naan or nan (nän, n n)n. A flat, leavened bread of northwest India, made of white flour and baked in a tandoor. [Hindi n  n, bread, from Farsi, 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.] |
naan [nɑːn]
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(Cookery) another name for nan bread
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| Noun | 1. | naan - leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India; usually shaped like a teardrop bread, breadstuff, staff of life - food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked |
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