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roti

roti

2 3.9
A round thin bread made from whole wheat served with curries
  • noun
  • /ˈroʊti/
translation icon : roti
  • For dinner, we had chicken curry and fresh roti made with whole wheat flour.
  • roti bread

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Examples

  • Serve with boiled rice or roti.

    Blog text (16)

  • We dine at Acajou on mahi-mahi roti in a vinegar sauce.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Pass me the roti, Ma.

    Material (2012)

  • I hear your chicken roti is delicious.

    Blog text (13)

  • A little bit of flour for roti, and we ate a whole meal.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • One lunch hour, a mother cooked an Indian bread called roti with the students; she also showed them how to put on a sari.

    Academic text (2007)

  • How do you make muli ki roti?

    The Householder (1963)

  • The wives cooked chicken curry, roti (bread), and other Punjabi dishes, and dinner guests were frequent.

    Academic text (1993)

  • At the restaurant, I ordered my favorite dish, which always comes with warm roti on the side.

  • During the festival, families gathered to share homemade roti and enjoy traditional food.

Synonyms

chapati
vsroti
1 5.9

A thin round flatbread from India and nearby countries cooked on a hot pan

is broader covering similar unleavened breads across South Asia and the Caribbean
chapatti
vsroti
  • UK
5.6

A thin, round bread made without yeast and cooked on a hot pan

is the same in meaning but written with an alternate spelling

How Soft

naan
4 3.0
roti
2 3.9
chapati
1 5.9
piki
  • US
9.9

Surface Forms

roti singular
rotis plural

Etymology

Roti comes from the Hindi word rotī, which simply means 'bread' and was used for the round flat breads cooked on a hot surface. So thinking of a simple round bread will help you remember roti as the thin, unleavened flatbread served with many South Asian meals.