Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A flat, leavened bread of northwest India, made of white flour and baked in a tandoor.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India; usually shaped like a teardrop
Etymologies
- From Hindustani नान / نان (nān), from Persian نان (nān), from Middle Persian 𐭭𐭠𐭭 (nān, "bread"). (Wiktionary)
- Hindi nān, bread, from Farsi, ultimately from Old Persian *nagna, naked, bare (probably from being baked uncovered in an oven rather than covered in ash). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“That garlic in this naan is in the dough, so there is a nice light flavor of it throughout the bread.”
“The ultimate temptation was this olive-onion naan from the Cooker, using this recipe from Evil Jungle Prince.”
“I believe traditional naan is simply kneaded with yeast and allowed to rise naturally, but here, some baker's yeast is added to speed the process along.”
“I’ve eaten at Curry Dreams a few times, and I always feel that their naan is the high point of the meal.”
“This time I made the family wait while I snapped a few photos!), so even though naan is our favorite, I did not want to make it as I wanted to challenge myself.”
“She didn’t give me a choice, so I don’t know what the naan is like.”
“I wanted a griddle baked bread since the naan was a simulated clay oven bread and I did not feel like deep frying anything, so that left griddle breads.”
“And honestly if it had not been for the chapatti (which I would never again make on a weeknight due to all the rolling out — naan, which is quickly stretched by hand and oh-so-much tastier in my humble opinion, is a better choice by far) I think this dish would have come together fairly quickly and painlessly.”
“The naan roll is practically the same thing, stuffed into a large slice of naan, which is baked against the wall of a tandoori oven right there behind the counter.”
“But BoingBoing readers are a different bunch: you see aliens in naan.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘naan’.
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food collection
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WF - palindromes
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Curry
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a few favorite foods
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Wonderful bread
baguette, bialy, pumpernickel, boule, brioche, challah, chapati, cornbread, dosa, mantou, flatbread, focaccia and 102 more...
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Jamaican Glossary
The liner notes that accompany Papa San's dancehall album God & i include this thoughtful list of Jamaican-to-American translations, to aid in understanding what the heck he's saying in each song.
yah, yeh, yuy, woulda, wort, wid, wi, wes', wen, whey, wau, wanda and 151 more...
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A Crumb Of Comfort
Types of bread & breadmaking terms. Mainly I'm looking for plain or savoury breads but I'll accept the sweet-ish ones as long as they are more bread than cake :-)
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vocabulary
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Allographic Homophones
Words that can be pronounced identically but are spelled differently. I've started with unusual or extensive sets. In some of these sets, no one speaker would pronounce them all the same. I've trie...
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Professional Scrabble Lexicon (TWL)
A myriad of game-changing words every Scrabble addict must have in his arsenal.
Keep in mind that these are all tried-and-true feasibly playable words selected for their handiness, i.e...paragon, pignora, ganef, suttee, origan, ohia, aioli, abasement, lehr, mho, tallow, harelike and 843 more...
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Food
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spaghetti, yogurt, muesli, rarebit, wheat, cream, cheese, pumpkin, custard, couscous, oats, sausage and 237 more...
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Isograms
Words with each letter repeated the same number of times. The pattern of repetition is tagged: 1212, 1221, 121122, 122121, 121233, 122133, 123123, 123132, 123213, 123231, 123312, 123321, 12123434, ...
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Permutations
There are 17576 different sequences of three letters (26 x 26 x 26). How many of them occur in words? General rules of engagement: mononyms only, lower case preferred to upper case, short preferred...
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Rare letter combos: double-vowel (*aa...
aa, radii, skiing, vacuum, continuum, aardvark, baa, taxiing, alibiing, naan, bazaar, denarii and 1 more...
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Book learnin'
New-to-me words I learned from reading.
scouse, harami, kolba, jinn, shahnai, dohol, sahib, tahamul, hijab, gari, bia, dokhtar and 37 more...
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The Kite Runner
laaf, naan, zakat, hadj, namaz, mewling, kaka, agha, trepidation, watan, kasseef, chapan and 3 more...
Tweets
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