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chanpuru

chanpuru noun: an Okinawan stir-fry dish, generally of tofu combined with a vegetable, meat, or fish.

chanpuru: an Okinawan stir-fry dish, generally of tofu combined with a vegetable, meat, or fish
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Noun

chanpuru (uncountable)

  1. An Okinawan stir-fry dish, generally of tofu combined with a vegetable, meat, or fish.
    • The smell of the pig indicated that it would make many flavourful dishes; a nice chanpuru with bitter goya and cubes of golden fried tofu cured in ocean water; a stewed dish of rajuti in awamori and soy spiced with ginger; […]2007, Darcy Tamayose, Odori: A Novel, page 83

Origin of chanpuru

Borrowed from Japanese チャンプルー (chanpurū), from Okinawan ちゃんぷるー (chanpurū), from Malay campur (“to mix”).

Questions about chanpuru

What does chanpuru mean?
Chanpuru means an Okinawan stir-fry dish, generally of tofu combined with a vegetable, meat, or fish.
What part of speech is chanpuru?
Chanpuru is a noun.

Words near chanpuru in the dictionary

  1. Chanoffs
  2. chanop
  3. chanops
  4. chanoyu
  5. chanpon
  6. chanpuru
  7. chanquo
  8. chanquos
  9. chans
  10. Chanse
  11. chanslash

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