- naan
- nounleavened bread baked in a clay oven in India; usually shaped like a teardrop• Syn: ↑nan• Hypernyms: ↑bread, ↑breadstuff, ↑staff of life
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noun or nan \\ˈnän, ˈnan\ (-s)Etymology: Hindi + Urdu + Persian nān bread; Hindi + Urdu nān, from Persian; akin to Baluchi nayan bread, Sogdian nyny: a round or oblong flat leavened bread especially of the Indian subcontinent* * *
a type of flat bread from India and Central Asia* * *
a kind of Indian flatbread, also popular in Pakistan and parts of Asia. The bread has a teardrop shape that comes from being cooked on the side of a clay tandoor oven.╂[< Hindi, Urdu nān < Persian]* * *
n. variant spelling of nan* * *
(also nan) /ˈnɑːn/ noun [count, noncount]* * *
= ↑nan 2* * *
naanvar. nan3.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.