naan

See also: nån and na'an

Contents

English

Alternative forms

• nan

Etymology

From Hindi नान (nān)/Urdu نان‎ (nān), from Persian نان‎ (nān), from Middle Persian LHMA (nān, “bread, food”).

Noun

naan (plural naans)

Naan

1. A type of round, flat bread baked in a tandoor popular in South and Central Asian cuisine.

Translations

flat bread

• Arabic: نَان‎ m (nān)
• Bengali: নান (nan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 饢 (zh), 馕 (zh) (náng)

• Finnish: naan-leipä
• Hindi: नान (hi) (nān)
• Japanese: ナン (ja) (nan)
• Korean: 난 (ko) (nan)
• Marathi: नान m (nān)

• Pashto: نان‎ (nān)
• Persian: نان‎ (fa) (nân)
• Portuguese: naan (pt) m
• Russian: наа́н (ru) m (naán), нан (ru) m (nan), нон (ru) m (non)
• Swedish: naanbröd (sv) n
• Tajik: нон (tg) (non)
• Tamil: நான் (ta) (nāṉ)
• Urdu: نان‎ (nān)
• Uyghur: نان‎ (ug) (nan)

Anagrams

• A.A.N.N., Anna, Nana, anna, na-na, nana

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Portuguese

Noun

naan m (uncountable)

1. naan (Asian type of flat bread)

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Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian nān. Compare English no/none.

Article

naan m

1. No; not a/an; not any

Derived terms

• goarnaan

See also

• neen