naan

naan or nan  (nän, nn)

n.

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

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

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naan [nɑːn]

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(Cookery) another name for nan bread

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naan - leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India; usually shaped like a teardrop nan bread, breadstuff, staff of life - food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked