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naan

naan

4 3.0
A soft flatbread baked in a clay oven and served with Indian dishes
  • noun
  • /nɑːn/
translation icon : naan
  • The restaurant served warm naan straight from the tandoor oven.
  • naan bread
  • garlic naan
  • chicken naan

Chicken tikka masala and some garlic naan.

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Examples

  • Later that fall, we spent a lunch hour sampling a variety of Indian foods, including naan bread, pakora, and burfi.

    Academic text (2007)

  • Rather than rice, it's accompanied by naan.

    Pivot: Paying it Forward (2021)

  • And we also serve it with naan and it's so good.

  • Working off all that naan I ate for lunch feels good.

    Kara and Nate

  • I went for the naan.

    I Give It a Year (2013)

  • When did you start eating naan?

    The Other Woman (2014)

  • I'm about to try my first naan in India.

  • Did you go for the rice or the naan?

    I Give It a Year (2013)

  • Place naan on a baking sheet.

    Blog text (1)

  • I had naan bread and spinach dip.

Synonyms

nan
vsnaan
1 7.4

A soft oven-baked flatbread from India

is the identical term but written with a double a spelling variant

How Thick

naan
4 3.0
pita
17 2.0
tortilla
29 2.4
chapati
1 5.9
rice paper
2 3.9

Surface Forms

naan singular
naans plural

Etymology

The word naan comes from the Persian word nān, which simply means 'bread'. It came into English from South Asia for the soft, oven-baked flatbread often cooked in a clay oven, so naan today means the warm flatbread you eat with curry.