

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: tem‧pu‧ra
  • IPA(key): /temˈpuɾa/, [t̪ɪmˈpu.ɾ̪ʌ]

Noun

tempura

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

Finnish

Etymology

From Japanese 天麩羅 (てんぷら, tenpura).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tempura

  1. tempura

Declension

Further reading

  • “tempura”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Indonesian

Etymology

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”).
  • 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.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /təm.pu.ra/
  • Hyphenation: têm‧pu‧ra

Noun

tempura

  1. (cooking) A Japanese dish made by deep-frying vegetables, seafood, or other foods in a light batter.

References

Further reading

  • “tempura” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /temˈpu.ra/
  • Rhymes: -ura
  • Hyphenation: tem‧pù‧ra

Noun

tempura m or f (invariable)

  1. tempura
    Hypernym: frittura

Anagrams

  • permuta, premuta

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 天麩羅 (てんぷら, tenpura), from Portuguese, from Latin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɛmˈpu.ra/
  • Rhymes: -ura
  • Syllabification: tem‧pu‧ra

Noun

tempura f

  1. tempura

Declension

Further reading

  • tempura in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • tempurá (Brazil)

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -uɾɐ
  • Hyphenation: tem‧pu‧ra

Noun

tempura f (plural tempuras)

  1. European Portuguese standard form of tempurá.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 天麩羅 (てんぷら, tenpura), from Portuguese, ultimately from Latin. See above for more.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /temˈpuɾa/ [t̪ẽmˈpu.ɾa]
  • Rhymes: -uɾa
  • Syllabification: tem‧pu‧ra

Noun

tempura f (plural tempuras)

  1. tempura

Adjective

tempura m or f (masculine and feminine plural tempuras)

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

Further reading

  • “tempura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Tagalog

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /temˈpuɾa/, [tɛmˈpu.ɾɐ]
  • Hyphenation: tem‧pu‧ra

Noun

tempura (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒᜋ᜔ᜉᜓᜇ)

  1. tempura (Japanese dish)

Further reading

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

Source: wiktionary.org