チャンプルー

Japanese

Alternative spellings
ちゃんぷるう ちゃんぷるー

チャンプルー (chanpurū): a plate of goya chanpuru.

Alternative forms

• チャンプル (chanpuru), ちゃんぷる (chanpuru)

Etymology

Borrowed from Okinawan ちゃんぷるー, in turn from Indonesian campur (“to mix multiple things together”). First appears in Japanese texts from the mid-1960s.

Superficially similar, but probably not directly related, to adjective ちゃんぽん (chanpon, “mixed together”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t͡ɕã̠mpɯ̟ɾɯ̟ː]

Noun

チャンプルー • (chanpurū) 

1. chanpuru (an Okinawan stir fry dish)

References

• Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Further reading

• チャンプルー page at Kotobank (in Japanese)
• ちゃんぷるー page at Kotobank (in Japanese)
• ちゃんぷるう page at Kotobank (in Japanese)