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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A flat, leavened bread of northwest India, made of wheat flour and baked in a tandoor.

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  • noun A type of round, flat bread baked in a tandoor popular in South and Central Asian cuisine.

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  • noun leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India; usually shaped like a teardrop

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Hindi nān, bread, from Persian, ultimately from Old Persian *nagna, naked, bare (probably from being baked uncovered in an oven rather than covered in ash); see nogw- in Indo-European roots.]

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From Hindustani नान / نان (nān), from Persian نان (nān), from Middle Persian 𐭭𐭠𐭭 (nān, "bread").

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